Commercial jobs in 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. Across the UK and Ireland, our Water team is contributing to some of the most significant and complex projects in the sector—advancing sustainable, resilient, and digitally enabled solutions for key water companies. With substantial growth expected over the coming years, you'll be joining a collaborative network of experts making a real difference in how communities access and manage their water resources.

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.

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM's commercial function is designed to link the operational requirements of the business with the key corporate functions such as finance, legal and risk.

In your new role as Project Commercial Manager, you will play a crucial role in enhancing project commercial outcomes and driving commercial best practice and learning. By leveraging your expertise in consultancy, engineering construction contracts, programme, and change management, you will support and uplift project managers (PMs) in commercial matters. This includes mitigating risks, managing change, minimising lost margin 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.

Here's what you'll do

• Collaborate: Assisting PMs, Project Directors, and Lead Verifiers in the commercial management of projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Provide Expertise: Applying your 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 on issues and findings from both a commercial and finance compliance perspective.
• 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 the commercial implications of change and management of commercial risk and opportunity generally.
• Oversee: Participating in project reviews, commercial discussions with clients and suppliers, and ensuring the 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/subconsultants/supply chain. Contributing to the development of Go/No-Go approval documents for new projects or significant changes to existing projects.
• Scope of projects:

• Water Treatment Plants: Designing and constructing facilities for treating drinking water to ensure it meets safety and quality standards.
• Wastewater Treatment Plants: Developing systems for treating wastewater to remove contaminants before it is released back into the environment.
• Flood Risk Management: Implementing flood defense systems, including levees, floodwalls, and stormwater management solutions to protect communities from flooding.
• Water Supply Systems: Planning and constructing infrastructure for the distribution of clean water, including pipelines, reservoirs, and pumping stations.
• Hydraulic Modelling: Using advanced software to simulate water flow and optimize the design of water-related infrastructure.
• River and Coastal Engineering: Enhancing and protecting riverbanks and coastlines through erosion control, habitat restoration, and sustainable development practices.
• Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS): Designing and implementing systems to manage urban runoff and reduce the impact on natural water bodies.
• Desalination Projects: Developing facilities to convert seawater into potable water, addressing water scarcity in arid regions.
• Water Resource Management: Creating strategies for the sustainable management of water resources, including conservation, allocation, and quality monitoring.
• Irrigation Systems: Designing efficient irrigation systems to support agriculture and optimize 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 provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

Our Water team fosters a culture of trust and collaboration, comprising 700 professionals, including Scientists, Engineers, and Project Managers. We specialize in providing consultancy services across diverse sectors, serving clients in the UK, Europe, and worldwide, with our projects reaching as far as the Middle East and Africa.

The Water team is at the forefront of AECOM's strategic purpose and acts as a global centre of excellence - to provide leading consultancy across the water sector. As such, you will be involved in negotiating and supporting various projects, where AECOM's UKI team is a leader.

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.

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• Experience gained within a legal, commercial or financial role within the engineering or construction industry.
• Preferably a degree (or equivalent qualification) in finance, law, quantity surveying, commercial management or an engineering discipline. Post graduate business qualifications are highly advantageous.
• Good working knowledge of contract law and specific knowledge with respect to the infrastructure projects. Experience of a range of forms of contract such as NEC3, NEC4, government frameworks and bespoke design & build agreements.
• 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

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 ReasonableAccomodations@aecom.com.

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!

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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