About the role
Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Essex
Company: Balfour Beatty
Business – Living Places
About the Role
Shape the commercial success of essential local infrastructure
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in partnership with local authorities to deliver and maintain the infrastructure that keeps communities moving. From highways and public realm improvements to long-term maintenance and asset management, our teams play a vital role in creating safer, better-connected places.
We are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to join our Living Places business. This is a key commercial leadership role, responsible for managing the financial and contractual performance of projects from tender stage through to delivery, ensuring strong governance, robust cost control and positive outcomes for our customers, stakeholders and supply chain.
As Commercial Manager, you will be an integral part of the project delivery team, leading the commercial approach across projects that can be worth many millions of pounds. You will bring strong commercial awareness, confidence in client liaison, proven leadership skills and the ability to manage risk, procurement, reporting and contract performance effectively
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
You will provide commercial leadership across the contract or project, ensuring that financial performance, contractual obligations and commercial governance are managed effectively.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the preparation of monthly CVRs and associated commercial reports
- Managing commercial risk and opportunity across the project
- Supporting tender reviews, cost data analysis and target cost preparation
- Providing commercial input into value engineering reviews
- Managing procurement strategies, supply chain requirements and subcontract arrangements
- Representing the financial and contractual interests of the business in progress meetings
- Liaising with customers, stakeholders, subcontractors and the wider project team
- Ensuring programme issues are identified and commercially managed
- Managing disallowed costs and supporting strong cost control
- Feeding commercial data back into planning, estimating, marketing and sales teams
- Leading, supporting and developing commercial team members
- Supporting recruitment, retention, PDRs, training and professional development within the commercial team
Who we're looking for
We are looking for a commercially strong, confident and collaborative individual who can build relationships, lead teams and provide clear commercial direction.
You will ideally have:
- A BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying, or equivalent experience
- Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB
- Strong experience within commercial management in construction, infrastructure, highways or local authority frameworks
- Experience managing commercial teams and developing others
- Strong understanding of procurement, contract management, cost reporting and risk management
- Ability to liaise effectively with clients, stakeholders, supply chain partners and internal teams
- Excellent communication, negotiation and leadership skills
- A clear focus on governance, customer needs and achieving results
Why join Balfour Beatty Living Places?
This is an opportunity to join a business that has a direct impact on communities across the UK. In Living Places, our work is local, visible and meaningful — helping to maintain and improve the roads, public spaces and infrastructure people rely on every day.
You will be part of a supportive commercial team within Balfour Beatty, with the opportunity to lead, influence and contribute to the successful delivery of important long-term infrastructure contracts.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
- 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
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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.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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 Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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.
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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19769
