Commercial Manager - Permanent - 4297

Job summary

The Commercial Manager will oversee the commercial position across a portfolio of institutional projects, managing risk registers and legal contract mechanics. They will also draft and negotiate subcontracts while reporting directly to executive leadership.

Job details

About the Opportunity A builder with a growing book of long-dated public-sector work is bringing commercial management out from under operations and giving it its own seat. The portfolio runs healthcare and justice-sector facilities alongside a signature civic project, all with owner groups, lenders’ technical advisors, and payment mechanisms that punish loose record-keeping. The role exists because the contracts got more legally complex faster than the commercial function grew, and too much of the interesting work is currently going out the door to external counsel. Duties include but are not limited to: Hold the commercial position across a portfolio of concurrent institutional projects, not a single job Own the risk register: early warning, entitlement, and the point where schedule slippage turns into commercial exposure Run the legal mechanics of the contract in-house; prompt payment and adjudication timelines under the Construction Act, holdback and lien exposure, notices, and dispute escalation before it becomes external counsel’s file Draft and negotiate subcontracts, and sit alongside estimating during buyout rather than inheriting the result Report into senior commercial and executive leadership, presenting your own positions instead of preparing them for someone else to present About You The successful candidate will have the following: You’ve held the commercial position on public-sector building contracts and you know how the payment mechanism behaves when the schedule slips You’re comfortable in the legal layer, not just the cost layer: CCDC forms, Collaborative Contract Models, project agreements, statutory holdback, adjudication clocks, and where the standard form has been amended in a way most people skim past You can read a program and see the delay claim being assembled well before anyone files it You’ve sat across from an owner’s representative or a lender’s technical advisor and held a position without torching the relationship You’ve done the unglamorous part; contemporaneous records, notice discipline, entitlement built on paper rather than argument Your route here could be an LLM or certificate in Construction Law, a legal or paralegal background, CIQS or RICS designation, or a quantity surveying career with the time served to match. The credential is a signal; the competence is the requirement About the Job Location: Mississauga, ON Portfolio-level scope with multi-year visibility, rather than following one project to closeout and starting again A commercial voice that reports at the executive table, not filtered through a project layer The legal side of the work stays with you rather than being handed to outside counsel the moment it gets interesting Institutional and public-sector work where the contract genuinely matters, so the discipline you’ve built is actually used Salary Range: $150,000 to $180,000, depending on experience How to Apply Please apply by completing the application form below and submitting your résumé. You can also apply by sending your résumé directly to Matt@ParkerHuggett.com or by contacting your Recruiter and quoting job 4297. Please note that all candidates must be legally permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this role. We truly appreciate your interest in this opportunity. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we will only be reaching out to candidates whose experience most closely matches our partner’s needs. If we do not connect with you for this role, please know that we will gladly keep your profile in mind and reach out when other suitable opportunities arise. For more information on Parker Huggett and our process for matching top talent with top organizations, click here.

What you’ll do

The Commercial Manager will oversee the commercial position across a portfolio of institutional projects, managing risk registers and legal contract mechanics. They will also draft and negotiate subcontracts while reporting directly to executive leadership.

Requirements

Candidates must have extensive experience in public-sector building contracts and a deep understanding of legal frameworks like CCDC forms and construction law. A background in quantity surveying, legal practice, or relevant professional designations is required to manage complex project agreements.

Listed skills

• Budgeting · Preferred
• Financial Reporting · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Procurement · Preferred
• Contract Negotiation · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Commercial management
• Risk management
• Contract negotiation
• Construction law
• Subcontract drafting
• Dispute resolution
• Project scheduling
• Financial reporting
• Construction Act compliance
• Quantity surveying
• Strategic planning
• Stakeholder management
• Legal mechanics
• Budgeting
• Procurement

Job areas

• Construction
• Management & Leadership
• Legal
• Government & Public Sector
• Finance & Accounting