Commercial Project Manager

About the role

In this role, you will manage the commercial aspects of large-scale projects from tender through completion, including contract review, risk mitigation, and margin protection. You will oversee cash flow, forecasting, and liquidity planning, manage change orders and claims, and support dispute resolution with clients and subcontractors. Working closely with project stakeholders, you will ensure accurate project controlling, compliant documentation, and hands-on project accounting to drive successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Shape the commercial activities for large-scale projects with assessed risk factors from the development and tender phases through the preparation, implementation, and completion phases, and actively assume commercial controlling.
• Review and evaluate contractual terms and conditions and service descriptions in collaboration with the contract management team before contract conclusion, together with project stakeholders mitigate identified risks and minimize exposure, and leverage opportunities in negotiations with our clients as part of the team.
• Collaboratively support and validate and collect legally binding correspondence, ensure proper escalation processes.
• Actively create and monitor a liquidity plan as part of the team, monitor project cashflow, and enforce legitimate claims in a goal- and result-oriented manner.
• Focus on validating and collecting project claims and managing customer complaints (construction time extensions, acceleration, notifications of defects, etc.).
• Oversee project forecasting and keeping the project to margin base lines. Inclusive of collaborative dispute resolution involving subcontractors.
• Conduct project accounting transactions for projects you are responsible for.
• Partner with Project Managers to support and execute active projects, ensuring alignment across scope, schedule, and deliverables.
• Share financial responsibility on projects, including budget oversight and cost awareness, working collaboratively with Project Managers to support project financial performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering, Accounting, Business Administration, Civil Engineering, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of relevant work experience in the industry.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in commercial project management, contract management, project controlling, or project accounting within the construction or engineering industry.
• Working knowledge of contract management and project accounting.
• Experience with construction site processes, project execution workflows, and construction schedules.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel to projects, customer, or regional sites as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in commercial management or project controls for large-scale or complex construction or infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience in contract negotiations, claims management, and customer-facing commercial discussions.
• Advanced knowledge of commercial risk management, cash flow planning, forecasting, and margin control.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills with a customer-oriented mindset.
• Proven ability to work in a goal-driven, solution-oriented manner with flexibility to support project needs, including extended or non-standard working hours.

Working Conditions

• This position generally works Monday–Friday, overtime and on call when necessary.
• Travel requirements: up to 25%.
• Office environment is clean, orderly, properly lighted and ventilated. Noise levels are considered low to moderate.
• Will be required to be on site with customers or contractors, with or without colleagues to manage expectations and deliverables. Sites range from general office environments to new construction.
• Driving to customer sites is required. Limited overnight travel may be required.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to effectively communicate in English (see, hear, speak and write clearly) in order to communicate with colleagues and/or customers.
• Manual dexterity required for occasional reaching, lifting of light office objects, and operating office equipment.
• Sitting, standing, walking in office environments and construction sites.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and may be required to work at heights over 1.8m (6 feet).

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K w/ company match
• Life/AD&D/LTD
• Paid Vacation/Sick/Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance