Senior Commercial Manager
Salary: £70,000 – £75,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
Location: Barnsley, Knaresborough, Widnes
Closing Date: 10th July 2026
About the Role
As Senior Commercial Manager, you will own the end-to-end commercial performance of projects and frameworks across our Engineering and Water divisions. You’ll ensure delivery is commercially robust, contractually compliant and financially successful, supporting operational teams to meet programme, cost and quality targets while protecting and enhancing margin.
Working within a construction environment, you’ll provide clear leadership, governance and control across all commercial activity. You’ll act as the senior commercial authority on projects, embedding best practice, strengthening commercial awareness and ensuring disciplined contract administration in line with NEC and other key contract frameworks.
You will lead the development and execution of commercial strategy to drive sustainable growth, effective risk management and long‑term profitability. Alongside this, you’ll build, mentor and inspire a high‑performing commercial team, championing professional standards and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the commercial function across projects and frameworks, driving profitability, cash flow and cost control.
- Oversee all pre‑contract activities including tender review, commercial strategy, pricing and contract negotiation.
- Establish and enforce robust commercial processes, including governance, reporting and approval mechanisms.
- Maintain full contractual compliance, ensuring obligations are understood, administered and enforced.
- Manage change control in line with contractual requirements (particularly NEC compensation events), ensuring value recovery and risk mitigation.
- Produce accurate forecasting, cost value reconciliation (CVR) and cash flow management across all projects.
- Lead the preparation and submission of applications for payment and ensure timely cash collection.
- Provide commercial reporting and insight to senior leadership, enabling informed decision making.
- Act as a key interface with clients, building strong, trusted relationships and ensuring commercial alignment.
- Lead, develop and mentor commercial and project teams, raising overall commercial capability and awareness.
- Identify, assess and manage commercial and contractual risks across the project lifecycle.
- Support site teams through provision of accurate cost, valuation and contractual advice.
- Accountable for commercial governance of major projects, ensuring robust risk management, cost control and margin protection.
Ideal Candidate
- Proven track record in commercial management within construction, infrastructure or engineering sectors.
- Fanatically competent in NEC3 and NEC4 contracts, with deep practical understanding of compensation events, early warning processes, programme management, payment mechanisms, risk allocation and dispute avoidance.
- Strong financial acumen including cost control, forecasting and financial analysis.
- Ability to manage and interpret complex contractual arrangements and implement best practice contract administration.
- Excellent negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading and developing commercial teams within a project environment.
- Highly analytical and detail‑oriented with a structured and process‑driven approach.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the business and with clients.
- Proactive, resilient and commercially astute with the ability to operate under pressure and manage competing priorities.
- Relevant commercial, financial or construction‑related qualifications, and ideally professional accreditation (e.g., RICS, NEC PM).
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
- Company car
- Bonus scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Westfield Health (support with dental, optical and physiotherapy costs)
- Hargreaves Rewards – retail and lifestyle discounts
- Company pension scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life insurance
About Us
Hargreaves Industrial Services Ltd is a quality assured contracting company delivering EPC turnkey projects, framework contracts and term service operation and maintenance contracts across a wide range of industrial markets in the UK. As an established contract management Company, we provide high standard, professional services to our clients within the power, port, steel, rail and other industrial sectors both within the UK and abroad. Our core services include:
- Materials Handling expertise, offering efficient and optimal solutions for all bulk handling requirements
- Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance and Engineering
- Operation and Maintenance of Material Handling Plants
As a Company, we pride ourselves on our service delivery and professional ‘can do’ attitude and we are always looking for committed, keen, professional people to join us.
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