In your new role as Project Commercial Manager, you will play a crucial role in enhancing project commercial outcomes and driving best practices in commercial management across the business. Leveraging your expertise in consultancy, engineering construction contracts, programme and change management, you will support and empower Project Managers (PMs) in all commercial aspects — mitigating risk, managing change, minimising margin loss, and fostering commercial excellence to strengthen project performance and client satisfaction.
Reporting to the Commercial Manager – Water, and working closely with the Business Unit Operations Director and the commercial team, you will operate across multiple projects and frameworks within the Water sector.
Here’s what you’ll do:
Collaborate:
Assist Project Managers, Project Directors, and Lead Verifiers in the commercial management of projects to ensure successful and profitable delivery.
Provide Expertise:
Apply your knowledge of contract and risk management to enhance project outcomes. Focus on key areas including contract communications, change management, programme, delay damages, key dates, and insurances. Conduct detailed analyses of challenged projects and report on findings from both commercial and financial compliance perspectives.
Ensure Quality:
Use contract administration platforms such as CEMAR and Asite to monitor, respond to, and act on client communications and instructions. Ensure that change is rigorously managed with a strong focus on its commercial implications and overall risk/opportunity balance.
Oversee:
Take part in project reviews and commercial discussions with clients and suppliers, ensuring that actions are tracked and implemented. Oversee the preparation of subcontract documents to ensure back-to-back contract compliance.
Mentor:
Coach technical staff to improve their commercial awareness and understanding of contract management.
Deliver:
Work proactively to reduce disallowed costs and manage expenditures efficiently across AECOM and its subcontractors, subconsultants, and supply chain. Contribute to Go/No-Go approval documents for new projects or major project changes.
Scope of Projects: