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Overview
The Commercial Manager is responsible for commercial and financial management across a portfolio of projects delivered under NEC4 contracts. The role ensures robust cost control, forecasting, change management, and contract compliance, while supporting Project Managers and Directors to deliver projects to time, cost and contractual obligations.
The role operates across multiple simultaneous commissions, providing consistency of approach to financial governance, contract administration, risk management and reporting, and acting as a trusted commercial adviser to both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Your role
- Lead the commercial management of NEC4 contracts (including PSC and ECC as applicable), ensuring contractual processes are applied consistently and correctly across projects.
- Manage and administer contractual mechanisms including Early Warnings, Compensation Events, change control, programme impacts and entitlement assessments.
- Provide commercial advice and challenge to Project Managers on contract risk, compliance, and commercial strategy.
- Support preparation, review and agreement of contractual correspondence, notices, assessments and records.
- Maintain a clear audit trail demonstrating compliance with contract conditions and agreed procedures.
- Establish and maintain robust financial controls across a live portfolio of projects, ensuring consistency in cost management and reporting.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, cashflow and earned value, identifying variances and risks at an early stage.
- Produce accurate, timely and reliable monthly financial reports at portfolio / department level.
Support period‑end processes, including accruals, revenue recognition and reconciliation with financial systems. - Provide clear commercial performance insight to senior management, highlighting risks, opportunities and trends across the portfolio / department.
- Lead commercial change management, ensuring that scope changes are identified early, assessed correctly and implemented in line with NEC4 procedures.
- Maintain commercial risk and opportunity registers, working with Project Managers to develop mitigation strategies.
- Assess the commercial implications of programme changes, scope growth, resourcing variations and client instructions.
- Support resolution of commercial issues and disputes through structured, evidence‑based approaches.
- Work closely with Project Managers, Project Directors and discipline leads to embed strong commercial behaviours across project teams.
- Act as a key commercial interface with clients and supply chain partners, supporting transparent and professional engagement.
- Support negotiations and agreement of commercial matters while protecting the organisation's contractual position.
- Contribute to a collaborative project culture aligned with NEC principles of mutual trust and cooperation.
- Ensure projects operate in compliance with internal commercial governance, approval thresholds and delegated authorities.
- Maintain and improve commercial processes, templates and controls to support consistent delivery across the portfolio.
- Support audits and internal reviews by providing clear, well‑maintained commercial records.
- Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of commercial management practices.
- Mentoring of staff and lead the growth of Commercial management team
Location
Various locations
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-156700
Salary range
-
Kaushik Sharma
Hi there, I'm Kaushik Sharma and I manage this role
About you
Essential
- Strong experience as a Commercial Manager managing projects under NEC4 forms of contract.
- Proven ability to manage financial controls across multiple concurrent projects or programmes.
- Sound understanding of cost management, forecasting, change control and commercial risk.
- Experience supporting Project Managers with commercial strategy and contract compliance.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to present clear, concise commercial information to senior stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience working within public‑sector or regulated client environments.
- Familiarity with consultancy‑led professional services contracts.
- Experience contributing to dispute avoidance and issue resolution under NEC contracts.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?
Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries and a brilliant range of health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle benefits. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture, international remote working opportunities, and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
Additional information
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
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