Project Commercial Manager

Sweco; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Company car or car allowance

Discretionary annual bonus

Professional subscriptions

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle2Work Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts via Sweco Benefit Select

Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle

Tree planting for new starters

Job summary

Sweco is seeking a Project Commercial Manager to lead commercial and cost management for AMP8-style programmes. You will report to a Senior Project Manager and drive efficiencies, governance and commercial strategy across the project team.

The role requires degree-level education with RICS/CIOB/CICES certification, plus substantial experience with NEC contracts, estimating, and stakeholder management. Hybrid working is supported in the UK&I region.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with RICS/CIOB/CICES certification.
• Experience managing complex multi-million pound projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and commercial/contract negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust estimates are provided that align to scope.
• Support the commercial and procurement strategies with Senior Buyers to follow tender processes.
• Ensure subcontracts reflect the scope and are managed in line with contract.
• Provide accurate live forecasting aligned to project programme and WBS/CBS.
• Monitor actual costs against baseline estimates and explain variances.
• Prepare timely final accounts and ensure cost assurance documentation.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Contract negotiation

Estimating

Project controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

RICS/CIOB/CICES certification

Tools

NEC contracts

Job description

Job Description

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

About Sweco

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

We truly care about enabling our business to be able to deliver what is needed to succeed and want to continue with the great progress we are making with efficiencies. To help us achieve these targets we are looking for a Project Commercial Manager to join the team.

It is essential our commercial and cost management processes and practices remain industry- leading to ensure we not only deliver but outperform against our objectives and customer expectations.

What will you be doing as our new Project Commercial Manager?

You will be accountable for the commercial and cost management of a project or programme of projects from inception to close out reporting directly to a Senior Project Manager (SPM) ensuring that maximum efficiencies are obtained and full compliance with all Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures is achieved. Providing a commercial challenge to the SPM and team on all project matters.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope.
• Managing and supporting the commercial and procurement strategies with the Senior Buyers to ensure the tender processes are followed correctly.
• Ensuring subcontracts are properly prepared and reflect the agreed scope and are properly managed in accordance with contract.
• Providing accurate live forecasting taking into account the project programme and reporting in accordance with the respective WBS/CBS.
• Ensuring actual costs are properly monitored and assessed against the baseline estimate and challenge any variance to the plans.
• Providing reports on actual costs versus estimate and identifying underlying reasons for any variance and resolution.
• Ensuring the Alliance contract is properly administered.
• Overseeing the timely issue of early warnings and advising the IPL on all matters related to compliance.
• Ensuring that proper records are kept so that all financial information for audits and cost assurance is readily available.
• Ensuring final accounts are prepared timely and accurately.
• Ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Proactive management of opportunities including identifying and implementing plans to realise.
• Ensuring that all identified efficiencies are monitored as to progress and report to the IPL any variances to the plan.
• Report any withheld, disputed or disallowed costs to the IPL.
• Leading and managing a small team.
• Mentoring and developing the team individuals.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To be considered for this role, ideally, you’ll be educated to degree level and hold either RICS/CIOB/CICES certification. You’ll have demonstrable experience in managing complex projects ranging in size up to multi-million pounds projects. You’ll have a robust nature, be able to manage change, and feel comfortable challenging decisions. Experience in working with NEC suite of contracts, coupled with negotiating and estimating and outstanding stakeholder management skills will make you stand out from the crowd!

With a high level of integrity and fairness, you’ll act as the commercial conscience of the Senior Project Manager. You’ll champion collaboration and open communication and take ownership, leading with strong commercial focus. Working under pressure with a positive forward-thinking mentality is second nature to you as is you leading and supporting your team with a supportive empathetic approach, using your stakeholder management skills to build strong personal working relationships.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Company car or car allowance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year)
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice)
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

Let’s transform society together at Sweco.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.

Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.

We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more .

We are an accredited Real Living Wage Employer which reflects our commitment to fair pay and support for all colleagues.

We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?

Upon receipt of this information, we’ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request.

Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

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