Vice President Commercial

Job Description Overview

Join AtkinsRéalis as Vice President Commercial and lead a critical function within our Nuclear Canada Business Unit during a period of significant growth and transformation. This executive leadership role offers the opportunity to shape commercial strategy, strengthen governance, support major nuclear programs, and develop high-performing teams that drive sustainable business success across domestic and international markets.

Your Role

Provide executive leadership to the Commercial function, ensuring the organization has the capability, structure, succession plans, and performance culture required to support growth.

Lead commercial, contractual, proposal, and risk management strategies across a portfolio of complex nuclear projects throughout their full lifecycle.

Develop and implement forward-looking commercial strategies, including contracting models, procurement approaches, risk allocation, and commercial controls.

Advise executive leadership on commercial risk, liabilities, margin protection, governance, and strategic decision-making.

Represent AtkinsRéalis in complex negotiations and engagements with clients, partners, suppliers, regulators, and other senior stakeholders.

Oversee commercial governance frameworks, including bid approvals, contract approvals, risk reviews, and major commitment assurance processes.

Develop future commercial leaders through recruitment, mentoring, succession planning, and performance management.

About You

Ability to provide executive-level leadership in commercial, contractual, risk, and governance functions within complex project environments.

Proficiency in commercial strategy, contract management, claims, procurement, risk allocation, and project delivery assurance.

Ability to influence senior executives, clients, partners, suppliers, and external stakeholders on critical business decisions.

Aptitude for leading high-performing teams, developing talent pipelines, and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.

Ability to translate complex commercial, contractual, and risk matters into clear recommendations that support strategic business objectives.

Rewards & Benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada. Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs. Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Additional Information

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

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