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Location

Knutsford, Cheshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Nuclear Power is a fast paced, highly successful and growing operational business committed to working in partnership with our clients to contribute to the global need to achieve carbon net zero. We currently support projects and operations in the UK, France, South Africa and Poland.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Operational Commercial Manager to join a small, highly valued operational commercial team as part of a broader capability within Jacobs.

You will provide effective and compliant contracting support to the Nuclear Power business, to support in the delivery of the business plan, ensuring that work tendered and undertaken is on a sound commercial basis and in accordance with commercial policy to maximize profit to risk ratio.
The role is UK office based, reporting to the Nuclear Power Head of Commercial based in France, with a substantial degree of flexibility in office location. Some travel to other Jacobs’ or client’s offices, including France, is expected.

The role will provide commercial support to:

• Pre-contract commercial activities – Ensuring accurate and timely preparation of contract review documentation for presentation to approvers, ensuring the commercial robustness of proposals including reviewing contracts (ROMs, offers, NDA, pre-teaming agreements, etc.) and negotiating with clients.
• Post contract commercial management including building and updating Commercial Plans, sub-contracting, managing change and variations, and involvement in dispute resolution
• Reviewing and supporting various agreements such as JV’s, Consortiums, NDA’s, Bonds and Guarantees
• Ensuring Commercial Governance (DOA) and providing commercial guidance to the business
• Operational Reviews to assess the needs of the Business and Operational Teams for Commercial support.
• Attending Green Reviews to ensure all risks are covered before submitting an offer.
• Work hand-in-hand as business partner to the Legal team
• 360 Stakeholder management

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Bachelor’s degree and/or chartered status or equivalent
• Must be able to develop and maintain respectful & trusting working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in commercial/contract management with good understanding of:
  • Commercial Law
  • Contractual terms and conditions and other forms of commercial agreements
  • Drafting contracts and subcontracts
  • Good commercial judgment with the ability to understand, argue and negotiate conditions of contract.
  • Commercial risk management
  • Pricing principles
• Multi-task and adjust to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Work autonomously and manage own workload.
• Lead and take an active part in meetings and reviews.
• Work in a team environment in a pro-active and supportive manner.
• Willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team .

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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