Commercial Manager

Overview

In this Senior Cost Manager role, you’ll drive cost planning, monitoring and reporting on major infrastructure projects within the North East team. You’ll collaborate with clients and contractors to manage budgets, forecasts and payments while supporting governance and value engineering. The position offers strong training and progression into senior responsibilities within a global cost-management practice. You will help deliver projects on time, within budget and with clear commercial governance.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional relationships with clients and project stakeholders
• Administer contracts per project objectives and policies
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion
• Monitor cost variance and cash flow, ensure timely applications
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams on deliverables, KPIs and value engineering
• Manage contract change and governance
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy
• Provide commercial support to stakeholders
• Negotiate and settle final accounts
• Lead people and commissions as needed

Key requirements

• Excellent communication
• Contract Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
• Cost Management
• Change management and control
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Reporting
• Collaborative, best-for-project attitude
• People management
• Identifying and driving efficiencies
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering

• communication
• collaborative approach
• problem-solving
• Cost Management
• Contract Management
• Change management

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