Overview
In this role you drive commercial leadership across a portfolio of water and environmental projects within WSP’s Water business. You partner with multi-disciplinary teams to balance client expectations, staff development, and financial performance, delivering commercial excellence on complex infrastructure initiatives. You’ll advise on risk, governance, and changes throughout bids and project lifecycles, contributing to robust forecasts and reporting. This opportunity appeals to you if you enjoy solving commercial challenges, working collaboratively, and shaping outcomes on landmark projects with real community impact. You’ll join a culture that values curiosity, inclusion, and innovation, 0
Pay / Benefits
- flexible hybrid working
- Thrive health and wellbeing programme
- Virtual GP service
- gymflex membership discounts
- WSP My Hour for personal time
- development opportunities and Chartership
Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver commercial services to internal and external clients across water and environmental projects
- Provide risk and commercial advice during bid and project lifecycle
- Ensure suitable prospect governance is in place
- Support reporting and forecasting of project commercial performance with finance
- Carry out detailed commercial and financial analyses and reporting
- Manage changes with emphasis on commercial implications and risk
- Ensure activities meet internal standards and external requirements
- Support the commercial team’s business improvement initiatives
Key requirements
- Degree in relevant discipline
- Background in quantity surveying and project commercial management
- Advanced MS Excel skills and ability to analyze, manage and report data
- Solid knowledge of NEC 3/4 contract administration
- Ability to produce clear reports and present information effectively
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with clients and project teams
- Experience planning timescales, resources and commercial inputs, and monitoring progress against programme and budget
- Understanding of fee structures and cost drivers (desirable)
- Open to opportunities from AI adoption
- collaborative
- problem solving
- inclusive and respectful behaviors
- NEC 3/4 contract administration
- Microsoft Excel (advanced)
- commercial data analysis
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