Senior Supplier Commercial Manager
Location: Commutable distance to Huddersfield whilst offering a flexible/hybrid working model
What’s in it for you
- Up to £80,000
- 10% bonus
- Work Life Smarter – our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
- Generous pension scheme starting at 6% rising to 10%
- A unique wellbeing programme that looks after the whole you
- Access to multiple learning platforms to support your individual development
- Active and diverse networks that build community, support wellbeing and advocate for change
- A comprehensive set of benefits including discounts on big brands, gymflex memberships and paid volunteering leave - see our full list of benefits here.
Plus, you’ll play an integral role in protecting the commercial value of Arqiva’s sites - a critical part of how we deliver for our customers.
Purpose
Accountabilities
- Own, develop and manage the in-life commercial relationship with some key suppliers
- Building a comprehensive understanding of all commercial arrangements and seeking ways to prevent margin erosion, improve cash flow, and increase efficiency.
- Understanding the contractual obligations for both the supplier and Arqiva and ensuring both parties adhere to these.
- Ensuring all deliverables are understood by the relevant Arqiva Teams and carrying out regular reviews both internally and with the supplier on the progress of these until completion.
- Monitoring performance against agreed KPI's, which will include the performance of subcontractors.
- Implement risk management processes to track, assess, and mitigate commercial risks.
- Working with Procurement to build a strong relationship with each supplier and provide support on contractual queries.
- Act as the key link between finance and commercial teams, ensuring alignment on commercial governance processes
- Working collaboratively with many different areas of the Business including Delivery, customer facing Commercial Management, Product, Legal, Finance, Procurement and Technology.
- Ensuring contractual obligations and deliverables are clearly understood and manage the delivery of these with the relevant internal Team.
- Carrying out monthly reviews with the Account Teams and suppliers to ensure that performance is in line with the commercial requirements.
- Ensuring risk mitigation measures are understood and monitored / implemented.
- Tracking of obligations, deliverables and supporting documentation including the asset register, audits, KPIs, and Service Level reporting
- Ensuring cost models are adhered to throughout contract lifecycle.
- Proactively seeking and then driving incremental revenue and margin activities through revenue growth and/or cost reduction.
Skills & Experience
- Demonstratable experience in dealing with commercial and contract management across a wide spectrum of activity.
- Proven leadership working with suppliers, both internally and externally.
- Strong decision making with the ability to balance conflicting priorities.
- Strong risk management skills, and able to identify the most appropriate mitigation actions to reduce exposure.
- Excellent communications at all levels and the ability to simplify complexity.
- Growth mindset, open to taking on new challenges and identifying and implementing business improvement activities.
- Team player, willing to share experience as well as coach and mentor colleagues.
- Must be an experienced Commercial Manager professional with a proven track record of success.
- Background in Utilities and/or Telco is desirable.
Why Arqiva:
We enable a switched-on world to flow. As the UK’s leader in TV and radio broadcast and the country’s top smart utilities platform, we are shaping the future of connectivity.
Our infrastructure delivers media and data exactly where they’re needed - whether that’s bringing TV and radio to your home or sending smart meter data to your utility provider. Our technology works quietly behind the scenes, connecting millions every day.
But it’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it. At Arqiva, you’ll find real connection: supportive teams, active colleague networks and plenty of ways to get involved and feel part of our community. We’ll give you the space and support to grow - whether that’s developing your skills, trying something new or taking on fresh challenges. And because there is more to life than work, our rewards and benefits are designed to support your wellbeing, your lifestyle and what matters most to you.
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
At Arqiva, we’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels valued, heard and empowered to succeed. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences, and we work hard to remove barriers so every colleague can thrive. If you need any adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected].
If this sounds like the right next step for you, we’d love to hear from you!
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Skills Required
- Substantial experience in structuring and managing highly complex commercial models and contracts
- Substantial experience in commercial management, contract management, or a related field
- Strong experience with commercial contracts and contract negotiations
- In-depth understanding of industry regulations and compliance requirements
- Ability to manipulate and analyse data to inform commercial decisions
- Effective negotiation skills, engaging at all organizational levels
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to draft contractual documents, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies
- Experience coordinating with legal teams and external lawyers
- Experience aligning commercial and finance teams on pricing governance and contract financials
What We Do
Arqiva is at the heart of the broadcast and utilities sectors in the UK and internationally, providing critical data, network and communications services. We work in partnership with our customers – major broadcasters and utilities like the BBC, ITV, Sky, Global, Bauer, Thames Water and Anglian Water – to meet everyone’s demand for information, content and entertainment and enabling a switched-on world to flow. We are the only supplier of national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting services in the UK, consistently delivering digital TV, analogue and digital radio to people in all four corners of the country. We distribute over 1,000 channels internationally using our fibre and satellite infrastructure. Our advanced, secure and dedicated networks are also supporting the management of critical data for a range of smart metering networks in the energy and water sectors.
