DV Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager
Target Start Date: 27/10/2025 (ASAP
Target End Date: 27/04/2026 (six month contract)
Recruitment Type (Contractor or Temp): Contractor
Rate: Inside IR35
Location of role: Basingstoke (may also visit other sites)
Location requirement: Hybrid
Clearance Required: DV(required)
Working Pattern: Monday - Friday

The Commercial Manager will lead and manage post-contract management across contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual delivery obligations, risk mitigation, and value delivery aligned with strategic objectives.

This role acts as a bridge between legal, sales, delivery, procurement, and finance teams to ensure business objectives are met with minimal legal and contractual exposure.

Mandatory skills:

- Lead contract management and negotiation and statements of work in preparation for governance approval.
- Collaborate with internal teams to achieve strategic goals.
- Engage with L&C for support to manage delays to delivery.
- Maintain contract documentation and ensure compliance with governance policies.
- Create and manage templates for SOWs, change orders, and other agreements.
- Support BAU contract management activities.
- Deliver contractually required reporting and participate in customer meetings.
- Stay current on IT law, data protection (eg, GDPR), and commercial legislation.
- Support and develop members of the Contract Management team.
- Act in accordance with Legal and Commercial guidance.
- Ensure any contractual document (contract change or extension, relief or delay notice, or contract proposal) is reviewed and approved by the Legal & Commercial team in accordance with DOFA requirements.
- Engage support from and liaise closely with the Legal & Commercial team at the early stage of new contract or contract extension negotiations in order to agree negotiation strategy and key legal issues.
- Engage support Legal & Commercial during contract delivery regarding any contractual dispute or delay.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.