Commercial Manager - Infrastructure/Aviation

🌟 Position: 341CMR: Commercial Manager

📍 Location: Hybrid/Remote – Occasional travel to Dublin

💼 Type: Full-time (Part time position available)

📅 Start Date: Immediate

💰 Salary: Competitive

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to support the delivery of a major infrastructure scheme at Dublin Airport, involving the development of a new underpass. The role is focused on providing high-quality commercial and contractual advice to the client and wider project team throughout the design and delivery stages.

This position offers remote working and can accommodate part-time arrangements, making it ideal for experienced commercial professionals seeking flexibility.

About us: CMR is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. We are a progressive & dynamic consultancy offering tailored project controls services across a range of industries.

Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

🔹 What’s in it for you?

• At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.
• If you demonstrate the capability, our merit based system will enable you to develop fast.
• We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.
• Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.
• We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

🔹 You'll

• Provide commercial management and advisory services in line with NEC contract principles
• Act as a trusted commercial advisor to the client and project stakeholders
• Support the administration and management of NEC contracts, including compensation events, early warnings, and change control
• Provide commercial input during the design phase, including cost advice, risk allocation, and contract strategy
• Prepare and review cost plans, forecasts, and financial reports
• Support procurement strategy and tender evaluations from a commercial perspective
• Assist with valuations, payment assessments, and final account negotiations
• Identify, assess, and advise on commercial risks and opportunities
• Ensure best practice, compliance, and value-for-money outcomes for the client

Essential

• Proven experience working in a Commercial Manager or Senior Commercial Consultant role
• Strong experience advising on NEC contracts (NEC4)
• Demonstrable experience working on design-stage contracts and design-led projects
• Background in infrastructure or civil engineering projects
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work autonomously within a remote consultancy model

Desirable

• Experience on aviation or airport-related infrastructure projects
• Experience providing commercial advice to public-sector or semi-state clients
• Chartered or working towards chartership (RICS, CIOB, or equivalent)

🔹 At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that have the same beliefs as we do! You can find out more about us here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/