Commercial Manager:Transportation

AECOM; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

AECOM is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager: Transportation to join our Dublin team. You will support the Commercial Director and work with operations and other Commercial Managers on major schemes, ensuring commercial robustness and proactive management of change, invoicing and financial reporting.

The role emphasizes commercial focus from project outset and ongoing project delivery, with hybrid work options in Dublin and surrounding offices.

Qualifications

• Preferably a degree in a business, finance, law or engineering discipline.
• A qualification in accountancy, surveying or law would be advantageous.
• Previous experience within a legal, commercial or financial role in construction/property.
• Contract experience in commercial management for large value projects (>£1 million).
• Good understanding of risk management procedures and processes.
• Commercial acumen with strong business analysis and ability to interpret complex financial reports.
• Knowledge of English commercial law and contract forms (GCCC, NEC3/4, JCT, Govt Frameworks, FIDIC).
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide risk and commercial advice across the project lifecycle.
• Support reporting and forecasting of commercial performance.
• Manage commercial risk and opportunities with a focus on change control.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Apply contractual mechanisms and negotiate terms.
• Attend progress and change control meetings with clients.
• Input to Risk Register and assist financial reporting.
• Collaborate with discipline leads to identify and assess change.
• Monitor changes to the Project Programme with the Project Planner.
• Oversee internal reporting, Earned Value Management and EACs.
• Manage supply chain contracts, payment applications and invoices.
• Conduct regular programme and cost reconciliations.

Skills

risk management

commercial acumen

business analysis

communication

stakeholder management

Education

Degree in business/finance/engineering

ACCA/ACMA/CPA/MRICS/Law Society

Job 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.

AECOM is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager: Transportation to join our team in one of our offices in Dublin.

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. We are looking for a Commercial Manager to join our team!

You will be supporting the Commercial Director and Assistant Commercial Directors whilst working closely with the Operation teams and other Commercial Managers on major schemes, to ensure our bids and projects are commercially robust; and ensuring that the contractual mechanisms for change control, invoicing and financial reporting have been proactively managed and suitably addressed.

You will be required to provide commercial support to ensure that the project is commercially focused from the outset as well as providing regular ongoing support during project delivery.

Job Summary

The key accountabilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Provide risk and commercial advice during the project lifecycle to assess performance and provide support to the wider transportation business, project, market sector and/or business development leadership.
• With support from the finance function provide effective reporting and forecasting of the commercial performance for the projects you are supporting.
• Ensure changes are managed rigorously with a focus on commercial implications of change, manage commercial risk and opportunity generally.
• Ensure that activities meet both internal company standards and external regulatory requirements
• Apply contractual mechanisms, preparation of CE quotations and manage negotiation to agreement
• Attend regular progress meetings and change control meetings with the client
• Input to Risk Register and assessment of risk allowance in financial reporting
• Work with AECOM discipline leads to identify and assess change
• Work with Project Planner to capture and monitor changes to the Project Programme
• Manage internal AECOM reporting processes, Earned Value Management and EAC’s
• Manage supply chain contracts, payment applications and invoices
• Undertake regular programme and cost reconciliation

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Preferably a degree in a business, finance, law or engineering discipline.
• A qualification in accountancy, surveying or law e.g. ACCA, ACMA, CPA, MRICS, Law Society would be advantageous.
• Previous experience gained within a legal, commercial or financial role within the construction and property industry.
• Previous contract experience in commercial management for large value projects with fee values in excess of £1million
• A good understanding of risk management procedures and processes
• Demonstrate commercial acumen, strong business analysis skills and the ability to interpret and understand complex financial systems and reports.
• Basic knowledge of English commercial law and specific knowledge of contract law with respect to the built environment; experience of a range of forms of contract such as GCCC, NEC3&4, JCT, Govt Frameworks, FIDIC.
• Good interpersonal skills including relationship building and communication at all levels and work collaboratively across the organisation; listening to other points of view while still being persuasive.

Additional Information

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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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025.

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.

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