Commercial Manager

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000

Job description

The role of a Commercial Manager will be taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large and complex infrastructure commissions covering both private and public sector clients. Your role will be to ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added commercial management service.

You'll play a vital role in delivering Commercial Management commissions for our clients. The role will require the successful individual to be confident in liaising with and presenting to both clients and contractors. An attention to detail is essential, but with an ability to position commercial context around the detail that enables our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions is just as important.

The role will cover all aspects of commercial management throughout the whole project lifecycle from initial inception/ business case through to completion/ commissioning.

The Commercial Management Team is located across the UK and you will be based out of one of our regional offices to suit you such as London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh. You will provide Commercial Management Services across a wide range of sectors.

As a Senior Consultant, you will need to be flexible and able to adapt to different client requirements at short notice including working remotely, and happy to travel both throughout the UK and abroad in the pursuit of successful delivery. Travel may at times be frequent and could require time away from your base location.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Budget/ baseline development, aligned with our wider controls/ PMO teams, process development, estimation review and assurance, optioneering, inherent risk analysis, procurement/ tender review and assurance, life cycle costing, month end accruals and live forecasting, change and contingency management. Alignment with cost management team and commercial delivery.
• Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.
• Interfacing and engagement with project staff including cost, commercial and controls.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Supporting the production of close-out reports.
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.
• Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/locations nationally and internationally.
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.

Your knowledge, experience and skills need to include:

• Demonstrable experience of delivering service excellence to clients.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience in delivering cost and commercial activities.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and in fast-paced environment, and able to adapt and meet challenges as they develop during the delivery stage.
• Strong interpersonal skills will be required to communicate with a variety of stakeholders with varying levels of seniority and engagement.
• Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
• Drive performance standards and technical excellence through expert communication and effective use of the performance management process and AECOM technical practice networks.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with clients, take every opportunity to uphold and increase the profile of the firm as a provider of professional, premium quality services to the construction industry.
• Actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects.
• Be aware of and develop marketing opportunities and where appropriate bring to the attention of Directors and the Business Development Department, in order that they may assist in following up potential leads enabling the development of new business.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Good working knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 suite of contracts and associated.
• Experience of undertaking commercial management as part of integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative teams.
• Experience of working as part of a project controls/ PMO process and commercial delivery.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a colocation/secondment arrangement.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Professional memberships are an advantage but are not essential.
• Ability to obtain relevant security clearance is desired.