Senior Cost and Commercial Manager
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75714260 |
Summary
Are you excited by the opportunity to be part of a team delivering diverse, exciting projects and programmes to meet Greater Manchester’s Integrated Transport Vision? Are you an ambitious and experienced commercial management professional, keen to challenge yourself in a highly responsible and demanding role which offers the opportunity to drive value and continuous improvement across a broad and challenging range of infrastructure programmes and projects?
Are you motivated by the opportunity to contribute to meaningful, high-impact projects that shape Greater Manchester’s transport future? Do you bring experience in commercial management and a collaborative mindset to help deliver value and continuous improvement across a diverse range of infrastructure programmes?
We’re looking for a Senior Cost & Commercial Manager to join our team someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys working with others, and is passionate about making a difference!
Your Role
Reporting directly to the Commercial Lead you will work in a matrix organisation alongside Programme and project managers. In this role you will develop and manage cost plans and contract administration predominantly related to NEC Contracts. You will have the opportunity to be involved in multi modal projects, building capabilities and cost planning intelligence.
Reporting directly to the Commercial Lead, you’ll work in a matrix organisation alongside programme and project managers. You’ll be responsible for developing and managing cost plans and contract administration, primarily related to NEC contracts. This role offers the opportunity to work across multi-modal projects, building your expertise and contributing to our cost planning intelligence.
You’ll also lead a team of Cost Managers and Commercial Assistants, supporting their development while maintaining strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders across departments such as Finance, Legal, and Procurement.
Please read the role profile below for more information, in addition to reviewing this candidate pack that we’ve put together!
Who are we?
Projects Group within Transport for Greater Manchester is evolving. As well as our more traditional transport construction projects and programmes, such as Metrolink, transport interchanges, rail stations, highways and bus priority, we are now delivering a range of emerging priorities from easing congestion, addressing air quality and encouraging more people to cycle and walk.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
As a Projects Senior Cost & Commercial Manager, you will have senior commercial and contract management responsibilities across the lifecycle of multiple contracts/projects and across multiple transport modes, as well as managing a team of Cost Managers and Commercial Assistants and maintaining interface with the wider TfGM Management team and Senior Leaders.
We’re looking for someone who can bring both technical expertise and a collaborative approach. You’ll have:
- Experience in commercial and contract management across the lifecycle of infrastructure projects.
- Strong knowledge of NEC contracts and industry standards.
- A track record of delivering projects cost-effectively from inception to completion.
- Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading teams and working across departments to achieve coordinated outcomes.
- A degree in Commercial Management, Quantity Surveying, or equivalent experience.
You will have experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with supply chains with strong experience of delivering projects cost-effectively from inception to completion, extensive negotiation skills and knowledge of industry standards and experience with various construction contracts including NEC. You will have team management experience as well as experience in managing relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple departments such as Finance, Legal and Procurement, to facilitate a coordinated commercial outcome under time pressures. You will also have a degree in Commercial Management/Quantity Surveying.
What we can offer you
This is a permanent role with a salary of £57,770 - £65,024 per annum depending on experience
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
- Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
- Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
- Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
- Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.
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TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
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