# Commercial Lead (Defence & Security)

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Our Defence and Security business is seeking a Project Commercial Lead to provide commercial leadership on a complex infrastructure project. The successful candidate will work alongside multi-disciplinary teams, play a key part in delivering major programmes for clients, and initially work on a major programme in the North West of England.

The role is central to embedding a strong project culture built on commercial excellence, while balancing client needs, people priorities, and strong operational performance. The ideal candidate will bring extensive commercial experience across complex infrastructure projects, act as a senior leader and trusted advisor, and demonstrate broad business capability.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing commercial leadership on complex infrastructure projects

- Acting as a senior leader and trusted advisor to clients and colleagues

- Working in close partnership with Defence and Security and wider WSP leadership to ensure projects are well planned and delivered successfully

- Anticipating future resource needs and supporting recruitment

- Demonstrating a strong commitment to people development and continuous improvement

- Leading with energy and clarity, and championing robust systems and processes

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate:

- Relevant professional qualifications with strong commercial and contract management expertise

- Proven experience providing commercial and project leadership across complex Defence and Security projects

- Experience in managing multi-disciplinary engineering projects and programmes

- The ability to act as commercial subject matter expert and support Programme and Project leadership

- Commercially astute with a deep understanding of major client needs

- A structured, logical problem-solver with strong knowledge of H&S legislation, CDM, and Defence and Security secure ways of working

- A working knowledge of export controls in a defence or nuclear context

- Commitment to continuous improvement, knowledge-sharing, and developing future engineers and project leaders

- Forward-thinking and opportunity-focused, contributing to business development, work winning, sustainability, and net-zero ambitions

- A recognised level of UK security clearance or eligibility to apply for it

## Skills

### Required
- commercial and contract management
- NEC4 suite of contracts
- CONTRACTS (formally CEMAR)
- project leadership
- multi-disciplinary engineering projects
- H&S legislation
- CDM
- Defence and Security secure ways of working
- export controls

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