Commercial Manager - NEOM

At Jacobs, we are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to join our team at NEOM and provide contractual leadership across a major programme. Key Responsibilities: - Own and maintain a prioritised closeout plan and tracker for Work Orders, Service Orders and assigned standalone contracts, including status, dependencies, actions, owners and target completion dates. - Review each order or contract against its scope, commercial terms, deliverables, amendments and approval history to establish specific closeout requirements and evidence gaps. - Verify completion and acceptance of contracted services or works with project and technical teams, obtaining completion, handover or acceptance records. - Reconcile awarded values, approved changes, commitments, invoices, payments, accruals and remaining balances across contract records, Unifier and SAP, escalating discrepancies. - Lead agreement and documentation of final accounts, including assessment and closure of outstanding variations, claims, contra-charges, and disputed amounts. - Develop, substantiate and agree estimated costs of rectifying outstanding NCRs, defects and incomplete works, ensuring appropriate deductions or financial offsets. - Confirm that required contractor deliverables are complete, including final reports, records, warranties, manuals, and as-built information. - Coordinate the closure or release of securities, guarantees, retentions, and insurances subject to contract conditions. - Confirm position on defects, outstanding obligations and post-completion responsibilities. - Prepare closeout recommendations, approval submissions, final account documentation, and settlement records. - Ensure purchase orders, Work Orders, Service Orders and associated commitments are administratively and financially closed in systems following approval. - Maintain complete, accurate and auditable closeout files with clear linkage between correspondence, approvals, financial records, and system transactions. - Provide concise periodic reporting on closeout progress, ageing, forecast completion, blockers, and risk exposure. Qualifications: - Minimum of 15 years of relevant post-qualification experience in contract or commercial management, including substantial responsibility for contract, Work Order or Service Order closeout. - Demonstrable experience managing high-volume or multi-order closeout programmes under framework, call-off, task order or similar enterprise contracting arrangements. - Strong capability in final account agreement, financial and commitment reconciliation, change control, claims assessment, and records management. - Sound knowledge of contract law, procurement and contract administration principles; familiarity with FIDIC or comparable standard forms is advantageous. - Proficiency in Unifier and SAP, or comparable contract and enterprise resource planning systems, together with strong Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills. - Ability to interpret contractual requirements, identify evidence gaps, analyse commercial data and convert complex issues into clear actions and recommendations. - Strong planning, organisational, stakeholder management, communication, negotiation and influencing skills. - Experience in large-scale infrastructure, construction, engineering or professional services environments is preferred.