Commercial Director

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Commercial Director to join our team. In this role, you will lead the commercial, contractual, cost, procurement, and claims management functions for a major infrastructure program.

You will operate in a PMC / client representative capacity, providing senior commercial leadership, strategic advice, and governance across multiple contracts, packages, consultants, and contractors.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the commercial strategy, governance, and contractual oversight for a major infrastructure program.
• Act as the primary commercial advisor to the client, supporting procurement, contract strategy, risk allocation, and commercial decision making.
• Oversee procurement and pre award activities, including tender documentation, commercial evaluations, and recommendations for award.
• Lead post award contract administration across multiple consultants, contractors, and delivery packages.
• Oversee program level budget management, cost control, forecasting, cash flow, and financial reporting.
• Monitor commercial performance, identify cost risks, and recommend mitigation, value engineering, and cost optimization measures.
• Manage variations, claims, notices, amendments, contractual correspondence, and dispute avoidance matters.
• Advise the client on negotiation strategies, settlements, and dispute resolution processes where required.
• Maintain commercial risk and opportunity registers, ensuring key matters are properly tracked, mitigated, and escalated.
• Work closely with project controls, legal, technical, planning, construction, and HSE teams to support integrated program delivery.
• Lead and develop a team of commercial managers, quantity surveyors, and contract administrators.
• Represent Parsons and the client in senior commercial meetings, steering committees, negotiations, and contractor or consultant discussions.
• Provide clear, accurate, and timely commercial reporting to the Program Director, client leadership, and Parsons senior management.
• Ensure commercial records, documentation, data, and reporting are accurate, auditable, and compliant with client and program requirements.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Law, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant commercial experience within engineering, construction, infrastructure, or program management.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of GCC experience, preferably within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Proven experience in a PMC, client representative, or consultant side commercial leadership role.
• Previous experience as a Commercial Director, Senior Commercial Manager, Contracts Director, or equivalent on major infrastructure, urban development, transport, utilities, industrial, or giga project programs.
• Strong experience with FIDIC based contracts, major construction contracts, design and supervision agreements, and bespoke client contract models.
• Strong knowledge of procurement, contract administration, cost control, forecasting, claims, variations, and dispute management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead commercial teams across multiple packages, projects, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong commercial judgement, negotiation capability, and executive level communication skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, fast paced, and client facing program environment.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline is preferred.
• Professional membership such as RICS, MRICS, CIOB, CIArb, AACE, or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience working on major KSA infrastructure programs, giga projects, or large scale urban development programs.
• Familiarity with KSA procurement practices and public or semi governmental client environments.
• Experience with commercial, ERP, project controls, or cost management systems such as Oracle, SAP, Primavera, EcoSys, or similar.
• Arabic language skills would be an advantage.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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