Senior Commercial Manager

Overview

Senior Commercial Manager to lead commercial management of a major government FM contract under NEC4. You will mobilise and manage the contract, monitor obligations, and drive commercial performance, change, and risk mitigation. You will coordinate with finance, procurement, and operations to ensure accurate invoicing, cost forecasting, and revenue recovery.

The role offers exposure to senior stakeholders and a small team, with significant scope to improve margins and commercial processes.

Pay / Benefits

• remote working
• travel to key sites as required

• Oversee commercial management and administration of a major NEC4 government contract
• Support mobilisation and ongoing contract management to meet milestones and obligations
• Review terms for risks, obligations, and opportunities; identify discrepancies
• Manage high volume of change requests, variations, notices, and claims
• Oversee commercial processes for additional works and billable activity
• Ensure accurate contract data, documentation and supporting evidence
• Utilise commercial systems and reporting tools to analyse data and identify trends
• Collaborate with finance to ensure invoicing and revenue recovery
• Track variations, claims and their financial impact; support budgeting and forecasting with Finance BP
• Identify opportunities to maximise entitlements and mitigate commercial risk
• Liaise with procurement, project teams, clients and subcontractors to resolve issues
• Monitor compliance with contractual, legal, and regulatory obligations
• Identify and mitigate commercial risks; develop appropriate strategies
• Lead and develop a small commercial team (approx. 3-4 reports)

• Commercial management experience in large-scale FM, facilities, construction, or service-led environments
• Experience with NEC3 and/or NEC4 contracts and contract administration
• Quantity Surveying or similar commercial background
• Strong understanding of variations, claims, change control, WIP and revenue recovery
• Ability to work in high-volume data and transactional environments
• Commercially astute with negotiation and entitlement protection
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Experience managing and developing a small commercial team
• BPSS clearance required

• Stakeholder management
• Negotiation
• Attention to detail
• NEC3/NEC4 contract administration
• Contract management and administration
• Variations, claims, change control