Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Commercial Managers who own the project’s commercial position — subcontract procurement, change and entitlement strategy, claims posture, cash position, and margin protection from award to final account. Verified on margin outcomes, not commercial vocabulary.
A structured process for the commercial hire — the seat where entitlement discipline, cash management, and negotiation judgment show up directly in project margin.
30-minute call. We align on project value and phase, contract forms, commercial team structure, claims exposure, and what the seat reports into — operations or a commercial director.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Commercial Managers with sector-matched project commercial history at your scale. References from project executives and commercial directors included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee — contingency, contract, and direct hire alike.
We reference how projects closed against tender margin under the candidate’s commercial leadership — recovery on change, cash position through the job, and final accounts settled without value leakage.
Commercial managers earn their keep in hard conversations — with owners, subs, and their own operations teams. We reference-check negotiation style and outcomes, not just assertiveness claims.
AIA, NEC, FIDIC, and bespoke owner paper create different risk profiles. We match candidates to your forms and delivery methods, including GMP and design-build commercial structures.
Reference-verified commercial leadership from subcontract procurement through final account on projects typically $50M–$500M+.
Change capture rates, notice discipline, and entitlement outcomes — verified with the executives who saw the monthly commercial reviews.
Cash-positive project management, commercial risk registers with owners and actions, and honest CVR/cost-value reporting — checked against what actually happened.
Reference-verified leadership of QSs and commercial staff — standards, reviews, and development of the next commercial lead.
We’ll help scope the role on the call — project value, contract forms, claims exposure, and team structure usually settle it inside 30 minutes.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks; total time to placement typically 4–6 weeks. Commercial managers with strong margin records rarely need to move — nearly all our placements at this level come from direct, mapped outreach.
Most US Commercial Manager base salaries fall between $145,000 and $195,000, with hyperscale data center and semiconductor projects commonly at $165,000–$215,000 plus bonus. Candidates carrying live claims or dispute experience on major programs price at the top of the band.
A Cost Manager owns the numbers — budgets, forecasts, reporting. A Commercial Manager owns the position — contracts, entitlement, claims, cash, and margin strategy, usually with QSs reporting in. Owner-side programs often lead with cost; contractor-side organizations lead with commercial.
Yes. Owners and developers on major capital programs increasingly hire commercial managers to hold the line on contractor change and claims. We place both sides of the table — and we’re clear with candidates about which seat they’re interviewing for.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee, on every engagement model.
We verify margin outcomes, change recovery, and settlement behavior with executives who saw the commercial reviews — not just referees the candidate offers up. Commercial talent is easy to overstate and expensive to get wrong.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review project value, contract forms, claims exposure, and team structure — then start sourcing from a mapped network of commercial leaders in your sector.
