ReqID: SEA00008W **Joining Arup** Arup's purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world. We are currently seeking a Project Commercial Manager to join our team in Seattle, San Francisco or Los Angeles, to work on various large infrastructure projects in the West Geography. The focus of this role is to provide strong commercial leadership to project managers, directors and business administrators in the areas of financial management, general commercial support, contract administration, subconsultant management and bid support. **The Opportunity** - Lead the implementation of project specific cost control processes. - Support the Project Manager to ensure project profitability and other commercial goals are met. - Assist in consolidation of budget estimation and resource planning. - Prepare a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for new projects and understand how schedule is integrated with the WBS and budgets. - Utilize financial systems including earned value to monitor financial performance, project costs and other performance parameters and metrics, leading the production of performance dashboards. - Track actuals spend against budgets, conduct variance analyses, lead reporting of project financials and respond to queries from project teams on performance issues. - Lead the monitoring and management of scope changes; maintaining change and risk registers and preparing fee proposals and contract change orders. - Comfortable in preparing and issuing monthly client invoices and monitoring accounts receivable. - Collect, collate and review timesheets of project team members. - Prepare various monthly client reports as required to demonstrate project progression and performance. - Manage sub-consultants' commercial issues including preparation of sub-consultant agreements, track costs, and review invoices and payments. - Lead staff mobilisation process for new resources. - Lead the development of the annual work plan for the project. - Consistently look for Commercial improvement and efficiencies on the project. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective - in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve. **Is this role right for you?** - Bachelor's Degree in a related field. - Master's degree in construction management or business preferred. - Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in engineering design or construction industry services. - General knowledge of commercial management and experience in contractual matters including understanding main contract types and their commercial implications, and ability to read and interpret key contract clauses. - Ability to work under pressure, prioritize effectively and manage deadlines; highly organized. - Strong analytical skills related to data and able to tell a story tailored to the audience. - Strong interpersonal and communication skills essential for team-based working and team leadership skills. - Proactive, willingness to take on additional responsibilities without having to be assigned. - The ability to work independently and seek appropriate review and support. - Have advanced knowledge of Excel, data manipulation, formulas, VBA macros, Power Query and spreadsheet design. - Experience in PowerPoint for report preparation is desirable. - Experience in PowerBI including configuring and maintaining existing dashboards or creating new ones is required. - Experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project is desirable. - Experience with Power Automate, PowerApps is desirable. - Comfortable using digital and automation tools such as SharePoint, Forms, Lists, etc... to streamline routine commercial tasks is required. - Design-Build and experience working with or for major Contractors in a Design-Build and Progressive Design-Build environment is preferred. Please note that all applicants must apply directly via the job portal. If this role is not quite what you are looking for, but you are interested in other opportunities for a future with purpose, please sign up to our Talent Community where you will be kept up to date with roles suitable for you to shape a better world. **What we offer you** At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range