Commercial Manager – Healthcare Construction

Overview

In this role you will oversee cost and contract management for healthcare construction projects from award through final close. You’ll work within a delivery programme for large hospital schemes, ensuring cost control, risk handling, and value for money. You’ll collaborate with delivery teams and stakeholders to drive compliant, data-driven commercial performance. The position offers scope to shape project economics and governance within a complex, live healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor commercial performance using dashboards and trend analyses for cost, incentives, defined cost vs target, and KPIs
• Conduct site health checks to identify emerging commercial risks and drive recovery actions
• Ensure change control procedures are followed, including scope, pricing, risk allowances, approvals and audit trails
• Assess changes for compliance and value for money before commitment
• Perform programme-wide trend analysis using data from across schemes
• Plan and execute close-out and rolling final accounts
• Manage risk and opportunities with quantified impacts and reporting to scheme forecast
• Validate NEC4 ECC KPI definitions and incentive mechanisms; verify monthly submissions and governance before payments
• Provide clean, timely cost, change, risk, carbon, and life-cycle data to Data team
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with contractors and suppliers to resolve commercial issues
• Ensure contract and alliance framework compliance through governance, reporting and corrective actions
• Implement robust defined cost assurance approaches

Key requirements

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

• Stakeholder management
• Collaborative mindset
• Problem-solving under pressure
• Cost control and forecasting
• Change management and value-for-money assessment
• KPI definition and validation

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