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

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.