Commercial Manager

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Project Overview:

This role will support an infrastructure and transportation program under a collaborative partnership. Team members will be an important part of a multidisciplinary environment focused on delivering innovative, sustainable, and long-term mobility solutions to enhance connectivity and support regional growth. The program offers the opportunity to work alongside industry-leading professionals on one of the most significant transportation infrastructure initiatives currently in development

Job Summary:

The Commercial Manager will be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the project’s day-to-day commercial/business service operations.  Highly experienced in managing commercial and contracts functions for major programs from inception through completion.  The position reports operationally to the Project Manager and functionally to the GBU Manager of Prime Contracts. Duties and responsibilities include implementation of the Project Commercial and Prime Contract Management Programs and ongoing related training, monitoring compliance with project/prime contract completion requirements and status.  In consultation with GBU Management/Legal, facilitate strategies for effective management of project commercial matters, including creation and capture of contemporaneous records. #LI-JL1 

Major Responsibilities:

• Responsible for/assists with the development and implementation of the Prime Contract Management Program for the project, consistent with the prime contract and Project Management Plan.
• Assess prime contract general terms and conditions to highlight areas of risk such as ambiguities, conflicts, or deviations for the scope of work. 
• Coordinate with other project team members to identify client-related actions/inactions that need to be addressed. Recommend approaches and implement appropriate actions to document events, respond to the situation, and/or request appropriate variations on the project.
• Participate in project related meetings, prepare necessary materials, track actions, and manage the working relationship with the relevant departments to facilitate prime contract administration.
• Support implementation and management of a program to recognize and identify progress/performance concerns, prepare changes/variations as they arise and manage the timely resolution under the applicable provisions whenever possible.
• Develop/maintain tools and processes to support contract compliance, sound administration and reporting for Project Manager/Project Management Team, including logs, registers, dashboards, reports, and other materials. 
• Coordinate the development and delivery of ongoing project training to address prime contract management principles, and facilitate the identification, preparation, and resolution of changes/variations and claims.
• Coordinate effectively with a broad range of customers and stakeholders to solve complex business-related issues.
• Communicate effectively verbally and/or in writing regarding all commercial matters, including preparation of key materials - drafting of correspondence, memos, guidance notes, chronologies, narratives, and position papers related to project commercial matters and issues.
• Assist with development and capture of contemporaneous records and production of information necessary to substantiate project commercial matters.
• Manage/conduct extensive factual, technical, and contractual research; perform required analysis; prepare reports, presentations, and briefing materials.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Degree in Business, Quantity Surveying, Law, Engineering, Construction Management or Cost Engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 18+ years of relevant prior work experience.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of commercial/business management functions with work experience of a progressively responsible nature on large, complex projects. 
• Demonstrable experience of delivering in collaborative working arrangements.
• Demonstratable experience of managing contracts of various commercial terms and incentivization model structures/types.
• Exercises autonomy in decisions with a long-term impact on the project.

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