Commercial Director – Program Management

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Commercial Director leading commercial strategy, procurement, governance, and value realization for AECOM’s major infrastructure programs. Driving collaborative delivery across partners, contractors, suppliers, and joint ventures.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and lead the commercial architecture of major, complex programs or collections of smaller programs
  • Establish delivery models, contracting strategies, commercial frameworks, incentive mechanisms, and risk allocation structures
  • Align stakeholders and the supply chain around common objectives and maximize long-term value
  • Lead market sounding and industry engagement to inform commercial strategy, delivery models, procurement approaches, and investment decisions
  • Assess market capability, capacity, competitiveness, and appetite
  • Shape procurement and delivery partner strategies
  • Lead development, validation, negotiation, and governance of target costs, pricing strategies, commercial incentives, contingencies, and risk provisions
  • Establish transparent commercial baselines using benchmarking, market intelligence, and delivery maturity
  • Provide executive leadership oversight of the program’s commercial ecosystem
  • Drive collaboration, transparency, performance, innovation, and value realization across owners, delivery partners, contractors, suppliers, and joint ventures
  • Lead commercial governance and assurance, including commercial decisions, risk allocation, change, forecasting, controls, and performance
  • Identify emerging commercial exposures, provide independent challenge, and implement interventions to protect value
  • Align commercial interests across owners, sponsors, delivery partners, suppliers, and functional leaders
  • Lead a high-performing commercial function focused on value creation, commercial excellence, and delivery performance

Requirements:

  • 20+ years of relevant experience in complex systems, major infrastructure, strategic commercial, procurement, and direct delivery leadership
  • Leadership responsibility on major capital programs
  • Experience leading complex collaborative commercial arrangements and complex procurements
  • Experience leading collaborative negotiations through contract design, market engagement, award, implementation, delivery, and closeout
  • Direct accountability for establishing and managing target-cost or GMP arrangements
  • Substantial experience with collaborative alliances or similar hybrid collaborative structures
  • Experience with contractor joint ventures, integrated delivery organizations, and major subcontracting strategies
  • Evidence of measurable commercial value beyond initial contract award
  • Strong command of strategy, relational contracting, cost engineering, commercial risk, innovation to drive value, procurement governance, and executive-level negotiations
  • Experience with NEC target-cost/alliancing arrangements, progressive design-build, or equivalent collaborative contracting frameworks

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Disability benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Leaves of absence
  • Voluntary benefits and perks
  • Flexible work options
  • Well-being resources
  • Employee assistance program
  • Business travel insurance
  • Service recognition awards
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Award-winning training and development programs
  • In-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location