Lead Commercial Manager, Healthcare Construction Programs

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead cost and contract management for healthcare construction projects in the UK. The role involves monitoring performance, dashboard-based reporting, site visits, and ensuring value for money within NEC4/ JCT frameworks.

The successful candidate will drive change control, risk assessment, and final account settlement while collaborating with contractors and the Data team to provide accurate project data.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial management within construction of 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or related field

RICS/CIOB membership (or working towards)

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead cost and contract management for healthcare construction projects in the UK. The role involves monitoring performance, dashboard-based reporting, site visits, and ensuring value for money within NEC4/ JCT frameworks.

The successful candidate will drive change control, risk assessment, and final account settlement while collaborating with contractors and the Data team to provide accurate project data.