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Salary: Up to £75,000 + £5,000 car allowance + bonus

Location: Manchester (hybrid)

Occasional UK travel

About the job

Arguile Search is partnering with a leading global organisation to recruit a Commercial Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded professional looking to join a collaborative team where they can influence business decisions, negotiate complex agreements and play a key role in commercial strategy.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll provide commercial guidance across a portfolio of high-value contracts, ensuring commercial risk is effectively managed while supporting business growth.

The Role

Key responsibilities include:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Providing commercial and contractual advice to senior stakeholders.
• Managing commercial and contractual risk throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Supporting commercial strategy across new and existing business opportunities.
• Negotiating favourable commercial terms while protecting the business.
• Influencing business decisions through sound commercial judgement.
• Building strong relationships across the business and with external customers.

About You

We’re keen to speak with candidates who have:

• Around 5+ years’ experience in Commercial or Contract Management.
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience.
• A solid understanding of commercial and contractual risk.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive, ambitious approach and the ability to work autonomously.
• Experience within Facilities Management, Outsourcing, IT Services, Software, Defence or Professional Services would be highly advantageous. A Law degree is beneficial but not essential.

What’s on Offer?

• Up to £75,000 salary
• £5,000 Car Allowance
• 10–15% Annual Bonus
• Hybrid working
• Manchester office
• Occasional UK travel
• Excellent career progression within a global organisation

If you’re looking for a role where you can take ownership, influence commercial outcomes and continue developing your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or email me via brooke.bygrave@arguilesearch.com for a confidential discussion.

Salary: Up to £75,000 + £5,000 car allowance + bonus

Location: Leeds (hybrid)

Occasional UK travel

About the job

Arguile Search is partnering with a leading global organisation to recruit a Commercial Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded professional looking to join a collaborative team where they can influence business decisions, negotiate complex agreements and play a key role in commercial strategy.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll provide commercial guidance across a portfolio of high-value contracts, ensuring commercial risk is effectively managed while supporting business growth.

The Role

Key responsibilities include:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Providing commercial and contractual advice to senior stakeholders.
• Managing commercial and contractual risk throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Supporting commercial strategy across new and existing business opportunities.
• Negotiating favourable commercial terms while protecting the business.
• Influencing business decisions through sound commercial judgement.
• Building strong relationships across the business and with external customers.

About You

We’re keen to speak with candidates who have:

• Around 5+ years’ experience in Commercial or Contract Management.
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience.
• A solid understanding of commercial and contractual risk.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive, ambitious approach and the ability to work autonomously.
• Experience within Facilities Management, Outsourcing, IT Services, Software, Defence or Professional Services would be highly advantageous. A Law degree is beneficial but not essential.

What’s on Offer?

• Up to £75,000 salary
• £5,000 Car Allowance
• 10–15% Annual Bonus
• Hybrid working
• Leeds office
• Occasional UK travel
• Excellent career progression within a global organisation

If you’re looking for a role where you can take ownership, influence commercial outcomes and continue developing your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or email me via brooke.bygrave@arguilesearch.com for a confidential discussion.

Competitive Salary + 10% car allowance + up to 20% bonus

Location: London (hybrid – 8 days per month in office)

About the Role

We’re recruiting on behalf of a major organisation delivering critical national infrastructure in the energy sector – underpinning services relied on by millions of people across the country. This role sits within their Contract & Supplier Management function, which owns every third-party contract relationship from award through to end of life.

This is a genuinely high-scale, high-impact opportunity: you’ll take ownership of the organisation’s most critical supplier contracts – each valued at £20m+ with an average lifecycle of around 10 years – and there’s a clearly defined path for career progression from here.

Important: this is a post-signature role. The contracts you’ll manage are already awarded, your focus is on leading changes, negotiations, disputes, and financial/risk governance throughout their life, not original tendering or procurement.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning complex, high-value supplier contracts critical to the organisation’s operations and security standards
• Managing end-to-end financial forecasting and governance across your contracts
• Leading and negotiating contract change and project requests, including extensions valued at £10m+
• Leading contract negotiations and dispute resolution throughout the contract lifecycle
• Building and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders, this is a relationship-driven role, not just a transactional one
• Driving continuous efficiencies and value-for-money improvements
• Maintaining rigorous contract documentation and audit trails, including detailed obligation tracking
• Identifying, logging, and mitigating risk across your contract portfolio

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience managing multiple contracts concurrently, each valued at £1m or more
• Genuine post-signature contract management experience – change control, amendments, extensions, and dispute resolution
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, you’ll be building relationships that last, not just closing out actions
• A proactive, self-starting approach – someone who spots opportunities and takes ownership rather than waiting to be asked
• Genuine personality and presence – this client wants someone with real energy and character, not just a strong CV
• Strong financial forecasting and governance experience across contracts
• Confident negotiation skills, particularly around contract changes and disputes
• Rigorous attention to documentation, compliance, and audit-trail detail
• Experience in a regulated sector (energy, utilities, telecoms, defense ect)

Why Apply

• Genuinely critical, large-scale infrastructure work with real national impact
• Career-defining contract scale, not small or peripheral agreements
• A clear, defined progression path from this role
• Strong package including a 10% car allowance and a bonus of up to 20%
• Hybrid pattern based in London

To Apply

Get in touch with me for a confidential conversation – caitlin.padayachi@arguilesearch.com

Rate: £500 per day inside IR35

Location: West London

Contract Duration: 3 months

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆

We are seeking an experienced Interim Procurement Manager to join a leading manufacturing business on an initial 3-month assignment.

This is a highly hands-on procurement role for someone who enjoys being close to the detail and getting things done. Reporting into the Strategic Indirect Procurement Director, you will be responsible for delivering day-to-day procurement activity across Capex, maintenance and repair.

The successful candidate will be self-sufficient, commercially strong and able to hit the ground running, with experience gained within a factory, manufacturing or production environment.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

• Take ownership of day-to-day procurement activity across Capex, maintenance and repair.
• Manage live sourcing projects from requirement through to supplier selection, negotiation and contract award.
• Work closely with factory, operations and maintenance stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver procurement solutions.
• Run RFQs, tenders and competitive sourcing exercises.
• Negotiate pricing, terms and commercial agreements with suppliers.
• Manage existing supplier relationships and resolve commercial or performance issues.
• Identify and deliver cost-saving opportunities across relevant categories.
• Support the delivery of procurement projects and capital investment requirements.
• Maintain accurate procurement records and provide updates on activity, savings and progress.
• Work closely with the Strategic Indirect Procurement Director to deliver the wider procurement agenda.
• Take ownership of tasks and projects with minimal supervision.

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂

We are looking for an experienced procurement professional who is comfortable doing the doing and can make an immediate impact.

𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲:

• Strong experience across Capex procurement.
• Proven category management and strategic sourcing experience.
• Experience working within a factory, manufacturing or production environment.
• Experience across maintenance and repair procurement.
• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Experience managing the full procurement process from requirement through to contract award.
• The confidence to work directly with operational and senior stakeholders.
• A highly autonomous, practical and delivery-focused approach.
• Pharmaceutical experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Previous interim experience would be beneficial.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲

This role would suit an experienced Procurement Manager / Senior Procurement Manager who is used to operating in a hands-on environment and doesn’t need a large team or extensive support around them.

You will be someone who can walk into an unfamiliar environment, understand what needs to be bought, engage the stakeholders, go to market, negotiate with suppliers and get the job done.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀:

Capex Procurement | Indirect Procurement | Category Management | Strategic Sourcing | Maintenance & Repair | Manufacturing | Factory Environment | Supplier Management | Negotiation | Contract Management

Please note: This role requires the successful candidate to be on-site five days per week and is inside IR35