Project Commercial Manager - Water

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering firm is seeking a Project Commercial Manager in Manchester to enhance project commercial outcomes and drive best practices in contract and risk management. The ideal candidate will have a background in finance, law, or engineering, with experience in infrastructure projects. Join a dynamic team focused on delivering significant contributions to critical water projects. This role offers hybrid work options and diverse career development opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid work options

Wide array of benefits and well-being programs

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a legal, commercial or financial role within engineering or construction.
• Good working knowledge of contract law and infrastructure project contracts.
• Experience communicating with clients and subcontractors.

Responsibilities

• Assist PMs and Project Directors in commercial management.
• Perform risk management and drive commercial best practices.
• Oversee client communications and manage changes with a focus on costs.

Skills

Contract law knowledge

Commercial management

Risk management

Client communication

Education

Degree in finance, law, quantity surveying or engineering

Postgraduate business qualifications

Job description

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Overview

Company: AECOM. Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. The Water team in the UK and Ireland is contributing to significant and complex projects, advancing sustainable, resilient, and digitally enabled solutions for key water companies. You will join a collaborative network of experts delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Join a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers, and other professionals driving meaningful change.

Job Title: Project Commercial Manager

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM's commercial function links the operational requirements of the business with key corporate functions such as finance, legal and risk. In your role as Project Commercial Manager, you will enhance project commercial outcomes, drive commercial best practice and learning, and support project managers (PMs) in commercial matters. This includes mitigating risks, managing change, minimising margin loss, and fostering commercial best practices to boost project performance and client satisfaction.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager of Water and working under the direction of the Business Unit Operations Director and commercial team, your responsibilities will span across multiple projects and Frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate: Assisting PMs, Project Directors, and Lead Verifiers in the commercial management of projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Provide Expertise: Applying knowledge of contract and risk management to enhance project performance, focusing on contract communications, change management, programme, delay damages, key contract dates and insurances. Carry out detailed analyses of challenged projects and report issues and findings from commercial and finance compliance perspectives.
• Ensure Quality: Using contract administration platforms such as CEMAR and Asite to oversee and act on client communications and instructions. Ensure changes are managed rigorously with a focus on commercial implications and risk/opportunity management.
• Oversee: Participating in project reviews, commercial discussions with clients and suppliers, and ensuring execution of action items. Oversee preparation of subcontract documents to ensure a back-to-back position.
• Mentor: Coaching technical staff to heighten their commercial awareness and expertise.
• Deliver: Working to reduce disallowed costs and efficiently manage expenditures from AECOM and its subcontractors/sub-consultants/supply chain. Contribute to Go/No-Go documents for new projects or significant changes.
• Scope of projects: Water Treatment Plants, Wastewater Treatment Plants, Flood Risk Management, Water Supply Systems, Hydraulic Modelling, River and Coastal Engineering, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Desalination Projects, Water Resource Management, and Irrigation Systems.

Scope of projects details:

• Water Treatment Plants: Designing and constructing facilities for treating drinking water to ensure safety and quality.
• Wastewater Treatment Plants: Developing systems for treating wastewater to remove contaminants before release to the environment.
• Flood Risk Management: Implementing flood defense systems to protect communities.
• Water Supply Systems: Planning and constructing pipelines, reservoirs and pumping stations for clean water distribution.
• Hydraulic Modelling: Using software to simulate water flow and optimise infrastructure design.
• River and Coastal Engineering: Protecting riverbanks and coastlines through erosion control and habitat restoration.
• Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS): Designing systems to manage urban runoff.
• Desalination Projects: Developing facilities to convert seawater into potable water.
• Water Resource Management: Creating strategies for sustainable management of water resources.
• Irrigation Systems: Designing efficient irrigation to optimise water use.

Come & Grow with Us.

We develop projects from concept through operation, providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists offer analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

Our Water team comprises around 700 professionals, including Scientists, Engineers and Project Managers, serving clients in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The Water team acts as a global centre of excellence for leading consultancy across the water sector.

There are multiple future career development opportunities, from Project Management through to Operations or Commercial functions, or taking commercial responsibility for a Practice or Business Unit.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in a legal, commercial or financial role within the engineering or construction industry.
• Preferably a degree (or equivalent) in finance, law, quantity surveying, commercial management or an engineering discipline. Postgraduate business qualifications are advantageous.
• Good working knowledge of contract law and experience with infrastructure project contracts (e.g., NEC3, NEC4, government frameworks, bespoke design & build).
• Experience in project, commercial and risk management, including client-facing roles.
• Experience communicating with clients, subcontractors and subconsultants to proactively resolve commercial performance concerns/risks.

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail].

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements or have transferable skills, we would be delighted to hear from you.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering services from advisory through to construction management across transportation, buildings, water, energy and the environment. We are a Fortune 500 firm with a global presence and a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and ESG priorities. Learn more at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have hybrid work options and a dynamic environment where integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and a pioneering mindset are championed. We encourage a safe and respectful workplace and invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet diverse needs. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we support applicants with disabilities and long-term conditions; please contact us if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.