Senior Commercial Manager

Arup; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in engineering and construction is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to ensure the financial success of major projects. The role involves contract management, advising clients, and enhancing project performance through effective commercial strategies. Join a diverse team committed to impactful work and personal growth.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Accident Insurance

Income Protection

Flexible Benefits

Profit Share

Qualifications

• Good contract experience, particularly with NEC4 contracts.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating main contracts.
• Experience using contract administration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage internal processes and external relationships for project success.
• Advise clients on commercial management for successful project delivery.
• Participate in project reviews and coach teams on commercial awareness.

Skills

Contract Management

Commercial Awareness

Risk Management

Education

Professional Memberships (MRICS, MCInstCES, MCIOB)

Tools

CEMAR

Asite

Job description

Arup’s purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach have set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

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The Opportunity

Our NWY Advisory Services team is recruiting a Senior Commercial Manager to join our well-established team. With offices in Leeds, Manchester, and Liverpool, you can choose your preferred location on a hybrid basis. As a Commercial Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the commercial and financial success of major construction and engineering projects. Your focus will be on ensuring financial success by managing internal processes and maintaining external relationships with customers, clients, and multidisciplinary colleagues.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective that encourages individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from respecting, sharing, and connecting diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas. You will have opportunities to do socially useful work that is meaningful to Arup, your career, our members, and the communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

In this role, you will apply your knowledge of contract management to enhance project performance, focusing on insurances, programme, delay damages, key contract dates, and risk management. You will advise clients and colleagues on good commercial management to ensure successful project delivery. This involves understanding estimates, value engineering, supply chain management, valuing work, understanding costs, cost/value analysis, cash flow, change management, and commercial decision-making. You will also participate in project reviews, commercial discussions with clients and suppliers, ensure the execution of action items, and coach staff and multidisciplinary teams to enhance their commercial awareness and expertise.

Requirements:

• Good contract experience, particularly with NEC4 contracts.
• Experience working within a client organization, either directly or through colocation/secondment in high-profile and complex projects.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating main contracts throughout project development and execution.
• Experience using contract administration platforms such as CEMAR and Asite to oversee and act on client communications and instructions.
• Professional memberships (MRICS, MCInstCES, or MCIOB) are advantageous.

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What We Offer You

At Arup, we care about each member’s success so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes each member’s contribution to our shared success. Along with competitive pay, we offer a career where all members can belong, grow, and thrive—supported by health and wellbeing benefits, learning opportunities, and impactful work.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom and personal responsibility to set our direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes. Profit Share is a key part of our reward system, allowing members to share in our collective success.

Additional benefits include private medical insurance, life assurance, accident insurance, income protection, and flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and meet your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender identity, marital status, disability, neurotype, race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or family status. We foster an open environment that values diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas, which drives our excellence.

Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create equitable spaces and systems and cultivate a sense of belonging for all. Our internal networks support our inclusive culture, including initiatives for race, ethnicity, gender equity, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and disability. Learn more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

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