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.

We’re looking for someone who brings genuine passion and enthusiasm to 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.

• A degree, or equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline, ideally commercial in a rail setting.
• Relevant post‑graduate experience within commercial and project environments.
• Strong MS Excel skills and confidence using similar tools to analyse, manage and report commercial data.
• Solid working knowledge of NEC 3/4 contract administration.
• The ability to produce clear, well‑structured reports and deliver information confidently through presentations and meetings.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with clients, stakeholders and project teams.
• Experience planning project timescales, resources and commercial inputs, with the ability to monitor and report progress against programme and budget.
• An understanding of fee structures and cost drivers across different project stages, with the ability to support effective commercial decision‑making (desirable but not essential).

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Work on landmark projects around the world and embrace opportunities to make an even bigger impact in the communities you care about. What if you could do the best work of your life and create a legacy for yourself?

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