Project Commercial Manager

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We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centres driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience.

We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration. Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.

As a Project Commercial Manager you will lead and manage the commercial and financial performance of projects from bid through to close-out, ensuring rigorous project cost control, accurate forecasting, effective risk and opportunity management, strong commercial governance, and delivery of agreed margin and profitability targets. The role is responsible for safeguarding project financial performance through proactive cost management, early intervention, and robust change control through rigorous cost control, proactive management of scope change, robust change control processes and effective recovery of additional services.

We are looking for a commercially astute, proactive and confident professional with strong interpersonal and leadership skills. You will be comfortable operating in a client-facing environment, able to influence at senior levels, and capable of managing commercial risk and opportunity across complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You will bring a collaborative mindset, sound judgement, and the ability to work under pressure while maintaining focus on value, profitability and governance.

• Develop and own project cost control plans, establishing cost baselines, budgets, recovery plans and key financial performance indicators.
• Monitor project expenditure against budget on a monthly basis, identifying variances and implementing corrective actions to protect margin.
• Challenge project teams on resource utilisation, productivity, scope management and cost efficiency opportunities.
• Proactively identify, quantify and document scope changes, additional services and out-of-scope activities arising during project delivery.
• Work with Senior Project Managers and project teams to ensure all scope changes are promptly communicated to clients and managed in accordance with contractual notification and change management procedures.
• Maintain a comprehensive change register, tracking the status, value and commercial recovery of all proposed and approved changes.
• Ensure no additional work is undertaken without appropriate commercial authorisation and contractual…