Netmore UK Commercial Manager
Position Summary
The UK Commercial Manager is accountable for protecting and enabling Netmore UK’s commercial position across client and supplier engagements. The role provides end-to-end commercial oversight from tender and negotiation through contract mobilisation, change control, delivery assurance, risk management and close-out.
It requires a strong blend of contract expertise, delivery awareness, financial discipline and stakeholder management, ensuring that commercial commitments are understood, governed, delivered and evidenced across the business.
Role Purpose: To ensure contractual obligations, delivery plans, supplier arrangements, financial controls and commercial risks are aligned, actively managed and escalated early — so that Netmore can deliver confidently, avoid avoidable exposure and support sustainable business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Contract ownership and governance
- Lead and maintain oversight of UK client and supplier contractual agreements, ensuring commitments, obligations, assumptions and constraints are clearly understood across the business.
- Coordinate commercial input into contract drafting, negotiation, review and approval cycles, working closely with Legal, Finance, Delivery, Operations and senior stakeholders.
- Establish practical contract governance so that obligations, notices, deliverables, milestones, KPIs, SLAs, service credits, liquidated damages and acceptance criteria are tracked and actively managed.
Commercial risk and opportunity management
- Identify, assess and mitigate commercial, financial, contractual and operational risks that may impact delivery performance, margin, compliance or customer confidence.
- Create clear commercial risk positions for decision-making, including options, impacts, recommended mitigations, ownership and escalation routes.
- Identify optimisation opportunities, including contract improvements, supplier efficiencies, cost recovery, scope clarification and improved commercial controls.
Change control and scope management
- Own and govern formal change control processes for client and supplier agreements, ensuring changes are assessed for cost, time, risk, resource, technical and delivery impact before approval.
- Ensure scope changes, assumptions, dependencies and exclusions are documented, communicated and agreed through the correct governance route.
- Work with delivery teams to ensure commercial positions are translated into practical delivery actions and not left as purely contractual statements.
Client, supplier and stakeholder engagement
- Build strong working relationships with clients, suppliers and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted commercial point of contact and escalation route.
- Support supplier negotiations and performance conversations, ensuring supplier obligations align with Netmore’s delivery commitments and commercial risk appetite.
- Influence without direct authority across cross-functional teams by providing clear commercial guidance, balanced judgement and pragmatic recommendations.
Financial and delivery alignment
- Work with Finance and Delivery teams to ensure contract pricing, cost assumptions, purchase commitments, supplier charges, revenue triggers and commercial dependencies are understood and controlled.
- Support budgeting, forecasting and commercial reporting by providing accurate input on contractual commitments, exposure, change status, claims, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure commercial commitments are aligned with mobilisation plans, delivery milestones, operational readiness, service transition and ongoing support obligations.
Compliance, auditability and reporting
- Ensure adherence to applicable legal, regulatory, procurement, governance and internal approval requirements.
- Maintain accurate commercial records, decision logs, change control evidence, obligation trackers and contractual correspondence to support auditability and defensible decision-making.
- Prepare clear commercial status updates for senior stakeholders, including key risks, decisions required, commercial exposure, change pipeline, supplier issues and recommended next steps.
Core Accountabilities
Contract Governance
- What Good Looks Like: Obligations, risks, dependencies and commercial positions are visible, owned and actively managed.
- Typical Outputs / Evidence: Contract summaries, obligation trackers, governance packs, decision logs.
Commercial Controls
- What Good Looks Like: Change, cost, scope and supplier impacts are assessed before decisions are made.
- Typical Outputs / Evidence: Change assessments, commercial impact notes, approval packs, claim / recovery evidence.
Risk and Escalation
- What Good Looks Like: Material risks are identified early with options, owners and recommended actions.
- Typical Outputs / Evidence: Risk registers, escalation notes, mitigation plans, executive summaries.
Stakeholder Management
- What Good Looks Like: Legal, Finance, Delivery, Operations, clients and suppliers have a shared understanding of commitments and constraints.
- Typical Outputs / Evidence: Stakeholder updates, meeting inputs, action trackers, negotiation points.
Business Growth Support
- What Good Looks Like: New opportunities are commercially robust and delivery-aware before commitment.
- Typical Outputs / Evidence: Tender inputs, assumptions logs, pricing input, supplier commercial reviews.
Skills and Capabilities Required
Contract management and negotiation: Proven ability to review, negotiate and manage complex client and supplier agreements, with clear understanding of contractual obligations, risk allocation and commercial levers.
Commercial and financial acumen: Strong grasp of pricing models, cost structures, margin impact, payment milestones, service credits, LDs, KPIs, SLAs and commercial exposure.
Delivery-aware commercial judgement: Able to connect legal and commercial positions to real delivery impacts, including mobilisation, operations, supplier performance, dependencies and customer outcomes.
Risk identification and mitigation: Confident assessing financial, contractual and operational risk, then converting it into practical mitigation plans, escalation points and decision recommendations.
Legal and regulatory awareness: Comfortable working with Legal colleagues, interpreting contractual language and ensuring commercial activities follow governance, regulatory and compliance requirements.
Stakeholder and supplier relationship management: Able to build credibility with clients, suppliers and internal teams, manage escalations and influence outcomes without relying on formal authority.
Structured execution and attention to detail: Maintains accurate documentation, disciplined trackers, clear decision records and robust change control evidence.
Communication and senior-level reporting: Clear, concise and structured communicator who can tailor messaging by audience and present commercial status, risks and recommendations at senior level.
Ownership and proactivity: Takes ownership of issues, follows actions through to completion and actively looks for ways to improve commercial outcomes and reduce avoidable exposure.
Experience and Qualifications
- 3–5+ years’ relevant commercial, contract management, supplier management, procurement, delivery governance or equivalent experience.
- Experience working with both client-side and supplier-side contractual arrangements.
- Demonstrable experience supporting contract negotiation, commercial governance, change control, risk management and senior stakeholder reporting.
- Experience in IoT, telecoms, utilities, infrastructure, technology delivery or managed service environments would be beneficial.
- Formal legal, commercial, procurement, project management or finance-related qualifications are advantageous but not essential where equivalent experience can be demonstrated.
Success Measures
- Contractual obligations are clearly owned, tracked and discharged on time.
- Commercial risks, scope changes and supplier impacts are identified early and escalated with recommended actions.
- Client and supplier agreements support delivery outcomes and protect Netmore’s commercial position.
- Change controls are evidence-based, commercially assessed and progressed through the correct approval route.
- Senior stakeholders receive clear, timely and decision-ready commercial reporting.
- Commercial lessons learned are captured and used to strengthen future bids, negotiations and delivery governance.
What We’re Looking For
- A commercially astute, delivery-aware individual who can balance contractual discipline with practical business judgement.
- Confident working across functions and with senior stakeholders, including Legal, Finance, Delivery, Operations, clients and suppliers.
- A structured thinker who can turn strategy, risk and contractual obligations into clear, executable action plans.
- Someone comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities, dependencies and commercial positions need careful management.
- A proactive owner who takes initiative, communicates early and focuses on protecting delivery outcomes as well as commercial value.
Why Join Netmore?
Netmore is a global IoT operator focused on enabling real-world connected solutions. The UK Commercial Manager will play a key role in supporting commercial control, customer confidence and delivery success as the business grows.
This is an opportunity to operate at the centre of commercial decision-making, working across contract management, supplier governance, customer engagement, financial control and delivery assurance.
The role suits someone who wants to make a visible contribution, influence outcomes across the business and help shape robust commercial practices in a growing organisation.