Cost & Commercial Programme Lead (Infra)
Role Overview
Lead the growth and development of Ridge’s cost and commercial services across major infrastructure sectors.
Work with the UK Head of Infrastructure and senior Ridge colleagues on major clients and capital programmes.
The role combines strategic commercial leadership, operational advisory work and business development.
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Role overview
Lead the growth and development of Ridge’s cost and commercial services across major infrastructure sectors.
Work with the UK Head of Infrastructure and senior Ridge colleagues on major clients and capital programmes.
The role combines strategic commercial leadership, operational advisory work and business development.
Responsibilities
- Develop Ridge’s national infrastructure cost and commercial offer across transport, energy, utilities, defence and related capital programmes.
- Build relationships with infrastructure clients, public bodies, operators, delivery organisations, framework partners and programme teams.
- Grow client accounts across procurement strategy, contract forms, contract administration, change management, estimating and commercial assurance.
- Advise on commercial structures, controls, governance and decision-making for major projects and long-term programmes.
- Lead bids, frameworks, account development and multidisciplinary teams around major client opportunities.
- Help shape team structure, capability and recruitment priorities, and represent Ridge with senior infrastructure clients.
About you
- Likely to be operating at Partner, Director or senior leadership level in consultancy, commercial advisory, infrastructure, contracting, programme delivery or a client-side capital programme team.
- Bring significant infrastructure cost and commercial experience and exposure to one or more listed infrastructure sectors.
- Have established relationships with infrastructure stakeholders and a track record of growing client accounts.
- Have experience with procurement, contract forms, contract administration, change control, estimating and commercial assurance.
- Understand major capital programmes, large frameworks or complex infrastructure projects.
- Have led sizeable teams and can advise, challenge and influence senior clients.
Working context
Work spans the full commercial lifecycle, from early procurement strategy and estimating through contract selection, administration, change control, reporting, assurance and framework delivery.
Clients face affordability, public scrutiny, ageing assets, regulation, supply chain capacity, decarbonisation, delivery risk and operational resilience pressures.
Ridge connects commercial advice with project management, engineering, sustainability, health and safety and other specialist disciplines.
About Ridge
Ridge is a built environment consultancy providing integrated expertise to improve the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
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