Senior Commercial Manager - Rail

AECOM; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to drive innovative infrastructure projects in the rail sector. This role involves leading a team to deliver comprehensive commercial management throughout the project lifecycle. With a focus on collaboration and excellence, you will engage with key clients and contribute to the growth of the business. Join a dynamic team that values your expertise and offers opportunities for professional advancement in a supportive environment. If you're ready to make a significant impact and grow your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' experience in Cost and Commercial Management.
• Experience in integrated, multi-organisation teams is beneficial.
• Preferred experience in the rail sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of commercial management from project inception to completion.
• Maintain relationships with clients and uphold the company's profile.
• Support business growth and manage commercial staff on complex projects.

Skills

Cost Management

Commercial Management

Quantity Surveying

Stakeholder Management

Project Lifecycle Management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

MRICS Accreditation

Job description

AECOM Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. 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.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Are you a talented and ambitious Senior Commercial Manager looking to work on exciting infrastructure projects that can change the world, projects that are always more complex and innovative than the last?

We are looking for ambitious Senior Commercial Managers willing to take the next step in their career to support our exciting growth plans, working with our key infrastructure clients, particularly in the rail sector in the Northwest and Midlands, supporting the successful delivery of their capital projects and programmes of work. You will be joining an established team of like-minded experts that have a passion for innovation and delivering cutting edge solutions.

Here’s what you’ll do

As a Senior Commercial Manager within Infrastructure team, you will lead a team of commercial managers to provide a comprehensive, accurate and value driven service for large, high profile and exciting key client within the rail sector. The role also presents significant career advancement opportunities to work across other sectors including highways, water, and power sectors throughout the UK.

The role will cover all aspects of commercial management throughout the whole project lifecycle from initial inception / business case through to completion / commissioning. The role also provides the opportunity to support the growth of the business and management/development of team members within the Northwest and Midlands.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Lead and deliver all aspects of commercial management from inception of a project through to completion.
• Achieve the highest standards of professional competence and to demonstrate this ability in all dealings with clients and professional contacts, reinforcing the profile of the company.
• Drive performance standards and technical excellence through communication and effective use of the performance management process and AECOM technical practice networks.
• Maintain and develop good relationships with clients, take every opportunity to uphold and increase the profile of the firm as a provider of professional, premium quality services to the construction industry.
• Actively support the internal team and manage commercial staff on technically complex projects.
• Develop marketing opportunities and where appropriate bring to the attention of Directors and the Business Development Department, in order that they may assist in following up potential leads enabling the development of new business.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for: -

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience with a strong track record in the Cost and Commercial Management/Quantity Surveying field.
• Experience of undertaking cost/commercial management as part of integrated, multi-organisation, collaborative teams
• Experience of working within a client organization, either directly or through a colocation/secondment arrangement would be of benefit.
• Experience of working in the rail sector is preferred
• Ability to identify and influence key client stakeholders, building effective relationships to grow workload/portfolio
• Degree in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent).
• Accredited to MRICS (or equivalent) or working towards it

Additional Information

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires 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 above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10125363

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Survey & Estimation

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Limited

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction

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