Job Description

The role holder will provide commercial and financial support for business cases and procurement cases for 3rd party renegotiation and renewals. This involves working with operations on in-life contract management and performance, ensuring alignment across the business units to drive optimal business decisions at Service Delivery level as well as providing the Full Fiber and Copper lens.

Key responsibilities

• A financial manager role, reporting directly to the C Level, SD Business Optimization.
• An excellent communicator, providing clear & concise reporting at exec level.
• In-life contract and partner management for 3rd party resource contracts, c. £100m p.a.
• Covering both desk and field operations.
• Future contract renewals / renegotiations.
• Management of minimum volume guarantees across all product areas to minimize financial risk.
• Transformation opportunities across 3rd party resourcing.
• Front door for procurement and contract management / change control.
• Secondary responsibility. As part of the wider Business Optimization team, have the ability to support the Resource Optimization roles for building and insight on capacity planning.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Pension scheme
• Share save scheme

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience of positively influencing business performance, by using data, commentary and analysis to inform decision making.
• An ability to communicate clearly & concisely. Telling the story of contractor performance to multiple non-finance audiences.
• Pragmatic team player, adept at holding others to account through a challenging and supportive style, whilst consistently delivering on their own commitments.
• An ability to manage multiple stakeholders and projects, working to tight deadlines.
• An ability to matrix-manage cross-business teams to complex and multi-phase solutions (across technology, commercial, product and process design, network design and build).
• Ability to manage ambiguity.
• Experience of mitigating risks, implanting best practice and following strict governance procedures.
• Advisor and coach to others both within own team and elsewhere, formulates their operational guidelines or in-depth knowledge and advises on specialist area .
• Qualified Accountant.