Senior Commercial Manager - Aviation

Mace; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mace Construct Limited is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to oversee cost management and risk for complex works packages at Heathrow terminals 3, 4 and 5. You will lead a team of professionals, manage subcontractor claims, draft technical and contractual correspondence, and ensure financial and legal compliance across two major projects.

The role requires NEC contract experience, a relevant degree, and CSCS certification.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management or equivalent.
• NEC 3 and NEC 4 contract experience.
• CSCS certification is preferred.

Aufgaben

• Manages and provides leadership to a team of Managers and Professionals, ensuring the principles, structures, tools/capabilities and responsibilities are in place to deliver area plans and deliver excellence.
• Addresses subcontractor contractual claims and change.
• Produces monthly client application.
• Approves invoices and issues IPC.
• Drafts necessary technical and contractual correspondence.
• Commercially manages design consultants and specialist fees.
• Ensures site team acts within commercial and legal procedures and agreements.
• Communicates with clients and subcontractors.
• Focuses on cost, schedule, risk, and performance management throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Implements cost control, (integrating commercial role with planning/scheduling team), risk analysis, earned value management, forecasting, and change management.
• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

Kenntnisse

Financial acumen

Commercial management

Leadership

Cost management

Stakeholder liaison

Ausbildung

Degree in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management

CSCS

NEC Contract Experience (NEC 3/4)

Tools

NEC contracts

Jobbeschreibung

About The Company

At Mace Construct, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We are innovators, trusted partners, construction experts. Founded on a belief that the built environment sector could be more efficient, innovative and responsible. We’ve built a reputation and track record for delivering projects better than ever before: safer, faster and greener. Transforming industries, supporting communities and leaving legacies.

About The Company

At Mace Construct, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We are innovators, trusted partners, construction experts. Founded on a belief that the built environment sector could be more efficient, innovative and responsible. We’ve built a reputation and track record for delivering projects better than ever before: safer, faster and greener. Transforming industries, supporting communities and leaving legacies.

About The Project

Mace Construct has worked at Heathrow for more than 25 years. Over that time, its role has extended across more than 400 live frameworks and projects on a 1,227-hectare campus. Experience at that scale builds more than site knowledge. It develops an understanding of how operational, technical and stakeholder interfaces behave under pressure, and what it takes to deliver change without interrupting the system around it. Our teams have extensive, first‑hand understanding of delivering airport projects, combining exceptional commitment to safety, smart construction methods and a collaborative, client‑focused approach to ensure success. This approach has cemented long term partnerships.

About The Role

The Senior Commercial Manager is responsible for the cost management of complex works packages, managing risk and opportunity ensuring profit on packages and project. Supporting the senior commercial team members in administering the monthly commercial procedures such as Cost Value Report. This role will be responsible for two projects;

• Chiller asset replacement and modernisation of life expired chillers or associated chilled water system components across Heathrow terminals 3, 4, and 5. at airside and landside locations.
• T4 BMS upgrade project is to reconfigure the existing BMS functionality spread across several life‑expired systems and migrate the T4 BMS HVAC controls to a single upgraded, modern, supportable, and secure platform.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manages & provides leadership to a team of Managers and Professionals, ensuring the principles, structures, tools/capabilities and responsibilities are in place to deliver area plans and deliver excellence.
• Addresses subcontractor contractual claims and change.
• Produces monthly client application.
• Approves invoices and issues IPC.
• Drafts necessary technical and contractual corresponded.
• Commercially managers design consultants and specialist fees.
• Ensures site team acts with in commercial and legal procedures and agreements.
• Communicates with clients and subcontractors.
• Focuses on cost, schedule, risk, and performance management throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Implements cost control, (integrating commercial role with planning/scheduling team), risk analysis, earned value management, forecasting, and change management.
• Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management (or equivalent).
• CSCS.
• Strong financial skills and commercial acumen.
• Understood project construction plan.
• Measurement to assess variations.
• Leadership capability and experience managing a team
• NEC 3 and NEC 4 Contract Experience

Nice to have

• Experience working on airport construction projects
• Past experience of major projects (£25 -50m) or experience managing multiple projects, and reporting multiple projects upstream and downstream
• Experience Managing multiple projects at all stages (Preconstruction and Construction).
• Experience working with a reputable main contractor
• Formal qualification MRICS, CIOB or similar

You can find more information about our culture, values, and how we reward our people here.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

Primary Location

GB-GB-London

Organization

Mace Construct Limited

Schedule

Regular

Job Type

Full-time

Job Posting

16-Oct-2026, 10:31:22 AM