# Commercial Manager (Water)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Our Water business is seeking a **Commercial Manager** (quantity surveyor level) to work across our portfolio of projects and provide commercial leadership to multi-disciplinary teams; the role plays a crucial part in delivering key infrastructure for clients including the Environment Agency, tier 1 contractors, local authorities and water companies.

You will 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.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Manage and deliver commercial services to both internal and external clients across a variety of water and environmental sector projects.

- 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 Water 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.

**Requirements**

- A degree (or equivalent professional experience), in a relevant discipline.

- A background in quantity surveying AND project commercial management.

- Advanced 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).

- A mind that is open to the opportunities presented by the adoption of AI.

## Skills

### Required
- quantity surveying
- project commercial management
- MS Excel
- NEC 3/4 contract administration
- report writing
- presentation skills
- interpersonal skills
- communication skills
- project planning

### Nice to have
- fee structures
- cost drivers
- AI adoption

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