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Senior Product Manager - Commercial & Contract Management, Construction & Engineering

IFS Itasca, IL

Itasca, IL

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$150k - $175k/yr Full time Manager Senior Ai Workflows

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Job Description

Join IFS Construction & Engineering and help shape how construction and engineering organizations manage contracts, procurement, subcontract commitments, commercial risk, project change, and financial outcomes across the full project lifecycle. This role combines product strategy with measurable customer impact, including opportunities to apply AI-driven innovation to accelerate discovery and improve trusted decision support in commercial management.

At IFS, you will work within a global enterprise software environment serving customers who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and run service-focused operations. With 7,000+ employees and a growing partner ecosystem supporting 10,000+ customers worldwide, this is a chance to contribute to an industry-recognized platform and help customers move beyond isolated features toward a cohesive end-to-end commercial management experience.

What you will do

Define and communicate the vision and strategy for Commercial & Contract Management across IFS Construction & Engineering.
Establish a differentiated market position across contract management, procurement, subcontract management, and commercial controls.
Translate customer feedback, market trends, industry insight, and competitive intelligence into focused product investments.
Own and evolve a roadmap balancing innovation, architectural modernization, adoption, customer retention, and commercial growth.
Drive cross-domain alignment across project management, project controls, procurement, finance, project accounting, risk management, and document management.
Engage directly with construction and engineering customers to understand commercial processes, procurement workflows, contractual risk, and operating models.
Validate customer problems and product opportunities before committing investment, and build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and industry experts.
Set up lighthouse customers and design partners for discovery, prototyping, validation, and early adoption.
Ensure product strategy is grounded in measurable customer outcomes and business value, owning specifications for user workflows, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
Lead functional prototyping and validate solutions with real users before development, working closely with engineering and design as part of a high-performing product triad.
Apply systems thinking across contracts, procurement, project execution, change management, cost control, revenue management, and commercial risk.
Build investment cases with clear customer, strategic, and financial outcomes, and partner to move from validated problem to adopted product.
Support go-to-market activities including positioning, enablement, launch planning, and customer engagement, and represent the product area with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and internal stakeholders.
Measure success through customer outcomes, adoption, retention, revenue influence, and commercial impact.

You will also focus on AI-enabled capabilities across procurement, supplier management, contract administration, obligation management, commercial risk, and contract change management, using AI to accelerate discovery, research, prototyping, and product definition while ensuring outcomes are tangible and decision support is trusted. Finally, you will own the end-to-end problem-to-outcome journey and support strengthening subcontract-management capabilities alongside a broader commercial management framework connecting contracts, procurement, supplier commitments, contract changes, and project financial outcomes.

Required qualifications

Significant product-management experience within a software company delivering SaaS, ERP, construction-management, project-management, procurement, or enterprise software solutions.
Direct responsibility for commercial management, contract management, procurement management, subcontract management, project controls, or related capabilities within an enterprise software portfolio.
Strong domain experience in construction, engineering, EPC, infrastructure, contractors, specialist subcontractors, or project-centric industries.
Deep understanding of commercial processes including contracts, procurement and supplier commitments, subcontract management, change orders and variations, obligations and compliance, valuation/payment/retention/claims, and cost, revenue, margin, and cash-flow impacts.
Proven ownership across product strategy, roadmap, discovery, delivery, launch, and adoption.
Customer-facing experience with both operational users and executive stakeholders.
Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and prioritization skills.
Experience collaborating with global engineering and design teams.
Fluent English communication skills.
Based in Europe or North America with willingness to travel as required.

Bonus areas (desirable experience)

Construction commercial management, quantity surveying, procurement management, contract administration, or project controls experience.
Familiarity with major construction contracting models and commercial delivery frameworks used in Europe or North America.
Experience with construction ERP, project controls, procurement, contract management, or capital-project software platforms.
Understanding of project accounting, forecasting, cost controls, earned value, applications for payment, supplier payments, and revenue management.
Experience modernizing enterprise software products and introducing AI-enabled capabilities.
Exposure to pricing, monetization, business-case development, or product P&L ownership.
Experience creating customer design-partner or lighthouse-customer programs.
Degree or equivalent experience in construction management, engineering, quantity surveying, business, computer science, or a related discipline.

Compensation and benefits

Salary: USD $150,000 - $175,000 per year plus bonus
Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401K with company contribution
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and disability benefits
Tuition assistance
Community involvement and volunteering events

Additional information

Interviews and selections are being made continuously, so apply as soon as possible. As part of the recruitment process, final candidates will undergo a background check. IFS respectfully declines all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

Technology focus: AI, SaaS, ERP

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