Commercial Lead – Data Centre

Accenture – London, Bristol, Manchester

Career level - Senior Manager

Join Soben at a Pivotal Moment

Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Now, we’re entering a transformative new chapter.

In March 2025, Soben became part of Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice, within its Industry X division. This strategic acquisition combines our deep expertise in cost and commercial management with Accenture’s global scale and digital innovation.

For our team, this unlocks a wealth of opportunity:

Access to world-class resources and technology, enhancing how we deliver capital projects

Involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals

Career development at scale, with exposure to international clients and cutting-edge project environments

A platform for innovation, as we continue to challenge traditional consultancy models and lead digital transformation

In this role you will:

• Commercial Leadership: Lead and manage the commercial team on-site, ensuring alignment with project goals and client expectations
• Client Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders, fostering strong relationships and ensuring effective communication throughout the project.   
• Contract Management: Robustly defend claims downstream and manage change, ensuring that all contractual obligations are met and accurately reported.
• Strategic Thinking: Provide strategic oversight and hands-on management of commercial activities, ensuring the project’s financial health and long-term success
• Team Culture: Foster a positive, can-do attitude within the team, promoting collaboration and a high-performance culture. 
• Account Management: Take on key account management responsibilities, with potential for significant growth opportunities across the EMEA region.

About you

• Right to Work: UK
• Data Centre Expertise: Extensive experience in large-scale hyperscale data centre projects is essential.  
• Leadership Experience: Proven track record of leading commercial teams on complex construction projects.  
• Client-Facing Skills: Comfortable engaging with business leaders and stakeholders, with strong interpersonal and communication skills.  
• Contract Management: Demonstrable experience in managing contracts, defending claims, and reporting on change.  
• Strategic & Hands-On: Ability to think strategically while being hands-on with project execution.  
• Attitude: No egos – we seek a team player with a positive outlook who is committed to fostering teamwork and a high-performance culture. 

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.

Closing Date for Applications

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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