Commercial Manager – Energy (Transmission & Distribution)

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The role of a Commercial Manager will be taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large and complex infrastructure commissions covering both private and public sector clients. Your role will be to ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value-added commercial management service.

You'll play a vital role in delivering Commercial Management commissions for our clients. The role will require the successful individual to be confident in liaising with and presenting to both clients and contractors. An attention to detail is essential, but with an ability to position commercial context around the detail that enables our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions is just as important.

The role will cover all aspects of commercial management throughout the whole project lifecycle from initial inception/ business case through to completion/ commissioning.

You will provide Commercial Management Services across a wide range of sectors and will need to be flexible and able to adapt to different client requirements at short notice including working remotely, and happy to travel both throughout the UK and abroad in the pursuit of successful delivery. Travel may at times be frequent and could require time away from your base location.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Budget/ baseline development, aligned with our wider controls/ PMO teams, process development, estimation review and assurance, optioneering, inherent risk analysis, procurement/ tender review and assurance, life cycle costing, month end accruals and live forecasting, change and contingency management. Alignment with cost management team and commercial delivery.
• Identification of process improvement opportunities for cost controls and commercial governance.
• Interfacing and engagement with project staff including cost, commercial and controls.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Supporting the production of close-out reports.
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain. 
• Lead engagements when travelling to different sites/locations nationally and internationally.
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial management.