Commercial Manager Full-time Job

Your new role, what's involved?

Operational Excellence and Expertise:

Support the T&I Business Unit to mitigate commercial risks across all aspects of the BU’s activities.

Actively involved in preparing strategies to manage risks and opportunities; executing on those strategies including appropriate correspondence, notices, record keeping, and participate in key commercial meetings and follow up.

Manage commercial risk and returns and ensure commercial standards, procedures and processes are applied across all commercial activities.

Participate in regular project reviews as per the WSP ME criteria, helping to identify opportunities and risks to WSP’s financial performance and ensuring allocated actions are progressed.

Ensure the online O&R register is accurate with values and status remarks always current.

People & Culture:

Monitor and advise Project Leaders, other team members of potential or actual risks arising from Main Contract, Subcontracts and/ or from performance of the Works.

Work with the Legal team in negotiating any final settlements on contract terms with our clients and sub-consultants

Assist our Project Leaders in all matters relating to the commercial and contractual aspects of the projects and in negotiating any final settlements on contract terms with our clients. I analyze the financial accounts and monthly reporting to assess working capital risks and revenue recognition providing good judgement and advice as required.

Actively work with the working capital team to ensure disputed or delayed invoices are settled and payments are made at the earliest time.

Provide support to our Prospect Leaders with responses to post tender clarifications.

Provide support to Finance team to update status comments for regular Global Reporting.

Clients & Projects:

Support our projects on key change/claim submissions including variations, extension of time, prolongation etc. and reach agreements with our clients.

Assist and support our project leaders in the delivery of our projects on time, within budget and to the required quality standards including contractual, commercial, risk/ opportunity and change management.

Provide support to our Prospect Leaders with contract negotiations and ensuring favorable terms and conditions.

Prepare relevant commercial correspondence to clients.

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With 2300 talented people in 8 offices across the Middle East we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.