Market
Cities & Places
Contract Manager
Dublin
Skills:
Reporting
Recruitment
Sales
Infrastructure
Governance
Manufacturing
Options
Stakeholder Management
Contract Management
NEC
Description
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
Join Jacobs and play a critical role in shaping Ireland’s most important infrastructure programmes. As a Contract Manager, you’ll bring commercial leadership and contract expertise to complex, high-profile projects such as BusConnects, DART+ and other nationally significant transport programmes.
You’ll be at the heart of delivery—ensuring robust contract management, driving performance, and supporting strategic growth opportunities—while building trusted relationships across project teams, clients and partners. Your work will directly influence how major programmes are delivered across Ireland, helping to create sustainable, future-ready infrastructure.
About the Opportunity
Jacobs is seeking a delivery-focused Contract Management professional to support commercial activities across major infrastructure programmes in Ireland.
Working across frameworks, standalone contracts and multi-package delivery environments, you will provide contract management and administration support to Tier 1 projects. You’ll interface with senior stakeholders and play a key role in ensuring successful project delivery, performance and reporting.
This role offers the opportunity to contribute not only to project execution, but also to growth and sales activities, supporting strategic opportunities across our Cities & Places business.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide NEC contract management and administration across complex infrastructure programmes
- Support delivery teams in managing commercial performance and risk
- Act as a key point of contact for contract-related matters and commercial issues
- Interface with senior stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams
- Contribute to reporting, performance tracking and governance processes
- Support wider business growth, including input into bids and strategic opportunities
Here's what you'll need
We’re looking for a commercially astute professional who thrives in complex, delivery-focused environments:
- Proven experience in contract management and commercial delivery within infrastructure or major projects
- Strong understanding of contract frameworks and administration (e.g. NEC or similar)
- Experience working across multi-sector or multi-project environments
- Established professional networks and experience within the Irish market
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Strong financial and commercial acumen with the ability to influence outcomes
Why Jacobs? What’s in it for you
At Jacobs, we’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive and high-performing environment where you can thrive:
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
- Competitive salary and annual leave entitlement with options to purchase extended leave
- Income Protection
- Pension contribution and life assurance
- Professional development and accreditation support (including opportunities aligned to NEC and commercial disciplines)
- Access to our Global Career Framework and international opportunities
- Wellbeing initiatives through our Culture of Caring
- Opportunity to work on high-impact, nationally significant projects in Ireland
- A collaborative, people-first environment where your career development is prioritised
Our Commitment
With a strong pipeline of work and growing demand across Ireland, this is a key hire to support both project delivery and future growth. You’ll be joining a business that is expanding its commercial capability and investing in talent to deliver the next generation of infrastructure.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you’re a commercially driven leader looking to play a key role in shaping Ireland’s infrastructure future, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and be part of a team that is delivering real impact across Ireland’s most important programmes.
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Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.
With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging. Find out more about our Jacobs Employee Networks here.
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As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
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Locations
| City | State | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | Dublin | Ireland |
| Cork | Co. Cork | Ireland |
| Dublin | Dublin | Ireland |
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