Senior Commercial Manager
2 days ago
Hounslow
Senior Commercial Manager Location: London Heathrow (Hybrid working: 3 days in office/2 days working from home) Job type: Permanent (Full time) Salary: £80,000pa - £90,000pa Car allowance: £8,000 per year Annual Leave: 28 days + bank holidays Pension: 5% Aviva pension contribution from employer Health: Bupa Medical Cover Reporting to: Commercial Group Leader We are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to join a project execution team delivering complex, high-value automated material handling and engineering projects within dynamic and technically challenging airport and parcel environments, with a particular focus on Heathrow. Key Responsibilities: As Commercial Manager, you will be accountable for the commercial success of complex engineering projects, including: • Ensuring projects are fully cost and change controlled, protecting the business from commercial risk through robust contract interpretation, management and administration, both upstream to customers and downstream to subcontractors, • Full financial control of projects, including cost forecasting, cash flow management, payment applications and billing plans, • Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, subcontractors and internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery, • Managing change control processes, including scope analysis, estimating and agreement of compensation events (time and cost), • Understanding and managing project programmes, including schedule and delay analysis, • Leading supplier and subcontractor commercial management, both pre- and post-contract, • Driving continuous improvement in commercial management practices and standards, • Supporting the development, mentoring and upskilling of commercial team members to build a high-performing Commercial Management function, • Working collaboratively with Project Directors, Steering Groups and Commercial Leads to implement commercial strategies and targets Essential experience and skills include: You will be an experienced commercial professional with a proven track record in managing large, complex engineering or infrastructure projects. • Experience or background: in Transportation, Auto machinery manufacturing, Airports or Baggage Systems, • Strong working knowledge of industry-standard contracts such as NEC3, NEC4 and MF/1, • Proven experience managing change, including scope definition, estimating and compensation events, • Good understanding of project programmes and schedule delay analysis, • Strong supplier and subcontractor management experience, • Strong negotiation, diplomacy and conflict resolution skills, • Ability to influence multidisciplinary teams to meet programme and commercial objectives, • Membership of a professional body such as RICS, CIOB or ACostE (preferred/desirable)