About The Role
Balfour Beatty is recruiting for a Commercial Manager to support the HS2 Project. The Commercial Manager is responsible for the overall commercial performance of assigned projects or programmes, providing strategic commercial leadership to ensure effective cost control, robust contract management, and full compliance with governance requirements. The role is critical to the successful delivery of commercial objectives aligned with the wider business strategy.
This position will play a key role in supporting the delivery of major utilities and infrastructure works across the project, proactively managing commercial risk while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance.
Responsibilities
- Provide commercial leadership across projects or programmes, setting and maintaining commercial strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Act as the senior commercial advisor to project leadership teams, providing clear, timely, and pragmatic commercial guidance.
- Contribute to bid, tender, and negotiation strategies, including risk allocation and commercial positioning.
- Oversee the administration and management of contracts, typically under NEC3/NEC4 or equivalent forms.
- Ensure effective cost management, forecasting, and reporting, including oversight of CVRs and financial performance.
- Lead the management of change, compensation events, and commercial negotiations.
- Provide strategic oversight of subcontract and supply chain commercial arrangements.
- Own and manage commercial risk at project or portfolio level, ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, mitigated, and reported.
- Ensure compliance with internal commercial controls, delegated authorities, and governance frameworks.
- Support audits, assurance reviews, and senior level reporting, maintaining a robust commercial audit trail.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, JV partners, supply chain organisations, and internal stakeholders.
- Support dispute avoidance and, where necessary, lead or contribute to dispute resolution processes.
- Present commercial performance updates to senior management and executive leadership teams.
- Line manage, mentor, and develop commercial teams, including Managing QSs, Senior QSs, and QSs where applicable.
- Support resource planning, succession, and capability development within the commercial function.
- Promote best practice, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across the business.
Qualifications
- An organised, innovative, and commercially astute Commercial Manager with a strong commitment to continuous learning and experience across diverse projects and portfolios.
- Significant experience in a commercial leadership role within construction or infrastructure.
- Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts (NEC3/NEC4) and UK construction commercial practices.
- Proven track record of managing cost, risk, change, and commercial performance on complex projects or programmes.
- Experience operating within multi-stakeholder environments, including frameworks and joint ventures.
- Excellent leadership, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Strong commercial judgement with the ability to operate confidently at both strategic and operational levels.
- Demonstrates a consistent track record of working to tight deadlines, delivering work efficiently and to a high standard, and proactively managing opportunities, risks, and threats with resilience, determination, and a strong achievement focus.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 37.5 hours Monday to Friday (part‑time applicants welcomed).
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, as well as opportunities for remote working where the role allows.
- Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
About Us
Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and Women Into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
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