**Commercial Manager (Temporary opportunity up to 13 months)**:
- Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW
- Job category: Projects
- Job location: Newcastle, NSW, AU, 2302
- Job reference number: 100611
- Employment type: Fixed Term Full-Time
- Salary range: $153780.0-$172232.0
**You're someone who wants to create outcomes that have a real impact on the people of NSW.**
**You're called upon to help decision makers identify the options that best match their objectives. This is your opportunity to deliver exceptional services to the people of NSW, create innovative solutions, and foster strong partnerships.**
**In this role, you'll**:
Join our Outer Metro contracts team where you will lead a team who manage Outer Metro Bus Service Contracts across NSW.
This role will see you develop, refine and implement contract management processes and strategies, and actively manage strategic and complex relationships and transactional aspects of contract management, to ensure consistency and to minimise risks to service delivery.
Working closely with our bus operators, you will oversee end to end contract management activities, provide targeted support in contract and relationship management, service variations, and contract documentation, and develop and implement a range of leading edge contract management processes.
For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.
**About you**
You are an experienced Commercial Manager with strong leadership skills, ideally formed within the bus / public transport contracts industry or a similar operational environment.
You have exceptional communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, are highly analytical, and have a strong working knowledge of contract principles. You're a patient and adaptable person who can manage competing priorities and influence outcomes.
You will frequently engage with our operators, and therefore you will have the ability to build strong, lasting relationships and take a collaborative approach to achieving the best outcomes for our customers.
Your contract management and leadership experience matters most, but qualifications in procurement, law, commerce, business or a related field will be highly regarded. Transport industry experience is also highly regarded.
**Who we are**
Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and effective transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.
**Join us**
Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.
This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team's home base location with remote days.
**Applications close: 11:59 pm Sunday, 13 July 2025.**
Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal people or Supporting people with disability for more info or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.
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📌 Commercial Manager
🏢 Transport For Nsw
📍 Newcastle