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Senior Product Manager - Commercial & Contract Management, Construction & Engineering

IFS Itasca, IL

Itasca, IL

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$150k - $175k/yr Full time Manager Senior Ai Workflows

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Job Description

Own product strategy and execution for Commercial & Contract Management capabilities for construction and engineering, with a focus on end-to-end commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

Define and communicate the vision and strategy for Commercial & Contract Management within IFS Construction & Engineering.
Shape a differentiated market position across contract management, procurement, subcontract management, and commercial controls.
Convert customer feedback, market trends, industry insight, and competitive intelligence into prioritized product investments.
Own and evolve a roadmap balancing innovation, architectural modernization, adoption, customer retention, and commercial growth.
Drive cross-domain alignment across project management, project controls, procurement, finance, project accounting, risk management, and document management.
Engage directly with construction and engineering customers to understand commercial processes, procurement workflows, contractual risk, and operating models.
Validate customer problems and product opportunities before committing investment.
Establish lighthouse customers and design partners for discovery, prototyping, validation, and early adoption.
Ground strategy in measurable customer outcomes and business value.
Own product specifications covering customer problems, business outcomes, user workflows, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
Lead functional prototyping and validate solutions with real users prior to development.
Work as part of a high-performing product triad with engineering and design.
Ensure solutions deliver a coherent end-to-end commercial management experience, not isolated features.
Apply systems thinking across contracts, procurement, project execution, change management, cost control, revenue management, and commercial risk.
Build investment cases with clear customer, strategic, and financial outcomes.
Partner with engineering and design to move from validated problem to adopted product.
Support go-to-market activities including positioning, enablement, launch planning, and customer engagement.
Represent the product area with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and internal stakeholders.
Drive adoption from early customers to repeatable market scale; measure success through outcomes, adoption, retention, revenue influence, and commercial impact.
Identify opportunities for AI-driven innovation across procurement, supplier management, contract administration, obligation management, commercial risk, and contract change management.
Leverage AI to accelerate discovery, research, prototyping, and product definition; ensure AI-enabled capabilities provide tangible business outcomes and trusted decision support.
Build reusable product capabilities supporting multiple construction and engineering business models globally.
Support strengthening subcontract-management capabilities while establishing a broader commercial management framework connecting customer contracts, procurement, supplier commitments, contract changes, and project financial outcomes.
Define vision and strategy, identify the most valuable customer and market problems, build evidence-led investment cases, and lead discovery and product definition with customers, engineering, design, sales, and industry specialists.
Work directly with construction and engineering organizations across Europe and North America, including commercial managers, contract managers, quantity surveyors, project directors, procurement leaders, project controls teams, and finance stakeholders.

Requirements

Significant product-management experience in a software company delivering SaaS, ERP, construction-management, project-management, procurement, or enterprise software solutions.
Direct responsibility for commercial management, contract management, procurement management, subcontract management, project controls, or related capabilities within an enterprise software portfolio.
Strong domain experience in construction, engineering, EPC, infrastructure, contractors, specialist subcontractors, or project-centric industries.
Deep understanding of commercial processes, including:
- Customer and sales contracts
- Procurement and supplier commitments
- Subcontract management
- Change orders and contract variations
- Commercial obligations and compliance
- Valuation, payment, retention, and claims
- Cost, revenue, margin, and cash-flow impacts
Demonstrated ownership across product strategy, roadmap, discovery, delivery, launch, and adoption.
Strong customer-facing experience with operational users and executive stakeholders.
Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and prioritization skills.
Experience collaborating with global engineering and design teams.
Fluent English communication skills.
Based in Europe or North America with willingness to travel as required.

Technologies

AI
SaaS
ERP

Benefits

Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000 salary plus bonus
Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
Medical, dental, & vision insurance
401K with Company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability benefits
Tuition assistance
Community involvement and volunteering events

Desirable Experience

Construction commercial management, quantity surveying, procurement management, contract administration, or project controls experience.
Familiarity with major construction contracting models and commercial delivery frameworks used in Europe or North America.
Experience with construction ERP, project controls, procurement, contract management, or capital-project software platforms.
Understanding of project accounting, forecasting, cost controls, earned value, applications for payment, supplier payments, and revenue management.
Experience modernizing enterprise software products and introducing AI-enabled capabilities.
Exposure to pricing, monetization, business-case development, or product P&L ownership.
Experience creating customer design-partner or lighthouse-customer programs.
Degree or equivalent experience in construction management, engineering, quantity surveying, business, computer science, or a related discipline.

Additional Information

Interviews and selections are being made continuously; apply as soon as possible.
Final candidates will undergo a background check as part of the recruitment process.
IFS respectfully declines all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

IFS Fact

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations.
IFS is recognized as a leader and a most recommended supplier in its sector.
Team size: 7,000+ employees and a growing ecosystem of partners, supporting 10,000+ customers worldwide.

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