Contracts and Commercial Manager in Belfast

At CGI, we are shaping the digital future of the UK’s public sector, delivering high-impact transformation programmes that improve services for millions of citizens. As a Contracts and Commercial Manager, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding value, enabling growth, and ensuring our multi-million-pound contracts deliver measurable outcomes. Working as a trusted partner to senior leaders and clients, you will help us navigate complexity, manage risk, and unlock opportunity—driving commercial excellence while contributing to a collaborative culture where your expertise, judgement, and initiative truly make a difference.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position based in Belfast.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the full commercial lifecycle across several high-profile, multi-million-pound public sector contracts.
• Act as a trusted adviser to business and sector leads, shaping bids and proposals, managing commercial risk, and driving value for both CGI and our clients.
• Build strong, credible relationships and confidently challenge risk where necessary to ensure sustainable, compliant and profitable delivery.
• Proactively resolve issues, guide client-facing teams on commercial awareness, and continuously improve processes and practices across the wider commercial community.
• Make balanced, commercially sound decisions that protect and grow our business.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead & Own commercial management of multiple complex contracts.
• Shape & Advise on bids, proposals and commercial strategy.
• Mitigate & Manage commercial risk across the contract lifecycle.
• Resolve & Negotiate escalated issues and disputes.
• Challenge & Influence senior stakeholders on risk and opportunity.
• Improve & Share best practice across commercial processes.
• Enable & Educate client-facing teams on commercial awareness.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

You will bring several years experience in a comparable commercial or contracts management role, with a proven track record of managing complex agreements in a regulated or public sector environment. You should combine strong commercial judgement with resilience, negotiation expertise, and the confidence to challenge constructively while maintaining trusted relationships.

Essential qualifications and experience:

• Several years’ experience managing a range of complex contracts.
• Degree-level education, ideally in Legal, Business, Finance or a related discipline.
• Professional membership (e.g. WCC) is desirable.
• Strong negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Proven ability to manage commercial risk and competing priorities.
• Confidence to influence and challenge senior stakeholders diplomatically.
• Eligibility to obtain SC-level Security Clearance.

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because you are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.