Pre Construction - Commercial Manager

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Job Description

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Role Title: Pre-Construction Commercial Manager

Business Unit: Asset Intelligence

Location: Warrington or London

Role Purpose

The Pre‑Construction Commercial Manager plays a key role in supporting the commercial governance, contractual assurance, and risk management of pre‑construction activity across the Galliford Try portfolio. Working collaboratively with estimating, legal, operational, design, and delivery teams, the role ensures bids and early‑stage projects are commercially sound, compliant, and aligned with operational delivery.

This role provides commercial leadership throughout the tender lifecycle, helping to identify, understand, and mitigate risk while supporting the preparation of competitive and high‑quality submissions. The position offers flexibility, including remote working, with travel to regional offices and client meetings as required.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide commercial input into bid and tender activity, supporting Bid / No‑Bid decisions in line with GT governance and risk appetite
• Review and assess contracts (including NEC, JCT, FIDIC, and bespoke forms) to identify commercial and delivery risk
• Work closely with Legal and internal stakeholders to agree and document mitigations, clarifications, and assumptions
• Support fee build‑ups, allowances, and risk provisions alongside the estimating team
• Ensure scope clarity, risk visibility, and commercial alignment prior to tender submission
• Support supply chain engagement at tender stage, including commercial compliance and contract alignment
• Provide early commercial insight to operational teams to support smooth project handover
• Promote collaboration, good governance, ethical procurement, and continuous improvement across pre‑construction activity

About You

• Experience in pre‑construction commercial management within a Tier 1 contractor or major subcontractor environment
• Strong working knowledge of NEC, JCT, and bespoke contract forms
• Ability to assess and communicate commercial and contractual risk clearly
• Confident communicator with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple disciplines
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable working in a flexible or remote environment

Desirable

• RICS or similar professional membership
• Experience supporting bids in complex or regulated sectors
• Familiarity with Galliford Try systems or similar governance frameworks

What We Can Offer in Return

With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we're poised for further growth and success, so if you're committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our 'Be Well' programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high‑quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office‑based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

Additional Information

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full‑time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long‑term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.

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