Senior Commercial Manager - Milan
Pubblicato il 06-09-2026 - Cumming Group UK & Europe in Varese
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world’s most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.
The Role:
Cumming Group are looking to recruit a Senior Commercial Manager to join our team in the Milan office. You will provide strategic commercial leadership across complex, high-value data centre projects throughout Italy and Europe. You will oversee the commercial performance of major mission-critical developments from feasibility and procurement through construction, commissioning and close-out.
Leading client relationships, commercial strategy and project teams, you will play a pivotal role in driving cost certainty, mitigating risk, and ensuring successful project outcomes. This position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing sectors in construction while helping shape the commercial delivery of some of Europe's most significant digital infrastructure projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead commercial and cost management services across multiple large-scale data centre projects.
- Develop and implement commercial strategies that support successful project delivery and client objectives.
- Provide senior leadership on cost planning, benchmarking, budgeting and financial control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Advise clients on procurement strategy, contract selection and risk allocation.
- Oversee tender processes, tender analysis and contract award recommendations.
- Lead negotiations and administration of contracts, including NEC and JCT forms where applicable.
- Manage variations, change control processes, claims and commercial disputes.
- Review project financial performance, forecasts, cash flow and commercial reporting across multiple commissions.
- Drive value engineering initiatives and cost optimisation strategies while maintaining project quality and performance standards.
- Provide commercial governance and assurance across project portfolios.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, contractors and key stakeholders.
- Support business development activities, client pursuits and proposal preparation.
- Lead, mentor and develop Commercial Managers, Cost Managers and junior team members.
- Support regional leadership with commercial reporting, resource planning and operational performance management.
Qualifications:
- Education: Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in commercial management,
cost consultancy, or quantity surveying, with significant exposure to large-scale construction projects.
- Professional Accreditation: MRICS, AssocRICS, or working towards chartered status preferred.
- Extensive experience managing complex commercial programmes and multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Strong understanding of NEC, JCT and other standard forms of construction contract.
- Proven track record delivering data centre, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure or similarly complex projects.
- Strong knowledge of construction law, commercial risk management and procurement strategies.
- Experience overseeing multiple projects and client accounts simultaneously.
- Exceptional leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to provide strategic advice to senior clients and project teams.
- Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced and technically demanding project environments.
Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, “race” (includes nationality, national / ethnic origins, colour) marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender reassignment, religion and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.