Senior Commercial Manager

Your Opportunity

We are seeking a senior commercial leader to support a portfolio of large, technically complex advanced manufacturing and technology facility projects. Based in Boise, this role will provide hands-on commercial leadership across multiple concurrent design assignments, partnering closely with program leadership, project managers, and the client to protect delivery commitments, manage commercial exposure, and support long-term client success. The position requires sound judgment, pace, and an ability to turn complex contractual and financial information into timely decisions.

Your Key Responsibilities

Program Commercial Leadership

• Lead commercial management for a major advanced manufacturing client program and its related projects and work packages.
• Establish clear commercial governance, decision rights, reporting cadence, and escalation protocols across a multi-project portfolio.
• Advise program and project leadership on contract interpretation, commercial obligations, risk allocation, and client-facing commercial decisions.
• Build productive working relationships with client commercial representatives, construction partners, internal leadership, and delivery teams.

Contracts, Change and Risk

• Lead negotiation and administration of agreements, amendments, scope changes, and commercial terms in coordination with authorized leadership and legal teams.
• Implement disciplined change identification, notification, documentation, pricing, and approval processes to minimize unbilled effort and disputes.
• Anticipate and manage commercial risks associated with accelerated schedules, evolving design requirements, multiple interfaces, and construction-phase changes.
• Support issue resolution and claims avoidance through timely documentation, fact-based negotiation, and proactive escalation.

Financial and Delivery Performance

• Oversee fee forecasts, earned performance, profitability, cash flow, receivables, and commercial exposure across the program.
• Partner with project managers and project controls to maintain reliable forecasts, staffing and fee projections, and early warning indicators.
• Review commercial impacts of schedule compression, resource changes, rework, and out-of-scope requests before commitments are made.
• Provide concise commercial dashboards and recommendations to program and business leadership.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Partner with project delivery, discipline, finance, contracts, and risk leaders to align commercial strategy with execution realities.
• Coach project teams on contract awareness, change discipline, documentation, and commercial accountability.
• Support future work planning and client continuity while maintaining appropriate separation between commercial governance and day-to-day design management.

Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven commercial leadership on large, complex, multi-year capital programs, ideally in semiconductor fabrication, advanced manufacturing, or similarly demanding technical facilities.
• Deep understanding of architectural and engineering professional-services agreements, including scope and deliverable definitions, fee structures, contractual obligations, liability allocation, and flow-down requirements.
• Demonstrated success negotiating commercial terms, amendments, and change orders with sophisticated owners and delivery partners while maintaining constructive long-term client relationships.
• Strong command of project financial performance, including earned revenue, estimates at completion (EACs), cost-to-complete, labor and subconsultant budgets, margin, cash flow, billing, collections, and forecast accuracy.
• Experience establishing disciplined change-control processes: identifying out-of-scope work early, documenting entitlement and impacts, evaluating fee and schedule adjustments, and securing timely approvals.
• Ability to identify, quantify, communicate, and mitigate commercial risks associated with accelerated schedules, overlapping design and construction, evolving requirements, phased work packages, and multiple contracting interfaces.
• Working knowledge of project controls, schedule and cost reporting, commercial dashboards, and the use of leading indicators to anticipate performance issues and support timely decisions.
• Proven ability to support claims avoidance and dispute resolution through sound records, clear contractual interpretation, effective escalation, and pragmatic negotiation.
• Ability to lead commercial discussions across client representatives, project managers, design managers, technical leaders, finance, legal, procurement, and external partners without relying on direct reporting authority.
• Experience with major projects exceeding $1 billion in construction value is strongly preferred; experience managing commercial performance across several concurrent projects or work packages is particularly valuable.
• Excellent executive communication, financial analysis, judgment, and negotiation skills; able to translate complex commercial issues into clear options, recommendations, and decisions.
• Hands-on, proactive leadership style, with the resilience to operate in a fast-paced, confidential environment and the discipline to escalate emerging issues early.
• Proficiency with enterprise project-financial systems, advanced Excel, and commercial reporting tools; familiarity with professional-services project management processes is preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and good driving record required.

Education and Experience

A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or Business with a minimum of 10 years of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.