Project Commercial Manager

We're looking for a Commercial Manager to join our Rail business and lead the commercial team on several exciting and challenging projects across the Manchester region.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea, or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Manchester, Lancashire

Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract: Full Time, Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Commercial Manager, you'll be working within the Kier Rail team, supporting them with the commercial aspects on a wide range of rail infrastructure projects for a diverse customer base. Our projects range from major improvements to complete construction of new stations, with specialist teams, we manage complex works from conception through to delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Establish Commercial Strategy and Framework for the project(s) and agree, amend, and monitor the effectiveness this with the (Construction) Director/Commercial Manager
• Set up necessary systems to efficiently file and retrieve information and allow others to do likewise. Archive old project material.
• Oversee and in some cases manage hands on all aspects of Subcontractor accounts.
• Manage the procurement of sub-contractors.
• Compile Project specific commercial issues for reporting and presentation at Client progress meetings

What are we looking for?

This role of Commercial Manager is great for you if:

• Holds the relevant qualifications (e.g., Degree in Quantity Surveying)
• You have experience within the rail, construction or civils industry.
• Experience within a similar role
• Experience of identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .

We look forward to seeing your application to join the