Senior Commercial Manager – Rail

Overview

As Senior Commercial Manager – Rail, you will lead the commercial delivery for large rail projects within Skanska’s Infrastructure Operating Unit in Manchester. You’ll shape the commercial strategy, manage project finances and contract obligations, and oversee procurement and subcontract activities. You will guide a project commercial team to optimize margins while addressing variations and EOT entitlements. This role offers impact across complex civil engineering programmes and collaboration with cross-functional partners to deliver value for people and places.

Pay / Benefits

• 24/7 digital GP service for you and family
• financial wellbeing and employee assistance
• professional development
• enhanced family benefits (maternity, paternity, dependants, bereavement leave)
• inclusion and diversity
• flexible working

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the project commercial delivery team
• Oversee project finances and contract obligations internally and externally
• Prepare preliminaries estimates and assess staffing for commercial and production staff
• Set a commercial strategy to target best case gross margins and outperform where possible
• Monitor contract procedures, payments, variations, and entitlements
• Assess impact of variations on critical path and EOT entitlement for Skanska
• Manage procurement procedures for package scope including quantification, tender method, negotiation and subcontract documentation
• Line manage direct reports with performance reviews and development plans

Key requirements

• Experience on large projects (100m+), ideally in rail
• Good working knowledge of NEC contracts and commercial law
• Rail project experience desirable
• MRICS or CICES desirable
• Degree or equivalent in a commercial-related subject
• Experience managing commercial teams of 5+ members

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• NEC contract knowledge
• cost forecasting and preliminaries estimation
• procurement management

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