Commercial Manager – Dubai | Civil Engineering

Company Overview:

The hiring enterprise is a premier, highly successful international construction and contracting corporation, elite infrastructure asset builder, and leading regional innovator in large-scale civil engineering works, high-performance architectural developments, and multi-tiered structural project delivery platforms expanding its heavy financial management division in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Built upon world-class operational metrics, rigid fiscal governance parameters, and progressive capital risk mitigation frameworks, the organization commands massive multi-million dollar asset portfolios across the GCC, governs complex procurement networks, and ensures absolute corporate compliance with municipal building codes, federal trade mandates, and advanced engineering financial structures.

Job Description:

We are executing a strategic professional appointment within our core commercial leadership branch and are seeking an experienced, operationally authoritative Commercial Manager to govern heavy-industry structural project ledger pipelines and direct capital contract administration pathways in Dubai. Configured for systematic project solutions executives who possess an advanced legal-financial command of FIDIC conditions and excel at steering subcontractor networks within fast-moving civil development timelines, this full-time track focuses on accelerating procurement-to-settlement velocities, auditing claim portfolios, and maximizing budget yield margins across our integrated engineering jobs and industrial assets.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Lead all commercial, cost engineering, and contractual activities across major high-value civil engineering and infrastructure construction projects.
• Manage extensive project budgets, enforcing strict project cost control, dynamic margin forecasting, and accurate monthly commercial reporting.
• Administer complex engineering contracts in strict accordance with standard FIDIC conditions and localized corporate governance guidelines.
• Govern commercial claims portfolios, defending variations management, preparing Extension of Time (EOT) justifications, and conducting final account negotiations.
• Monitor project cash-flow tracking pipelines and perform quantitative asset analysis to minimize localized commercial risk exposure points.
• Oversee multi-tier subcontractor administration setups, directing technical procurement activities and verifying strict commercial compliance files.
• Provide authoritative commercial guidance, legal risk parameters, and strategic financial decision support to site execution and corporate executive benches.
• Support comprehensive dispute avoidance and settlement mechanisms to shield the firm’s liquidity and preserve long-term stakeholder networks.

🔹 Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or an equivalent engineering-financial discipline from an accredited institution, cementing an advanced theoretical grasp of structural asset valuation, contract law, and financial cost control models.
• A minimum of 12 to 15 years of verified, high-performance professional history running heavy-industry commercial desks, managing high-value contracts, or directing quantity surveying teams for premier principal contractors on large-scale infrastructure operations in the UAE or GCC.
• Advanced technical workspace data literacy with sharp capabilities generating complex mathematical tables, cash flow matrices, and cost-profiling sheets inside Microsoft Excel databases.
• Deep, comprehensive operational knowledge across the following primary functional dimensions:
  • FIDIC contract frameworks, contractual provisions, notification protocols, and risk-allocation methodologies.
  • Claims and variations management architectures, valuation logic, quantum analysis, and disruption cost calculation principles.
  • Extension of Time (EOT) parameters, delay analysis methods, critical path assessment, and prolongation cost evaluations.
  • Final account negotiations, closing steps, subcontractor balancing, liability releases, and close-out documentation rules.
  • Budgeting and forecasting metrics, earned value analysis, project cost-to-complete formulas, and trend tracking.
  • Cash flow management principles, revenue forecasting, collection optimization loops, and working capital preservation.
  • Commercial reporting systems, project cost dashboards, variance tracking tables, and executive presentation models.
  • Procurement and subcontractor management procedures, pre-contract profiling, buy-out strategies, and performance monitoring.
  • Commercial risk management, contingency mapping, risk registers, mitigation planning, and legal exposure containment.
• Preferred qualifications include professional industry certifications such as MRICS, CIArb, or an equivalent credential, or a Master’s degree in a relevant specialized commercial engineering discipline.
• Outstanding corporate communication, reporting, and stakeholder bargaining talents, sharp analytical problem-solving habits under compressed project timelines, absolute mathematical attention to alphanumeric parameters, and an exceptionally polished presence under a unified corporate management framework.

What We Offer:

• • Competitive baseline fixed monthly salary package structured from AED 5,000 to 6,000 (adjusted to a maximum gap of 1,000 AED as per structural requirements), determined entirely by past contracting portfolio defense, live contractual dispute resolution challenges, and advanced procurement scenario simulations during panel interviews.
  • An elite opportunity to capture total operational custody over high-value infrastructure budgeting pipelines and risk control frameworks within a market-leading international contracting group.

• Stable career advancement tracks supported by major project expansions and clear internal channels for regional commercial directors, chief procurement officers, VP of contracts, or specialists moving toward internal regulatory compliance and corporate hr jobs frameworks.