Commercial Manager
About You
Do you enjoy using your commercial expertise where getting value for money really matters?
Are you someone who believes the best outcomes are shaped early before contracts are even signed?
Have you worked with NEC contracts (especially NEC4 PSC and ECC) and feel confident navigating complex, multi-stakeholder environments?
If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
You might bring:
- Solid experience with NEC contracts, from early procurement design through to contract award
- A track record of shaping procurement approaches and managing commercial risk in complex programmes
- The ability to negotiate confidently and proportionately, protecting client interests while building positive, collaborative supplier relationships
- Experience supporting project teams with clear, high-quality commercial advice and sound judgement
If your experience is a bit different but you can see how you’d add value, please don’t rule yourself out—we’d really like to hear from you.
About The Role
In this role, you’ll help shape how we approach commercial strategy and procurement across consultancy and construction packages.
This includes making sure routes to market, contract choices and risk allocation support the overall programme and deliver value for money.
You’ll:
- Lead on commercial and procurement strategies, aligning them with programme goals and governance
- Provide commercial input across the full project lifecycle from early market engagement through to delivery
- Support approaches like two-stage tendering and early contractor involvement to drive better outcomes
- Draft, review and assure NEC and public sector contracts (including bespoke terms), making sure they are clear, consistent and fit for purpose
- Act as a trusted advisor to project teams, helping navigate complex commercial and contractual challenges
- Encourage a collaborative, fair and transparent approach balancing risk management with strong supplier relationships
We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification.
If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Schedule:
Application closing date: 1st June 2026
Sifting date: 3rd June 2026
Interviews: w/c 22nd June 2026
(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge Pension Rates with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours.
Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with.
We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds.
Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK.
By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values.
We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.
To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers.
This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution.
By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000.
We are happy to support you through the process.
- Start: 08/05/2026
- Rate: £45,286 - £50,318
- Location: Mansfield,England
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Public_Sector
- Recruiter: The Coal Authority
- Contact: Admin The Coal Authority
- Tel: 01623 637149
- Email: to view click here
- Reference: 0621
- Posted: 2026-05-08 11:21:05 -
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