Commercial Leader

We’re looking for a Commercial Lead to shape and deliver capital programmes that support Heathrow’s long-term strategy. You’ll act as a trusted commercial partner to senior stakeholders, leading end-to-end procurement and contract management, providing constructive challenge to business cases and investment decisions, and ensuring strong value for money, cost certainty and risk management.

Requirements

• Lead end-to-end procurement and contract management activity across capital programmes, ensuring robust procurement and commercial strategies are developed and executed to deliver value for money, cost certainty and risk mitigation.
• Provide independent and constructive commercial challenge to business cases, delivery strategies and investment decisions, identifying opportunities to optimise value, manage change and reduce commercial and delivery risk.
• Act as a trusted commercial partner to programme, engineering, delivery and finance teams, ensuring procurement and contract decisions are aligned with long-term strategic objectives and portfolio priorities.
• Proactively engage the external market, building strong supplier and industry relationships to understand emerging delivery models, technology, innovation and best practice, and embed these insights into procurement strategies and programme delivery.
• Build, lead and develop a high-performing commercial team, capable of responding effectively to project complexity, scope change and market volatility, while maintaining a strong focus on benefits realisation, affordability and value for money.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent benefits
• Performance-based annual bonuses
• Longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans
• Generous annual leave allowances
• Market-leading pensions
• Family friendly policies
• Access to private health insurance
• Wellbeing tools
• Learning and development opportunities