Commercial Manager

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The Rail team within WSP’s Rail division are actively seeking a Commercial Manager to work across our diverse portfolio of projects and provide commercial leadership to our multi-disciplinary project teams delivering a huge range of complex infrastructure for clients including Network Rail, TfL, LUL, HS2 and Crossrail.

Your role will be to support the business embed a strong project culture around commercial excellence, balanced with the need to satisfy client, staff and commercial expectations along with business operational performance. You’ll be collaborative and a natural problem solver.

We are looking for people with the ability to make a difference, pro-actively manage requirements and risks and influence others to deliver successfully. Candidates must have excellent communication, problem solving and demonstrable experience in engineering management within Rail.

As Commercial Manager you will:

• Manage and deliver commercial services to both internal and external clients across a variety of rail infrastructure schemes.


• Provide risk and commercial advice during the bid and project lifecycle to assess performance and provide support to the wider business.


• Ensure suitable prospect governance is in place.


• With support from the finance team provide effective reporting and forecasting of the commercial performance of projects within the Rail business.


• Carry out detailed analyses of projects and report on the issues and findings from both a commercial and financial perspective.


• 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 requirements.


• Support the commercial team’s business improvement initiatives.

YOUR TEAM

You will join a team of professionally qualified, diverse, talented individuals who collaborate to:

• Undertake project work from across the design lifecycle, including early concept stage to detail design


• Deliver projects for Network Rail, HS2, Transport for The North, TfGM, Nexus, Local Authorities, Principal Contractors and Private Developers

Reporting to a senior member of our stations team, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting a challenging multi-disciplinary rail stations projects around.

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline


• Relevant Post Graduate experience.


• Excellent MS Excel and similar Skills


• Good working knowledge of NEC 3/4 Contract Administration.


• Good report production and presentation skills


• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills


• Ability to plan project timescales, resources and commercially, being able to report progress against programme and against budget. Good understanding of fee costs to deliver projects at the various stages is desirable.