Commercial Manager

Recruit4staff are representing a leading civil engineering business in their search for a Commercial Manager to work in Seascale

Job Details:

• Pay: Circa £90,000 (Negotiable depending on skillset and experience)
• Hours of Work: Full Time, Monday to Friday, Days (45 hours)
• Duration: Permanent
• Benefits: Car allowance £6,325, 8% employer pension contribution, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Job Role: As Commercial Manager, you will oversee all commercial, contractual, and financial management activities for a major civils and infrastructure package within a complex and highly regulated setting. You will ensure that commercial processes, cost management systems, and contract controls are robust, compliant, and aligned with NEC procedures.
Working alongside project managers, planners, engineers, supply chain partners, and regulatory stakeholders, you will lead commercial governance, cost forecasting, compensation event management, subcontract administration, change control, reporting, and risk/commercial strategy.
You will play a critical role in ensuring commercial assurance, value protection, accurate financial reporting, and successful commercial outcomes across all phases of the project.
This Commercial Manager role requires a commercially focused leader with strong NEC expertise and experience on major civil engineering or infrastructure projects.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Commercial Manager on large civil engineering or infrastructure projects
• Strong competence with NEC3/NEC4 contract administration, especially ECC forms
• Experience managing cost control, forecasting, CVRs, change management, and subcontract packages
• Ability to lead commercial reviews, client reporting, and stakeholder interfacing
• Strong understanding of risk management, early warnings, compensation events, and programme impacts
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and client-facing skills
• High level of commercial governance, accuracy, and attention to detail
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance (SC)

Advantageous Skills, Experience, or Qualifications

• Experience with major remediation, decommissioning, or high-complexity civil engineering works
• Chartered status (MRICS or working towards chartership)
• Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or related discipline

Commutable From: Drigg, Seascale, Egremont, Whitehaven, Cleator Moor, Gosforth, Workington, St Bees, Nethertown, Holmrook, Ravenglass

Similar Job Titles: Commercial Manager, Senior Quantity Surveyor, Managing Quantity Surveyor, Contracts Manager, NEC Commercial Manager, Project Commercial Lead, Senior Commercial Lead

For further information about this and other positions please apply now. This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or employment business.

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