Commercial Manager

Snc-Lavalin; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Ireland is seeking a Commercial Manager to oversee rail projects. The successful candidate will manage contracts, ensuring efficient cost monitoring and forecasting while facilitating collaboration between client and contractor teams to achieve project goals. Strong communication, analytical skills, and relevant experience are essential for this role, contributing to the company’s commitment to commercial excellence.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Family-friendly employment policies

Inclusive employment policies

Qualifications

• Successful experience delivering rail projects in a commercial environment.
• Experience in mentoring and/or management.
• Knowledge of railway and construction industry conditions of contract.

Responsibilities

• Administer a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting.
• Manage contract changes effectively and resolve contractual disputes.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Education

Professional body membership with chartered status

Degree level education

Job description

AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

You will be a Commercial Manager embedded within our Irish business, working on rail projects or programmes. You will support contract and cost management activities, ensuring accurate forecasting, reporting, and governance. This role requires strong collaboration with client and contractor teams to deliver project objectives and drive commercial excellence.

Your Purpose:

• Administer a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Proactively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring timely and correct applications.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage delivery of project KPIs, programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Manage contract changes effectively, ensuring governance compliance and adoption of best practices.
• Drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets.
• Resolve contractual disputes and support risk mitigation strategies.

What can you bring:

• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level preferred.
• Successful experience of delivering rail projects in a commercial environment.
• Experience of mentoring and/or management.
• Knowledge of railway and construction industry conditions of contract.
• Ability to work on contracts independently.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and analytical skills.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Description

AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

You will be a Commercial Manager embedded within our Irish business, working on rail projects or programmes. You will support contract and cost management activities, ensuring accurate forecasting, reporting, and governance. This role requires strong collaboration with client and contractor teams to deliver project objectives and drive commercial excellence.

Your Purpose:

• Administer a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Proactively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring timely and correct applications.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage delivery of project KPIs, programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Manage contract changes effectively, ensuring governance compliance and adoption of best practices.
• Drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets.
• Resolve contractual disputes and support risk mitigation strategies.

What can you bring:

• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level preferred.
• Successful experience of delivering rail projects in a commercial environment.
• Experience of mentoring and/or management.
• Knowledge of railway and construction industry conditions of contract.
• Ability to work on contracts independently.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and analytical skills.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis , we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn .