Commercial Manager

**Locations**
- Toronto, Canada / Vancouver, Canada

**Country**
- Canada

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Various

**Discipline**
- Project programme and commercial management

**Job ref**
- 10508

**Recruiter contact**
- Faiqa Shahid

At Mott MacDonald, we trust our brilliant people to do brilliant things in engineering, management, and development services, supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries. As one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through our network of 20,000+ talented consultants. With sustainability and innovation at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including, Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.

We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work. Join us and be part of a collaborative environment where your ambitions are united with ours, and you can truly shape your story.

As the Commercial representative on the project, the duties of the Project Commercial Manager will include
- Commercial/Contractual Management for major infrastructure projects.
- Manage and ensure implementation of commercial processes and procedures to deliver key commercial requirements for the business and achieve continuous improvement.
- Work closely with the contractors ensuring that all relationships are professionally and appropriately managed to provide commercial services to the Client to agreed standards.
- Ensure effective commercial management of contracts with contractors to agree and certify payments; disallowed cost; contract changes; analysis, negotiation and agreement of claims and settlement of final accounts.
- Lead commercial progress meetings with contractors.
- Support the resident engineering team and embed commercial practices and expertise on contracts and deliver a consistent approach for the management of commercial issues, ensuring that appropriate contemporaneous records are kept supporting commercial negotiations.
- Provide mentoring, training and development to the resident engineering team on administrative duties and responsibilities under the works contracts.
- Project budget/expenditure forecasting.
- Management of change control on behalf of the Client.
- Subcontract procurement approval.
- Subcontract final account approval.
- Estimating/pricing of new/ additional scope.
- Report writing for change/governance.
- All other post contract commercial requirements as necessary.
- In summary, the role is to satisfy the needs of our client at project level, whilst corporately helping to develop Mott MacDonald’s hydro power capability.
- 5-7 years of professional experience with relevant commercial management, project management or engineering degree, and experience in the following disciplines:

- Contract management / Contract administration
- Commercial management / Claims management
- Cost control / Project budgeting
- Project Management
- Procurement
- Project planning
- Estimating

Essential Skills/Requirements:

- Excellent report writing skills.
- Ability to prioritize and able to work under pressure.
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work.
- Willingness to work overseas on international projects
- Technically and commercially aware able to deliver on all post-contract service delivery and to solve problems.
- Proactive and self-motivated.
- Effective time management - efficient and adding value to projects
- Customer focus - ability to engage in sound relationships with the customer project team
- The ability to communicate internally and externally with senior stakeholders with strong networking and influencing skills.
- Excellent negotiation, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Significant experience in administering contracts and commercial strategies aligned to business drivers and operational goals.
- The ability to operate within a commercially sound governance model.

Our teams are comprised of bright and enthusiastic people who wish to make a difference to the world that we live in. If you share that vision and don’t have all the experience outlined in this posting, **we still want to hear from you**

Let’s discuss how we can help you take the next step in your career and how you can participate in an exciting new chapter for Mott MacDonald in North America.

In compliance with the B.C. Pay Transparency Act, the expected salary range is from **$93,000 - $113,000**

We seek to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

**Hybrid working policy**
- At Mott MacDon