Contracts and Commercial Managers - Infrastructure
Graham
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
Reporting functionally to the Commercial Director and operationally to Senior Operational Leaders, the successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring financial control, risk management, and contract compliance while optimizing project profitability and efficiency.As Commercial Manager for Graham you will:Pre-Award of Project Phase:
- Play a critical role in the work-winning phase of projects by assessing bid documentation to identify risks and opportunities
- Develop mitigation plans to address risks and ensure compliance with company standards and processes
- Build strong networks with Legal, Insurance, Finance, and Project Controls teams to incorporate professional input into work-winning activities
- Leverage contract knowledge and expertise to prepare and negotiate various contracts, including joint venture agreements, design professional agreements, subcontracts, and supplier agreements
- Ensure all contracts comply with corporate standards and processes
- Collaborate with the work-winning team to develop tender budgets and contingencies based on risk analysis, ensuring contract documents align with the bid’s risk positions
- Act as a key steward in transitioning from the work-winning team to the execution team, ensuring project risks and mitigation plans are well understood
- Implement strategies such as organizational and responsibility matrices, scheduling, staffing, cost control, project controls, and contract/change management
- Monitor project execution plans and identify, report, and manage deviations, focusing on scope/contract change management, cash flow, revenue, cost, profit & loss, and risk & opportunity positions
- Engage with internal and insurance experts to lead or assist in claims management, including record-keeping, preparation, and settlement negotiation
- Support project teams to ensure compliance with Graham’s standards and processes
- Assist project teams with subcontract drafting, negotiation, and execution of subcontracts, supply agreements, and change orders, while tracking associated risks
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with public and private sector clients, joint-venture partners, financing partners, and key subcontractors
- Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, design teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups, reflecting Graham’s core values
- Leverage business acumen to foster collaboration across project management teams and internal functions such as finance, legal, insurance, and project controls
- Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Business or Law
- 8+ years of construction and commercial management experience working on large-scale ($100M +) construction projects, including design-build in a similar role
- Advanced knowledge of construction contract administration and the principles of purchasing, finance, and estimating
- Strong negotiation skills, including resolution of deficiencies and / or claims
- Thorough understanding of contract law and detailed experience working with various contract types and forms
- The Commercial role at Graham is a dynamic role, and strong relationship skills are required