Commercial Intelligence Manager

Job Description

The Commercial Intelligence Manager is responsible for:

• Providing advice and support to the business on commercial issues to enhance National Highways capability as an informed and intelligent commercial client
• Providing support in evaluating and reporting the cost base, cost drivers and efficiency delivery across capital and revenue programmes within National Highways
• Collecting data (e.g. cost) and ensuring that it is relevant, timely and accurate
• Interpreting data and developing information, leading to intelligence that can be used to recommend improvements in performance and investment decisions
• Delivering analytical outputs to support various divisions across National Highways who rely on this information to make influential decisions
• Identifying and reporting opportunities for delivering increased and sustainable value for money, efficiency and delivery of key performance indicators
• Supporting the development and application of the end to end process required to support and deliver the Efficiency KPI and unit cost management

What youll be doing

• Mentoring Cost Intelligence Analysts and Senior Analysts as appropriate, and ensuring that they comply with all relevant health and safety policy and processes.
• Leading commercial work streams designed to enhance National Highways reputation as an informed and commercially intelligent client. This includes:
  • Detailed understanding of cost base and drivers
  • Intelligence relating to relationship between asset condition, asset characteristics, age and investment decision
  • Creation and demonstration of efficiency delivery
• Supporting the design and implementation of:
  • robust processes and systems for data capture and cost base reporting.
  • cost/data intelligence assurance, ensuring the quality of reporting withstands scrutiny internally and externally. end-to-end sub processes for cost intelligence, and reporting on opportunities for improving sustainable value for money and investment decisions.
• Maintaining robust processes for efficiency generation, delivery, assurance, governance and reporting
• Interpreting complex commercial data and identifying trends to draw reasonable conclusions based on robust evidence.
• Maintaining Unit Cost dashboards
• Support their team in the resolution of ad-hoc reporting requirements from programmes by converting complex data into simple to understand advice.
• Co-ordinating and reporting on cost activities
• Liaising with other members of the Cost Intelligence Team and other stakeholders to improve service to clients.
• Providing flexible business support, as may be required to deliver projects and work streams to time, quality and within budget.
• Expanding data intelligence to include sustainability and carbon initiatives that meet our aspirations towards netzero.

To be successful

• Studying for an appropriate professional qualification (preferably already having a degree)
• Commercial and financial management understanding
• Have a reasonable understanding of contracts within the construction sector (NEC4)
• Economic analysis understanding
• Process and system development experience
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Delivering commercial outcomes
• Advanced capability in data analytics
• Logical reasoning capability to manage and use data to inform decision making
• An awareness of operating software in a cloud based environment (e.g. Azure)

A bit about usTheres never been a better time to join our Commercial and Procurement team. Were a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. Youll be involved in ensuring that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our roadnetwork.