Commercial Manager

**Johnathan Thurston Academy**

Taking employment back to basics. We simply introduce jobseeker to jobs It's that simple.

The Johnathan Thurston Academy, with Lendlease as our major employment partner, has a unique collaborative employment zone. The goal and focus is to connect job seekers to all of our employment partners throughout the nation. We aim to ensure that all opportunities for potential connections are both exhausted and managed in the one zone. We have created a unique and sophisticated platform that streamlines all employment opportunities between job seekers and employers.

**Client: Lendlease**
**Location: Sydney North**
**Position: Full time**

**REQ-7056571**

Lendlease is a globally integrated real estate and investment group with core expertise in shaping cities and creating strong and connected communities.

Being bold and innovative characterises our approach and doing what matters defines our intent.

We create award-winning urban precincts, new communities for older people and young families just starting out, retail precincts, and work places to the highest sustainability standards. We are also privileged to create essential civic and social infrastructure including state-of-the-art hospitals, universities and stadiums around the world.

Headquartered in Sydney, our people are located in four operating regions: Australia, Europe, the Americas and Asia.

The Lendlease User Experience team provide project management, design and construction services to our national and multi-national corporate clients across broad property portfolios. The Lendlease User Experience group specialises in developing efficient property portfolio solutions which involve the delivery of commercial, retail, specialist housing and fuel sector for fit out, refurbishment and building projects.

The Commercial Manager will be responsible for fulfilling the commercial function on a newly secured design and construct project including head contract compliance, optimising margin and managing commercial risk. As a senior member of the project team, the Commercial Manager will work closely with the Project Director and other project staff to provide strategic commercial and procurement support in the delivery of the project.

In this role you will also provide support on all cost and contract deliverables, ensuring that the head contract and all subcontracts are administered with best practice governance across the entire project life-cycle. The Commercial Manager will professionally manage cost and value, and mitigate commercial risk whilst assisting in maintaining client and other key stakeholder relationships.

This opportunity may suit a Senior Contract Administrator who is ready to take the step in their career into commercial management having experience within a main contractor environment in a similar project-based role on other building projects across a range of sectors including housing, commercial or the retail sectors. In this lead role you will possess exceptional stakeholder management skills, the ability to work independently to resolve contractual issues and demonstrate the drive to coach and mentor others.

At Lendlease, we invest in you professionally and personally so that you perform to your full potential to leave behind positive legacies in years to come.

**Benefits**
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Health & Well-being program, including 3x extra well-being leave to relax and recharge
- Health assessments, and gym/exercise discounts
- Bonus scheme, Employee Share Acquisition program and options for salary sacrificing
- Community Day, Community Services & Volunteer Leave
- 18 weeks paid paternity leave for primary carers

Lendlease is a diverse, flexible and inclusive employer of choice. We engage, enable and empower our people. Inclusion sets all of us up for success.

We embrace the value of a vibrant and diverse workforce and recognise that our people have different experiences and needs at different times. Lendlease is a diverse, flexible and inclusive employer of choice. We engage, enable and empower our people and support their individual needs. Inclusion sets us all up for success.