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About the Role

The Commercial & Supplier Manager will develop and implement scalable supplier, tendering, contract management, and commercial delivery models for Boldyn's UK&I delivery organization. This role focuses on building a high-performing supplier ecosystem for various infrastructure deployments, emphasizing supplier strategy, performance, commercial governance, and long-term partner development to create fewer, higher-performing suppliers aligned with Boldyn's objectives.

Responsibilities

Build a controlled supplier base with sufficient competition and capacity to support scaling, defining clear scopes for viable supplier selection and utilization.
Manage the onboarding and integration of various delivery partners, ensuring commercial, contractual, and operational alignment.
Collaborate with Boldyn Procurement to align supplier engagement, onboarding, tendering, contract management, and performance processes with approved governance and standards.
Ensure supplier commercial models, scopes, technical expectations, workmanship standards, and delivery obligations are aligned with Build Compliance Manager requirements.
Develop stronger long-term supplier relationships and partnership approaches aligned with operational, commercial, and delivery objectives.
Support supplier performance management, benchmarking, and continuous improvement across delivery activities.
Define, own, and continuously improve Boldyn’s delivery governance standards, aligned with business objectives and regulatory obligations.
Establish and maintain delivery stage-gates and control points.
Ensure consistent adoption of delivery documentation and controls.
Act as the central point of expertise for delivery process and standards across various network types.
Ensure governance standards support bid/pre-sales delivery planning.
Familiarize with Boldyn Procurement practices, guidelines, contract formats, and approved routes to market.
Collaborate with the delivery team to define required services, supplier types, and contractor models.
Develop appropriate Statements of Work (SOWs) in a QS-style format.
Work with stakeholders to ensure SOWs accurately reflect technical, build, commissioning, commercial, and delivery requirements.
Develop SOW structures covering various delivery packages.
Develop detailed schedules of rates and associated guidance documentation.
Support Boldyn Procurement through the tendering exercise, ensuring scopes, supplier categories, and commercial structures are fit for purpose.
Develop and maintain Boldyn’s delivery-side commercial framework.
Ensure contract sum templates are supported by clear commercial instructions for auditable and predictable supplier cost submissions.
Act as the principal QS function for the Delivery organization and develop the commercial capability of the wider Delivery team.
Lead the resolution of supplier cost disputes, pricing anomalies, and contractual commercial disagreements.
Support benchmarking and commercial comparison of suppliers, trades, delivery models, and routes to market.
Ensure supplier scopes, technical expectations, workmanship standards, and delivery obligations remain aligned.
Support supplier alignment to Boldyn delivery standards, governance principles, and operational readiness expectations.
Ensure clear definition of supplier roles, responsibilities, and commercial boundaries.
Support efficient working relationships between suppliers and internal departments.
Promote repeatable and scalable supplier delivery approaches.
Develop supplier guidance, onboarding documentation, commercial templates, and supporting delivery documentation.
Support the rollout and adoption of standard commercial and supplier management approaches.
Identify commercial inefficiencies, supplier pain points, and recurring delivery issues for lessons learned.
Improve commercial awareness within Delivery teams regarding supplier pricing, contract sums, variations, and final accounts.
Promote stronger commercial discipline, supplier accountability, and long-term partnership models.

Requirements

Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
Experience within telecoms, wireless, digital infrastructure, construction, or engineering delivery environments.
Strong commercial and QS capability, including schedules of rates, contract sums, cost build-ups, benchmarking, variations, final accounts, and supplier commercial management.
Demonstrable experience developing and managing supplier, subcontractor, and outsourced delivery arrangements across complex delivery environments.
Strong understanding of tendering, procurement, contract management, and commercial governance principles.
Good understanding of telecoms and digital infrastructure delivery, including DAS, Wi-Fi, fibre, private networks, M&E, and associated build activities.
Full UK driving licence and vehicle ownership.
Professional membership or qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Procurement, or a related discipline (Desirable).
Experience working with System Integrators, Principal Contractors, M&E contractors, specialist trades, and multi-disciplinary delivery partners (Desirable).
Experience developing commercial frameworks, supplier onboarding models, schedules of rates, and standardized contract sum approaches (Desirable).
Experience supporting large-scale telecoms, infrastructure, transport, venue, utility, or construction programmes (Desirable).
Experience developing delivery teams' commercial capability, including contract sum reviews, variations, final accounts, and supplier performance management (Desirable).

Skills

Supplier Strategy
Supplier Performance Management
Commercial Governance
Contract Management
Partner Development
Quantity Surveying (QS)
Schedules of Rates
Contract Sum Structures
Cost Build-ups
Benchmarking
Variations
Final Accounting
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Tendering
Procurement
Scope Development
Supplier Onboarding
Relationship Management
Risk Management
Change Control
Commercial Negotiation

Location

Work Type

Flexible working opportunities
Extensive travel across the UK

Experience Level

Professional

Education Level

Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline
Professional membership or qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Procurement, or a related discipline (Desirable)

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities
Parental leave with up to 20 weeks paid at full salary
Holiday allowance starting at 25 days rising with length of service
4 days off each year to volunteer

About the Company

At Boldyn Networks, we’re reimagining the future of interconnectivity. Our network solutions are solving some of tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We are one team across the globe. Always listening. Learning. We value different perspectives and challenge each other to be our best. Here, you can change lives today and create a better tomorrow.
We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large-scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.

Equal Opportunity

Diversity recognises the ways we differ. Our backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. What makes us unique. And it’s important to us, to our future. To build a workforce that’s representative of the societies we serve. So that we can listen, learn and understand how to solve our customers’ problems in the smartest ways possible.
We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.