Commercial Manager

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges.

Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve.

To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Commercial Manager

Your work environment at EXP

In this role you will be a part of the infrastructure group in the Northeast market. We are an entrepreneurial, multidisciplinary firm of approximately 4,200 professionals across North America with a history of successfully delivering some of the most complex infrastructure projects across North America.

We are currently looking to grow and enhance our transit, rail control systems, structural, roadway, and tunneling practices.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Managing a team of contracts formation and administration specialists.
• Developing and implementing the overall contracts and procurement strategy for the project.
• Monitor performance of the contracts and procurement function.
• Provide ongoing guidance in the various aspects of procurement and contract management to the Project Manager and key members of the project team ensuring sound formation and administration principles are applied.
• Participate in project related meetings and work closely with other functions such as engineering, construction, project controls, finance, etc.
• Provide support and guidance to the project manager in management of the prime contract.
• Preparation of progress reports on performance of the contracts team and procurement team.
• Provide advice to senior project management on a wide variety of project issues.
• Provide guidance on negotiation strategies and resolution of commercial issues.
• Representing contracts and procurement function at package and project reviews.
• Overseeing development of the contracts and procurement procedures, forms and templates.
• Developing, monitoring and maintaining project master contracts forms.
• Implementing changes to the terms and conditions, procedures templates and forms to improve efficiency, accuracy, quality of contracts and procurement function.
• Performance management of contracts and procurement function
• Provides oversight for the management of prime contract, implementation of the prime contract management program and contracts administration procedures, training and supervision of contracts personnel.
• Provides functional guidance to the project contracts and procurement personnel in the performance of their respective roles.
• Additional tasks as required.

What your experience looks like

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Law, Construction Management, or equivalent.
• 15 years experience in project procurement and contract management.
• 7 years of experience in rail transit projects.
• 5 years of experience in management and implementation of similar transportation infrastructure projects and in a similar position.
• Demonstrated experience in pricing, contract law, contract drafting, administration and negotiation of change orders, effective correspondence, planning and scheduling
• Thorough knowledge of planning, scheduling, cost control, and quality control functions.
• Specialized training courses in business law, finance and accounting, and related business subjects.
• Experience in working with the other functional service organizations, ., purchasing, expediting, supplier quality, traffic and logistics, and field procurement operations.
• Experience in managing workload distribution and execution of the work and well as being skilled in managing personnel including interviewing, hiring, training, development, performance evaluation, career counselling, salary administration, and knowledge of personnel.

The pay range for this role is $125,000 to $200,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.

This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.