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About The Role

MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Commercial team with a Senior Commercial Manager/Commercial Director based at the Southern Water Region. The purpose of this role is to lead the frameworks next amp cycle. Managing a £100-150 million per year region, you will provide commercial support and leadership to projects/contracts and ensure that commercial discipline is maintained throughout the framework duration.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Planning: Develop and implement commercial strategies in line with company objectives.
  • Contract Management: Oversee contract negotiations, ensuring that contracts are in the best interests of MWHT.
  • Risk Management: Identify commercial risks and proactively mitigate them.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, suppliers, and internal teams.
  • Change Management : Identify contact change and proactively mitigate them.
  • Financial Oversight: Manage budgets, ensure cost efficiency, and drive profitability.
  • Team Leadership: Mentor, guide, and supervise the commercial team to achieve departmental goals.

About You

Essential 

  • Proven experience in a commercial management role, preferably within the water sector.
  • Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills
  • Proficient in contract management and risk assessment.
  •  Experience in a similar role with senior management responsibilities
  • Able to demonstrate strong leadership capability
  • Demonstrable client facing joint venture experience
  • Drive to establish and embed positive delivery within the Joint Venture organisation

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include - 

  • A competitive salary
  • Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
  • Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
  • Contribution Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

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