Commercial Manager – Major Infrastructure Programme
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Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to lead commercial strategy, contract management, programme controls, budgeting, and risk management for a major national infrastructure programme.
This senior role will provide high-level commercial leadership across all phases of the project lifecycle, supporting successful delivery of a complex, multiyear capital investment programme.
You will oversee commercial governance, guide procurement and contract strategy, and ensure robust financial, schedule, and risk performance.
You will lead a multidisciplinary team - including cost, planning and project controls specialists - while working closely with client stakeholders, delivery partners, and industry collaborators.
Commercial Leadership:
- Lead all commercial and contractual activities across assigned programme workstreams.
- Develop contract strategies, oversee tendering and negotiations, and ensure alignment with client governance requirements.
- Manage cost planning, forecasting, benchmarking, performance reporting, and change control.
- Ensure strong commercial stewardship across the full lifecycle of the programme.
Programme & Project Controls:
- Oversee the development and maintenance of the Master Programme and capital budgets.
- Monitor schedule performance, risk exposure, earned value, and commercial progress.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting to the client and governance bodies.
Team Leadership & Collaboration:
- Lead and mentor team members including cost managers, planners, and project controls professionals.
- Foster a collaborative, high performance culture across project teams and interfaces.
- Support capability development, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Governance & Compliance:
- Ensure full compliance with client governance frameworks, public procurement requirements, and corporate procedures.
- Maintain high quality documentation and audit-ready records across all commercial, contractual, and programme control functions.
- Support business case development, assurance processes, and stakeholder engagement.
Essential Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, or related discipline.
- Professional membership (e.g., SCSI, RICS, Engineers Ireland, APM).
- Minimum 15 years’ experience delivering major infrastructure or capital programmes.
- Significant commercial leadership experience in complex, multi-disciplinary environments.
- Strong understanding of contract strategy, procurement, cost management and commercial governance.
- Experience working with NEC4, FIDIC or public sector contract frameworks.
- Proven ability to lead commercial teams and influence stakeholders at senior level.
Desirable Experience
- Experience in transportation, utilities, or other large scale public infrastructure sectors.
- Familiarity with public sector governance and business case development.
- Understanding of project risk management and safety related assurance processes.
- Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and project cost forecasting tools.
Key Competencies
- Advanced commercial and contractual management
- Strategic cost planning and financial control
- Claims management and dispute resolution
- Programme and project controls expertise
- Public procurement and tender management
- Strong leadership and team development capability
- Analytical, risk based decision-making
- Excellent communication, presentation and reporting skills
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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.