Project Risk and Commercial Manager (LSNA-OH)

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Stock purchase program

Hybrid work policy and paid time off

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is seeking a Project Risk and Commercial Manager to oversee large Life Sciences North America programs, often over $1B TIC. You’ll monitor health, identify risks, and advise leadership and clients, focusing on governance and practical risk responses.

The role requires engineering-backed judgment, experience with risk management, and the ability to work with multidisciplinary teams in a hybrid environment. Competitive compensation and benefits accompany the role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, risk management, insurance, law, or a related field.
• Experience in risk and change identification oversight, commercial advisory, and financial analysis, with additional project risk management, contract management, project controls, construction, engineering, EPCM, or insurance/risk management experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of project risk management principles, risk registers, mitigation planning, and cost and schedule risk concepts.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and communicating risk information clearly to project teams, clients, governance bodies, and executive leadership.
• Ability to define, analyze, and solve complex project problems, translating uncertainty into practical actions and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project teams to monitor program health, performance, and risks across workstreams.
• Lead or support risk and opportunity workshops with stakeholders and risk owners.
• Oversee risk registers, mitigation actions, escalation recommendations, and reporting.
• Evaluate cost and schedule risk using quantitative and qualitative methods, including Monte Carlo simulations.
• Perform financial and commercial risk analysis and due diligence as needed.
• Prepare risk dashboards and client-facing briefing materials for governance.
• Coordinate with commercial and legal teams on protections and risk transfer.
• Support forecasts, change evaluations, and compliance tracking as required.
• Promote consistent risk and commercial management practices across the portfolio.

Skills

Risk management

Commercial advisory

Financial analysis

Risk workshops

Stakeholder management

MS Office

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / related field

Tools

Monte Carlo simulation

Financial modeling

Job description

Project Risk and Commercial Manager (LSNA-OH)

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

At Jacobs, we don’t settle – always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We apply our knowledge and innovation as welook tothe future with great optimism and focus. We don’t settle until we give our best and know that we’re making a difference. We provide the resources to turn great ideas into reality, and we’re looking for the most talented and passionate individuals out there to be our next generation of leaders.

You’re following your purpose—and there’s still more to come. As part of Jacobs’ Life Sciences North America team, you’ll join a collaborative group of project services and governance professionals supporting major pharmaceutical infrastructure projects.

The Project Risk and Commercial Manager will provide oversight of large-value Life Sciences North America programs, generally exceeding $1 billion in total installed cost (TIC). The role will maintain the day-to-day pulse of the program, identify emerging risks and commercial exposures, challenge assumptions and risk owners, and provide practical advice to project leadership and clients.

This role is primarily focused on oversight, governance, and advisory support, with the knowledge and ability to perform detailed analysis or develop key deliverables when needed. Internally, the role reports program risk status and overall health to the Risk and Governance team and supports executive reporting and financial analysis.

• Collaborate with the project team to maintain an informed view of program health, performance, emerging issues, change trends, contractual matters, and external developments across workstreams.
• Lead or support risk and opportunity workshops; challenge risk owners, assumptions, mitigation plans, and residual exposure with project teams, clients, and stakeholders.
• Oversee risk registers, mitigation actions, escalation recommendations, and reporting, ensuring risks are actively managed and integrated with cost, schedule, change, commercial, quality, safety, procurement, and design processes.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative risk information, including cost and schedule risk; quantitative risk modeling methods, including Monte Carlo simulation
• Perform financial and commercial risk analysis, financial modeling, and market or supply chain due diligence as needed.
• Prepare and review risk dashboards, executive reports, client-facing and internal briefing materials
• Coordinate with commercial and legal resources as needed on protections and risk transfer.
• Provide hands-on support, as needed, for forecasts, change evaluations, claims readiness, compliance tracking, commercial reviews, and other risk-based project deliverables.
• Promote consistent risk and commercial management practices and identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, data quality, reporting, technology, and automation across the portfolio.
• Actively support Jacobs’ commitment to safety, integrity, inclusion, and our core values on every project.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, risk management, insurance, law, or a related field.
• Experience in risk and change identification oversight, commercial advisory, and financial analysis, with additional project risk management, contract management, project controls, construction, engineering, EPCM, or insurance/risk management experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of project risk management principles, risk registers, mitigation planning, and cost and schedule risk concepts.
• Experience facilitating risk workshops and communicating risk information clearly to project teams, clients, governance bodies, and executive leadership.
• Ability to define, analyze, and solve complex project problems, translating uncertainty into practical actions and recommendations.
• General understanding of contractual risk allocation, indemnity provisions, insurance requirements, change management, claims, and general principles of project commercial management.
• Experience integrating risk management with project controls, cost, schedule, commercial, quality, safety, procurement, and design processes.
• Motivated and collaborative, while able to work independently and exercise sound judgment in a project delivery environment.
• Strong desire to seek out learning opportunities and improve project and organizational risk and commercial practices.
• Clear ability to take initiative, influence without direct authority, and drive accountability for risk responses and commercial actions.
• Ability to manage multiple demands across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Engineering, construction, EPCM, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing industry experience.
• Experience working directly with clients, project governance teams, or public/private project owners.
• Industry certification or equivalent evidence of continuing professional education.

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Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $160,000.00 to $265,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on September 30, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .