Senior Construction Commercial Manager

the LEGO Group; Billund; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing

Colleague Discount

Bonus

Workplace

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Senior Construction Commercial Manager within Global Workplace Projects to lead commercial governance across EMEA brownfield projects. You will manage cost, forecasting, change control, and reporting, shaping investment decisions and ensuring value creation through disciplined commercial leadership.

You’ll operate independently within a global network, partner across Finance, Procurement, Engineering and Operations, and travel about 20–25 days per year to project

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in commercial management within large-scale capital, industrial, infrastructure, or construction projects.
• Expertise in design and construction tender processes, cost planning, and change management.
• Ability to translate project cost and data into executive-level recommendations.
• Strong cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations.
• Willingness to travel ~20–25 days per year.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial activities for EMEA brownfield projects, ensuring cost governance and budget adherence.
• Lead cost planning, forecasting, change management, and cashflow forecasting.
• Drive cost optimization and value engineering initiatives across projects.
• Develop commercial reporting and dashboards to show cost, risk, and performance.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and external partners for governance.
• Support Discovery Projects with early-stage cost validation and land readiness assessments.
• Provide commercial insights to senior leadership on governance and strategy.

Skills

Commercial leadership

Cost management

Forecasting

Change management

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Construction Management

Civil Engineering

Related technical discipline

Job description

Job Description

Imagine influencing the commercial decisions behind some of the LEGO Group’s most significant construction investments. Then make it real!

About the role

As Senior Construction Commercial Manager in Global Workplace Projects, you’ll provide commercial leadership across EMEA brownfield projects while helping strengthen commercial governance, portfolio risk management. You’ll oversee cost management, estimating, change control, and commercial reporting while providing insights that support major investment decisions. This is an opportunity to influence how the LEGO Group delivers large-scale workplace and infrastructure projects and ensure investments create lasting value.

This role suits an experienced commercial professional who’s comfortable operating independently and serving as the primary commercial lead within a geographically dispersed team. You’ll have the support of a global network of colleagues while taking ownership of commercial outcomes across your area of responsibility.

Please note: Relocation support is not available for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in commercial management, quantity surveying, construction management or cost management within large-scale capital, industrial, infrastructure, or construction projects.
• Demonstrated expertise in design and construction tender process, cost planning, cost control, forecasting, contract administration, and change management across the project lifecycle.
• Skills in influencing key commercial and investment decisions through value engineering, cost optimization, and robust commercial recommendations.
• Applied strong analytical and financial acumen to translate complex project cost, schedule, and commercial data into actionable business insights and executive-level recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience building strong cross-functional partnerships and managing key stakeholder relationships across Finance, Construction, Procurement, Engineering, Operations, and Program teams to drive successful commercial outcomes and project delivery.
• Willingness to travel approx. 20-25 days yearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong commercial foundation through hands-on involvement in the delivery of major construction projects, bringing practical experience from within project organizations rather than solely advisory or consulting environments.
• Delivered benchmarking and value engineering initiatives within construction projects.
• Supported sustainable construction projects, including embedded carbon considerations.
• Experience delivering projects across multiple countries and working within diverse regulatory, commercial, and cultural environments.

If you’ve worked in a role where you’ve reviewed project costs, challenged contractor change requests, managed commercial risk, and supported major capital investments, you’ll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to combine practical construction experience with strong commercial judgement and translate complex financial and project data into actionable business insights.

What you’ll build

• Manage commercial activities for EMEA brownfield projects, ensuring effective cost governance, financial transparency, risk management, and adherence to approved budgets.
• Lead cost planning and forecasting, including change management, estimate reviews, cashflow forecasting, and contingency oversight.
• Drive cost optimization and value engineering initiatives to maximize value across projects.
• Develop commercial reporting and dashboards that provide insights into cost, risk exposure, and project performance.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and external partners to ensure consistent commercial governance.
• Support Discovery Projects through early-stage cost validation and land readiness assessments.
• Provide commercial insights and recommendations to senior leadership on governance,

Life on the team

You’ll join Global Workplace Projects, a team responsible for enabling the future growth of the LEGO Group through new production facilities and large-scale infrastructure projects around the world. We work closely with colleagues across Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and external partners to deliver long-term value. You’ll be part of a smaller global team while owning the commercial agenda for your area of responsibility. We value curiosity, initiative, collaboration, and a continuous improvement mindset as we work together to solve complex challenges and support the LEGO Group’s future growth.

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted commercial partner across a portfolio of major construction investments. You’ll strengthen governance, improve forecasting quality, and increase transparency around commercial risks and opportunities. Working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, you’ll help shape long-term planning, support portfolio risk management, and ensure future workplace projects deliver lasting value for the LEGO Group.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeksto encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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