Commercial Manager

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow (WSP Changemakers)

**About the role**:
An exciting opportunity exists for a motivated **Commercial Manager** in the Project Services team to **undertake **pre-contracts, contract delivery and project performance across a broad range of projects within the Australian business. The role will work closely with the other Commercial resource, as well as with the operations, bid and delivery teams, to deliver sound and practical commercial advice. The role supports the business commercial processes, through pursuit/bid preparation and development, and negotiation of contractual agreements with clients, partners and sub-consultants.

**What you'll do?**
- Commercial reviews and negotiations of contracts and other project documents across our broad range of projects and clients;
- Monitoring key contract risks and delivering contract administration rigor into our project management approach;
- Work with WSP's in-house legal team on contract reviews to make sound commercial decisions on contractual risk, and;
- Assist in resolving commercial issues and linking with our project performance team to ensure we maximise commercial outcomes on our projects and align with the financial strategy of the business.
- We would love to hear from you, if you have experience in undertaking pre-contracts, contract delivery and project performance across a broad range of projects within the Australian business.

**About you**:

- Degree level qualification(s);
- Minimum 5 + years' experience in project-based environments;
- Strong base of contract administration and / or contract legal experience;
- work with project and proposal managers to managers opportunity and risk across the range of projects;
- Ability to communicate contractual principles to project managers, proposal managers and broader businesses leaders and to support those individuals in managing contractual discussions with clients;
- Sound time management and organisational skills, confident prioritising workload and managing competing deadlines;
- Positive attitude and flexibility towards undertaking a changing variety of tasks;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively in both small and large team environments.

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,500 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a 'Stretch' level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LQBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

**Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.**

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