Senior Commercial Manager

About The Role

The Senior Commercial Manager is responsible for the end‑to‑end commercial and financial management of major, complex infrastructure projects, often valued in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

This role covers the full project lifecycle, including project inception, tendering, contract negotiation, procurement strategy, and commercial delivery.

As a core member of the Project and Business Unit senior leadership teams, the Senior Commercial Manager holds full accountability for commercial performance, financial control, and risk management, ensuring projects are delivered in line with contractual, commercial, and governance requirements.

This position will act as the dedicated Commercial Lead for two major ASTI (Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment) projects in Scotland:

• Emmock–Hurlie Overhead Line (OHL) New Build
• Alyth–Tealing / Tealing–Westfield OHL Refurbishment

The combined value of these projects is circa £1bn, requiring a full‑time, dedicated Senior Commercial Manager in line with the scale, complexity, and commercial demands of the works.

This is a critical leadership role within Power T&D, offering the opportunity to work on nationally significant infrastructure projects and to play a key role in shaping commercial strategy and delivery across the ASTI portfolio.

• Provide commercial input to Value Engineering reviews for different forms of construction.
• Co‑ordinate the commercial team to ensure programme issues are identified and actioned.
• Manage the preparation of the monthly CVR and associated commercial reports.
• Report and explain the commercial progress to senior divisional staff.
• Establish client supply chain requirements and advise on alternative forms of contract and procurement arrangements.
• Apply legislation and liaise with legal experts.
• Prepare estimates and tender submissions including the interpretation of specifications and preambles.
• Coordinate buying, accounts, production control/planning, supply chain management & procurement techniques, estimating & surveying functions.
• Manage disallowed cost.
• Oversee and give advice on training & development, including professional development.

• Exceptional negotiation, leadership and communication skills, coupled with the ability to influence through others.
• Proactively develop, mentor and coach immediate and wider team members to ensure talent development and succession within the team.
• Demonstrate working to deadlines, effective delegation and the ability to work efficiently to a high standard.
• Excellent communication skills with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate resilience, determination and an achievement focus.
• Proactively manage opportunities, risks and threats.
• Be an organised, innovative, and creative Senior Commercial Manager with in‑depth knowledge and experience of working on projects and portfolios.
• Lead on collating costs and maximising value on a large project or portfolio of projects.

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.
• Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES or CIOB.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabil