Commercial Manager

Newcastle, AU**About the John Holland & Gamuda Joint Venture**:
The John Holland & Gamuda Joint Venture have been awarded the M1 Pacific Motorway from Black Hill to Tomago within the City of Newcastle and Port Stephens Council local government areas. This major project will provide increased road capacity via the 10KM of new dual carriageway, reducing congestion and travel times for residents, improving accessibility for the surrounding road network and improved road safety for all users.

While our competitors talk about what they do, we focus on why we do it. We transform communities to make them easier to move around, more connected and better to live in.

**About the Role**:
We are looking to engage with experienced **Commercial Managers** with the capability to lead the Commercial function on a large Road project.

You will work with a high performing and supportive team of senior delivery staff who will work with you to deliver both the project and your career aspirations.

This role will see you utilise your people and stakeholder management, technical and commercial skills on a major infrastructure project within a safe, engaging and high performing team environment.

**About You**:

- You will see yourself as an established Contracts Manager or Commercial Manager looking to further your career in a key leadership role within a top tier contractor on a major project.
- You will have a clear drive to achieve quality commercial outcomes and have demonstrated success in a similar role - we are interested in your skill base and potential, not the size of your past projects.
- You will provide commercial and contractual support on pre-contract and post-contract matters and issues to ensure successful financial outcomes are achieved by the project.
- You will support both the delivery and commercial teams by providing advice to about contractual issues and mentoring of team members on contractual issues and strategies.
- You will provide commercial guidance to the Infrastructure business unit on contract and risk management, including costings and programming strategies.
- You will lead a passionate team of commercially minded professionals, whilst also growing the team’s technical and leadership skills.

**What’s in it for you when you join John Holland & Gamuda Joint Venture**:
We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

**We Offer**:
**Competitive remuneration **with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice packaging options available.

**Great leave benefits** including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and wellbeing.

**Career progression** underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

**Learning and development opportunities** where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, and technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

**Inclusion and diversity** is part of how we work and do what we do at John Holland. Our active commitment to being an employer of choice is evident in the delivery of our Gender Equality Strategic Plan supported by our Pride, Celebrate Women, RAP and Grow networks.

**Flexible working that works for you **as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.