Senior Associate / Associate Director - Commercial Roles

Are you proactive with demonstrated skills and experience in delivering successful project outcomes with a commercial and strategic mindset? 

Are you passionate about playing a key role in complex, transport, energy and social infrastructure projects that shape communities and enhance economic outcomes? 

Do you thrive in a supportive and collaborative team environment? 

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

About IAG

Infrastructure Advisory Group is a specialist infrastructure advisory firm that assists our clients to develop and deliver world class infrastructure assets and services to optimise social and economic outcomes.

Our team of over 170 professionals has unparalleled full project lifecycle experience across the strategic commercial, planning, transaction and delivery aspects of complex, large-scale projects; from inception to completion.

At IAG, we pride ourselves on our flexible, supportive, collaborative and creative culture and the diversity of our team’s professional experiences and backgrounds that can really drive innovative solutions for clients. Join our tight-knit team and enjoy:

• Professional Development: Opportunities to challenge yourself, learn, and grow, with pathways tailored to your strengths and interests.
• Flexibility:  A flexible approach enabling work-life balance and to work from home where possible
• Meaningful Impact: Work on significant infrastructure projects that have a real impact on communities and the people within them.
• Diverse Range of Work: Exposure to a variety of key infrastructure projects throughout Australia.
• Gender Balance: A team that prides itself on 50:50 gender balance, fostering an inclusive work environment.
• Cohesion: a flat and cohesive organisational structure that empowers our people while supporting effective operational leadership
• Fun and Innovation: A workplace that values excellence, creativity, and innovation, while also ensuring a sense of enjoyment along the way.

We’re looking for talented, like-minded people in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane to join our team.

The Role:

Working alongside senior client executives, the successful candidate will co-locate with clients and support project and functional teams during procurement and delivery to help create commercial strategies for project success. You will understand and direct multidisciplinary project activities into integrated cohesive outcomes, which includes assignments where we:

• Manage and support commercial, procurement, delivery and project controls functions within an integrated project delivery team;
• Communicate contractual principles and risks to internal stakeholders, including senior leaders;
• Help clients set-up and maintain commercial functions, tools and procedures;
• Review, negotiate and resolve complex claims and disputes - including liaising with internal and external stakeholders on strategy and progress;
• Advise our clients’ project teams on commercial, risk, change and project controls considerations;
• Proactively respond to changes in client stakeholder needs and expectations, while developing collaborative relationships formed on trust; and
• Advising clients on proactively navigating the challenges posed by market trends or changes, including changes to regulatory and statutory frameworks, which may involve appropriate changes to internal governance and risk frameworks.

About you:

Ideally, you will have 8-15+ years of practical experience in Commercial Roles during the procurement and / or delivery phases of transport, energy or social infrastructure projects, spanning contract management, procurement, risk management, project controls or claims. 

Candidates may have contract / commercial management, engineering, project management or quantity surveying backgrounds. 

Breadth of experience across commercial disciplines will be looked upon favourably, as will post-graduate studies in commercial or construction law.

Whatever the angle, if you have relevant experience on complex, large-scale transport, energy or social infrastructure projects in a commercial capacity, with a sharp eye for detail, and a keenness to bring your whole self to work, we would love to hear from you! 

Check out infragroup.com.au and apply now to join IAG in shaping the future together!