Balfour Beatty plc
Commercial Manager
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty is recruiting for a Commercial Manager to support the ASTI Framework, delivering critical transmission infrastructure projects across North/ East Scotland.
The Commercial Manager plays a key role in driving commercial excellence, operational efficiency, and financial performance across the Power business. The role supports project teams by developing and improving commercial processes, systems, reporting tools, and data management practices that enhance decision-making and deliver consistent best practice.
Working closely with Commercial, Finance, and Operational teams, the Commercial Manager provides guidance, assurance, and challenge to ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly, and profitably. The role champions continuous improvement, supports change initiatives, and helps embed robust commercial governance across the business.
What you'll be doing
- Provide commercial support and guidance to project teams across the portfolio.
- Promote and implement best practice commercial processes, systems, and reporting standards.
- Identify commercial risks and opportunities at an early stage and support project teams in developing appropriate mitigation or improvement plans.
- Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, company procedures, governance requirements, and commercial policies.
- Undertake commercial health checks and assurance reviews to identify areas for improvement and support corrective actions.
- Review and analyse project financial performance to maximise profitability and cash generation.
- Support project teams with forecasting, budgeting, cost control, and financial reporting activities.
- Lead or support Applications for Payment (AFP) processes to maximise cash collection and working capital performance.
- Maintain, develop, and enhance portfolio-level dashboards and reporting for senior leadership teams.
- Assist with project cash flow forecasting and financial reconciliation activities.
- Ensure accurate use and management of financial and commercial data, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and associated reporting tools.
- Drive process improvement initiatives that simplify ways of working and increase efficiency across project teams.
- Support the development and enhancement of commercial and financial systems to improve reporting accuracy and business insight.
- Provide training, coaching, and guidance to project teams on commercial systems, processes, and data management.
- Analyse rates, prices, compensation events, and variations where required to support project delivery and commercial outcomes.
- Support the development of standardised reporting, templates, and documentation for use across the wider Power business.
- Mentor and support junior commercial team members, sharing knowledge and encouraging professional development.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing culture through coaching, engagement, and continuous learning.
- Maintain an active Personal Development Plan and support the development of others within the wider commercial community.
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Who we're looking for
- Significant experience in a senior commercial, financial, or project controls environment within infrastructure, utilities, construction, or engineering sectors.
- Strong understanding of commercial management principles, project finance, cost control, forecasting, and reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills.
- Experience supporting large-scale or complex projects.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Membership of RICS, ICES, CIOB, CICES, or equivalent professional body (or working towards membership).
- Experience of NEC contracts and compensation event management.
- Experience developing reporting tools, dashboards, and commercial systems.
- Knowledge of ERP and project management systems.
- Proven track record of leading business improvement or transformation initiatives.
- Experience working across multi-disciplinary project teams.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 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…
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About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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