What's on Offer
- Office locations across South-East QLD including: West End, Richlands, Stapylton and Baringa
- Maternity Cover: 12-month fixed-term engagement, with full-time hours
- Work alongside an experienced and supportive team committed to delivering exceptional client outcomes.
- Flexible working options: work‑from‑home arrangements can be discussed and negotiated
- Make meaningful contributions to critical water infrastructure
- Wellbeing support through EAP, Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies
- Professional development via Ventia Academy’s training and accelerated learning programs
- VenPerks lifestyle benefits across retail, travel, health insurance and more
About the Contract
Ventia was awarded the contract to deliver preventative, corrective, and reactive maintenance, along with electrical, mechanical, and instrumentation services across the Seqwater network of 35 water treatment plants, 95 pump stations, and 26 referable dams.
Fully mobilised in February 2025, our 125 strong team continue to deliver service excellence across the entire Seqwater network. The network expands as far as Gympie in the north, to the NSW border in the south, and from North Stradbroke Island in the east, to the base of the Toowoomba Ranges in the west.
About the Role
As the Commercial Manager, you will provide strategic commercial leadership and guidance to the client and project team, ensuring strong contract performance, compliance, and value delivery.
This is an outstanding opportunity to influence outcomes, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and drive initiatives that enhance both operational and commercial success.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Build and maintain client relationships
- Oversee the reporting of KPI performance and compliance ensuring targets are achieved, as well as formulating and implementing improvement strategies
- Lead the engagement and negotiations of subcontractor agreements with suppliers.
- Manage project risk register in conjunction with the project team, and implement commercial and financial risk analysis
- Manage a regular project health check regime with corporate stakeholders.
- Deliver specified training to uplift commercial capability to the project team.
- Drive commercial performance and maximise revenue opportunities by identifying strategic growth initiatives and ensuring targeted commercial improvements are successfully delivered and realised.
About You
To be successful in your application, you will have Tertiary qualifications in Business, Law, Engineering, Finance or Project Management or extensive experience in contract or commercial management accompanied by:
- An ability to work flexibly and adaptively in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders
- Proven track record of successful commercial negotiations, strategic thinking and relationship management
- Ability to influence outcomes and decisions
- High degree of leadership capability
About Ventia
As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.
Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.
How to apply
Click the Apply Now button to start the journey to find your further with Ventia.
Position Reference Number:168226
