Head of Commercial Delivery – Supply Chain - Submarines at Rolls-Royce

Why join Rolls-Royce

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

What you will be doing:  

• Overall strategic responsibility for all contract and commercial activity across your portfolio within the overall Infrastructure MIP, ensuring the needs of the business are met whilst achieving RRSL commercial outcomes.
• Protect RRSL's commercial interests within your portfolio within the overall MIP.
• Provide commercial leadership across your respective portfolio to drive excellence in commercial delivery including budget management, cost and financial management, contract management, dispute avoidance and commercial performance management for RRSL subcontracts.
• Own and manage the commercial relationship with suppliers within your portfolio to support successful commercial delivery. You'll be the primary point of contact for all commercial matters relating to your portfolio and work closely and proactively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Analyse, and provide management information and reports to identify trends and address commercial and contract issues proactively. Coach and support programme and project managers and their teams on the application and interpretation of commercial issues.
• Lead and manage the Commercial Leads who are accountable for project commercial leadership and management of project commercial delivery teams.
• Promote RRSL's reputation through building visible and effective supplier partnerships within your allocated programme.
• Providing commercial and contract expertise, identifying needs, understanding priorities and potential threats to success of the allotted part of the programme, so that mitigation is defined in order to support better delivery.
• Working alongside the Heads of Projects and Programme Executives within the Infrastructure MIP as an integral senior member of the leadership team.
• Drive supplier performance in delivery against contract scope and deliverables to meet RRSL safety, quality, cost and programme requirements.
• Ensure subcontract costs incurred for you portfolio within the overall MIP is appropriate, attributable, reasonable (AAR) in accordance with Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCR), and drive compliance with commercial policies and management procedures.
• Lead commercial governance within your portfolio, to ensure compliance with RRSL policy and procedure - to drive predictable commercial delivery.
• Develop subcontract agreements from first principles involving negotiating with suppliers and senior stakeholder to ensure fit for purpose subcontracts.

Position Qualifications:  

• Expert knowledge of NEC contracts, and specifically application of Defined Cost contracts.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of leading and managing commercial teams including matrix management at a senior level.
• Significant major programme experience: nuclear experience is desirable, but wider infrastructure experience is also acceptable (e.g. utilities, transport, energy)
• Capable of leading, building and motivating a diverse workforce to deliver strong and consistent commercial performance, with the ability to manage delivery through large project teams.
• Experience to make decisions effectively, selecting the option most likely to mitigate commercial threats and realise efficiency opportunities to achieve sustainable development.
• Experience of forming and maintaining partnering arrangements in a commercial delivery environment.
• Able to establish and exemplify industry standards for integrity of commercial delivery in the use of government funding (Ministry of Defence).
• Relevant professional qualification RICS, ICES, ICE or equivalent.