Commercial Manager – Healthcare Construction

Overview

As Commercial Manager, you will oversee cost and contract management for healthcare construction projects from award to close-out. You will work with delivery teams on large-scale hospital schemes, ensuring cost control, risk management, and value delivery. You’ll provide commercial insight, governance, and data-driven reporting to support decision making. This role offers the chance to shape project outcomes within a global consultancy that values delivering better client results and societal impact.

Responsibilities

• Monitor commercial performance using forecasts, KPIs, and dashboards; perform site health checks and escalate risks with recovery actions
• Assure change control: verify scope, pricing, cost build-up, risk allowances, approvals, and audit trails; assess changes for value for money
• Plan and implement close-out and rolling final accounts
• Manage risk by reviewing threats and opportunities and reporting net effects on scheme forecast
• Endorse and validate NEC4 ECC KPIs, incentive mechanisms, and monthly submissions; challenge unsupported claims
• Provide clean data (cost, change, risk, carbon, life cycle) to the Data team for benchmarks and analytics
• Maintain stakeholder relationships with contractors and suppliers; resolve commercial issues via structured engagement
• Ensure satisfaction of contract and alliance framework conditions; conduct compliance checks and document non-conformances with actions and due dates
• Implement robust defined cost assurance approaches

Key requirements

• Proven experience in commercial management within construction of major programmes and projects
• Strong knowledge of construction contracts (NEC and/or JCT preferred)
• Excellent cost control, reporting, and collaboration skills

• Collaboration and stakeholder management
• Proactive risk management and problem solving
• Clear communication and governance discipline
• Cost control and forecasting
• Commercial dashboards and trend analysis
• NEC4 ECC knowledge and incentive management

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