Commercial Lead - #1788561

Shape the future of transport in Greater Manchester. Were looking for a commercially-minded professional to lead the delivery of high-impact infrastructure projects. In this strategic role, youll work across a diverse portfoliofrom Metrolink to walking and cycling initiativesdriving value, innovation, and continuous improvement. If youre motivated by purpose, collaboration, and making a difference, wed love to hear from you.

Your Role

As a Commercial Lead , youll lead on all commercial matters related to the delivery of TfGMs capital programme. Youll work across a diverse portfolio of projects, including transport interchanges, rail stations, highways, and active travel schemes.

Youll

• Manage commercial delivery from inception to completion
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders
• Lead a team of internal and external commercial professionals
• Oversee cost control, risk management, and commercial reporting
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and contract frameworks (e.g. NEC)
  
  

Who are we?

Transport for Greater Manchester has many priorities across projects delivery. 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. In this role you will be responsible for managing a team of both internal and external resources, controlling and reporting all costs and liabilities associated with various modal capital programmes as well as supporting a number of other non-infrastructure related capital and revenue funded projects across TfGMs wide-ranging portfolio.

What Youll 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 .

Were Looking For Someone Who Is

• Experienced in commercial and contract management across complex infrastructure projects
• Skilled in negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and commercial reporting
• Knowledgeable about construction contracts (especially NEC) and service-based agreements
• A collaborative leader who thrives in a dynamic, multi-stakeholder environment
• Passionate about delivering public value and continuous improvement
  
  

What We Can Offer You

Our benefits include:

• A salary of £70,906 - £79,805 per annum depending on skills and experience
• 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?

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.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

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.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.

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