Senior Commercial Manager

Exyte GmbH•Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Commercial Project Manager is responsible for leading all commercial, contractual, and financial management activities across large‑scale, technically complex EPCM projects within the Biopharma & Life Sciences, Data Centre, and Semiconductor industry. This role ensures that project delivery is commercially optimized, contractually compliant, and aligned with client, regulatory, and business objectives in a high‑risk, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Contract Administration, Legal, Finance, or related field preferred.
15+ years of experience
10+ years of progressive experience in construction/contract administration/quantity surveying/finance or similar with a focus for construction projects.
Previous experience in an EPC environment providing budgetary and commercial oversight and management for large projects in the range of +$200 million is required.
Experience working with corporate decision makers and managing negotiations is a priority.
Must have general proficiency with project management software such as Primavera, MS Project or similar.
Must have strong proficiency with accounting/financial reporting software such as SAP.
Proficiency with Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint required.
Must have strong proficiency with contract administration and change management.
Must be well organized with excellent communication and reporting skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience support operations for the Biopharma & Life Sciences, Data Centre, or Semiconductor industry preferred.
Experience in Large EPCM Project environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Leading all commercial, contractual, and financial management activities across large‑scale EPCM projects.
Ensuring that project delivery is commercially optimized, contractually compliant, and aligned with client, regulatory, and business objectives.
Partner with Project Directors and cross‑functional leaders, driving proactive risk and opportunity management, ensures adherence to governance and cost controls, and safeguards project margins through the full project lifecycle—from proposal and contract negotiation through execution, change management, and close‑out.
Providing leadership in maintaining robust client relationships, ensuring transparent communication, and enabling informed decision‑making by providing accurate, timely commercial insights.
Build strong relationships with internal teams, including Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Legal, Finance, and Procurement.
Develop, implement, and maintain the commercial management plan, including governance structures, controls, and reporting frameworks.
Define commercial priorities and ensure cross‑functional teams understand contractual obligations and commercial risks.
Lead contract interpretation, administration, and compliance for prime contracts and major subcontracts with internal legal support.
Drive proactive change management, including identification, valuation, negotiation, and resolution of change orders and claims.
Ensure all project correspondence, notices, and contractual deliverables are timely, accurate, and strategically positioned.
Mitigate disputes by maintaining clear documentation and facilitating early resolution processes.
Negotiates final amounts with client and settlement of disputes and disagreements.
Prepare, lead, and validate monthly commercial reports including budget performance, forecast‑at‑completion, cost variances, cash flow projections, and margin performance.
Validate monthly cost‑to‑complete estimates and ensure alignment between operations, finance, and scheduling teams.
Provide early‑warning indicators through trend analysis, earned value insights, and variance explanations relevant to high-risk EPCM projects.
Lead commercial risk and opportunity assessments, quantifying impacts and integrating them into financial forecasts.
Ensures strict adherence to legal compliance, corporate governance processes, approval matrices, audit trails, and commercial policies.
Ensure accurate and timely submission of revenue recognition inputs in alignment with finance, scheduling, project controls, and accounting policies.
Oversees billing process and responsibility for accounts receivable and cash collection.
Develops, maintains and reports to Client monthly project status report to include trends, contracts changes, CPM schedules, man-hour report and other cost reports.
Monitors procurement in terms of schedule and cost for profit and loss forecasting.
Labor forecasting, general conditions, trade costs provisions and contingencies
Supports all tender and bid proposal activity but not actively carry out procurement.
Approves supply chain billing documents.
Makes assessments of supply chain change orders, extensions of time and contractual claims.
Closes out supply chain contracts and related documentation.