Commercial Manager - Healthcare Construction

Turner Townsend; Birmingham; Presencial; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Commercial Manager to oversee cost and contract management for healthcare construction projects from award through final account, including central programme duties for large hospital schemes.

You will ensure cost control, risk management, and value for money, with emphasis on change control, KPI governance, and data provision to support analytics across the programme.

Formación

• Proven experience in commercial management within construction of major programmes and projects.
• Strong knowledge of NEC4 and/or JCT contracts.
• Excellent cost control, reporting, and collaboration skills.
• Experience working with public-sector healthcare clients and live healthcare environments.
• Understanding of healthcare standards and compliance frameworks.

Responsabilidades

• Monitor commercial performance and forecast vs baseline for cost and KPIs.
• Visit sites for health checks and escalate commercial risks with recovery actions.
• Conduct commercial assurance of change control and ensure proper definitions and pricing.
• Review changes for compliance and value for money before commitment.
• Perform trend analysis and provide data to support benchmarks.
• Oversee close-out and final accounts and manage risk opportunities.
• Engage with trusts, tier 1 contractors, and suppliers to resolve issues.

Conocimientos

Cost control

Forecasting

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Educación

Degree in Quantity Surveying or related field

Professional membership (RICS/CIOB)

Descripción del empleo

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

The Commercial Manager is responsible for assuring the cost and contract management of healthcare construction projects following contract award through to final account and close out. The role comprises central programme responsibilities working closely with delivery of large-scale hospital schemes. The role ensures cost control, risk management, compliance with wider programme requirements, and delivery of value for money.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor commercial performance
• Maintain forecast vs. baseline for cost, incentivisation provisions, defined cost vs target, payment and commercial KPIs using dashboards and trend analysis
• Visit site routinely; complete health checks/reviews so emerging commercial risks are escalated with clear recovery actions and owners.
• Commercial assurance of change control
• Test that change procedures are understood and followed: scope definition, pricing method, defined cost build-up, risk allowances, approvals and audit trail.
• Assess changes requiring approval and review to confirm compliance and value for money before commitment.
• Undertake trend analysis incorporating scheme data from across the Programme.
• Commercial close out and final account
• Plan and implement close-out and rolling final account settlement
• Risk (Threat & opportunity) management -Support the maintenance of live threats/opportunities with review of quantified impact and report net effect to scheme forecast.
• Endorsing and validation NEC4 ECC (KPI's / Incentives)
• Assure KPI definitions, measurement and evidence aligned to NEC4 ECC and incentive mechanisms. Validate monthly submissions, challenge unsupported claims, and confirm governance before trigger of pain/gain or incentive payments.
• Provision of project data to Data team Provide clean, timely datasets (cost, change, risk, carbon, life cycle) to the Data team so benchmarks and analytics are accurate and comparable.
• Stakeholder management (trusts / tier 1 / suppliers etc) Build and maintain collaborative relationships with contractors and suppliers Use structured engagement to resolve commercial issues Ensure satisfaction of contract and alliance framework conditions
• Undertake Trust and Contractor engagement to confirm team familiarisation with framework conditions and processes.
• Undertake periodic compliance checks against contract conditions and alliance protocols (governance, reporting, behaviours). Record non conformances with corrective actions and due dates.
• Defined cost assurance
• Implement robust approaches to defined cost assurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial management within construction of other major programmes and projects
• Strong knowledge of construction contracts (NEC and/or JCT preferred)
• Excellent cost control, reporting, and collaboration skills
• Experience with public-sector healthcare clients
• Understanding of working in live healthcare environments
• Knowledge of healthcare technical standards and compliance frameworks
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or related field
• Professional membership (or working towards) RICS, CIOB, or equivalent

Additional Information

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Summary Type: Full-time Function: Consulting Experience level: Mid-Senior Level Industry: Management Consulting