Commercial Manager

Location: Orwell Logistics Park, Ipswich (Hybrid: 2–3 days per week from home)
Type: Full-time, Permanent

Help deliver one of the UK's most complex and ambitious infrastructure programmes.

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) — a partnership between Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues and Balfour Beatty — is delivering the full civils scope of Sizewell C, one of the UK's largest and most high-profile nuclear projects.

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to take ownership of the commercial performance of a defined section within the SZC Civil Works Alliance — from Target Outturn Cost (TOC) development through to delivery and final account.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring robust financial control, effective risk and change management, and strong supply chain governance, while championing Health & Safety, sustainability, and digital ways of working. Acting as a trusted partner to Delivery Leadership, you will provide clear commercial insight, manage key stakeholder relationships, and safeguard the project's contractual and financial position.

Key Responsibilities

Champion Health & Safety across all commercial activities.
Support delivery of project sustainability objectives.
Ensure compliance with Alliance governance, processes and procedures.
Identify efficiency and value engineering opportunities to enhance project outcomes.
Proactively manage commercial risk, opportunity and issue resolution.
Monitor economic factors and assess their impact on project performance.
Ensure accurate review and reporting of commercial, cost and Earned Value data.
Support preparation of Target Outturn Costs (TOCs), submissions and work package requirements.
Provide timely and accurate commercial reporting to the Delivery Leadership Team.
Support procurement planning and coordinate effective supply chain management.
Represent the project's commercial and contractual interests in meetings and forums.
Administer subcontract agreements, ensuring effective change management and cost recovery.
Minimise disputes through proactive package management and early issue identification.
Contribute to team development through mentoring, feedback and cross-functional collaboration.

About You

Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline.
Strong stakeholder management capability, particularly with external suppliers.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex commercial matters clearly.
Sound understanding of construction law.
Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams.
Strong collaborative skills with experience operating within matrix organisations.

Experience mentoring and developing team members.
MRICS (or working towards).
NEC3/NEC4 contract experience.

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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