About The Role
Project Commercial Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough / Hybrid
Shape the commercial heartbeat of one of the UK’s most ambitious water programmes
Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
To help us deliver even greater value, control risk, and drive outperformance, we’re recruiting a Project Commercial Manager to lead commercial and cost management across a project (or portfolio) from inception to close‑out.
What You’ll Be Doing
Commercial strategy & procurement
- Produce and validate robust estimates aligned to scope
- Support commercial and procurement strategy alongside Senior Buyers, ensuring compliant tender processes
- Prepare and manage subcontracts, ensuring they reflect agreed scope and are administered in line with contract
Cost management & performance reporting
- Deliver accurate live forecasting, aligned to programme and reported against WBS/CBS
- Monitor actual costs vs baseline, challenge variance, and drive resolution
- Provide clear cost reporting, identifying root causes, trends, and corrective actions
Contract & governance
- Ensure the Alliance contract is administered effectively (including NEC compliance)
- Oversee timely issue of early warnings and advise the Integrated Projects Leader on compliance and commercial decisions
- Maintain audit‑ready records and support cost assurance processes
- Drive timely and accurate final account completion
Risk, opportunity & efficiencies
- Ensure mitigation plans are in place, owned, and delivered
- Proactively manage opportunities – identifying and implementing value‑adding actions
- Track efficiencies and flag variances; report withheld/disputed/disallowed costs promptly
Team leadership
- Lead and develop a small team – mentoring individuals and supporting growth and capability
Who We’re Looking For
We’re keen to speak to candidates who can bring a confident, commercially‑savvy mindset and thrive in a collaborative, high‑pace programme.
You’ll Ideally Have
- Degree‑level education and/or RICS / CIOB / CICES (preferred)
- Demonstrable experience managing complex, multi‑million‑pound projects/programmes
- Strong NEC contract experience (and confidence in change, forecasting, and commercial governance)
- The resilience to manage change and the confidence to challenge constructively
- Excellent stakeholder management – able to build trust across multi‑partner teams
Why Work for Us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.
To find out how we are making this a reality, visit https://www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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.
Disability Confidence
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. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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