Commercial Manager, Rail

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Our Rail business is seeking a Commercial Manager to work across our portfolio of projects and provide commercial leadership to our multi‑disciplinary project teams delivering a huge range of complex infrastructure for clients including Network Rail, TfL, LUL, HS2 and Crossrail.

Your role will be to embed a strong project culture around commercial excellence, balanced with the need to satisfy client, staff and commercial expectations along with business operational performance. You’ll be highly collaborative, a natural problem solver and well used to tackling the myriad challenges that complex infrastructure projects can present.

The behaviours we will see from this role will include a passion and enthusiasm for our work, a constructively challenging mindset and an open, honest and accountable approach. You’ll be tenacious in solving issues, seeking improvement and demonstrating inclusive and respectful behaviours in all your interactions.

Whilst the role is commercially focussed, it requires an individual with proven skills and experience across aspects of business operations including understanding technical issues; people management; application of corporate systems; work winning; recruitment and staff development.

• Manage and deliver commercial services to both internal and external clients across a variety of rail infrastructure schemes. Provide risk and commercial advice during the bid and project lifecycle to assess performance and provide support to the wider business.
• Ensure suitable prospect governance is in place.
• With support from the finance team provide effective reporting and forecasting of the commercial performance of projects within the Rail business.
• Carry out detailed analyses of projects and report on the issues and findings from both a commercial and financial perspective.
• Ensure changes are managed rigorously with a focus on commercial implications of change, manage commercial risk and opportunity generally.
• Ensure that activities meet both internal company standards and external requirements. Support the commercial team’s business improvement initiatives.

• You will join a team of professionally qualified, diverse, talented individuals who collaborate to:
• Undertake project work from across the design lifecycle, including early concept stage to detail design
• Deliver projects for Network Rail, HS2, Transport for The North, TfGM, Nexus, Local Authorities, Principal Contractors and Private Developers
• Reporting to a senior member of our Commercial team, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and challenging multi‑disciplinary rail stations projects around.

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Relevant Post Graduate experience.
• Excellent MS Excel and similar Skills
• Good working knowledge of NEC 3/4 Contract Administration.
• Good report production and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
• Ability to plan project timescales, resources and commercially, being able to report progress against programme and against budget. Good understanding of fee costs to deliver projects at the various stages is desirable.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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