Senior Product Manager

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters - at the Moment of Service. We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities.

Construction and engineering projects succeed or fail based on how effectively organizations manage commercial commitments, contractual obligations, procurement, change, cost, and risk. We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager, Commercial & Contract Management to lead the strategy and evolution of IFS capabilities covering:

• Customer and sales contract management
• Procurement and supplier commitments
• Material and equipment procurement
• Subcontract management
• Contract changes, variations, and change orders
• Commercial controls across the project lifecycle

This is a senior, hands-on product leadership role for someone who understands how commercial and contractual processes operate in real construction and engineering environments and has translated that understanding into successful enterprise software products. You will own the problem-to-outcome journey for the Commercial & Contract Management product area. You will define the vision and strategy, identify the most valuable customer and market problems, build evidence-led investment cases, and lead discovery and product definition with customers, engineering, design, sales, and industry specialists.

Core Responsibilities:

• Own the Product Strategy: Define and communicate the vision and strategy for Commercial & Contract Management within IFS Construction & Engineering.
• Lead Customer and Market Discovery: Engage directly with construction and engineering customers to understand commercial processes, procurement workflows, contractual risk, and operating models.
• Define the Product: Own product specifications describing customer problems, business outcomes, user workflows, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
• Deliver Commercial and Customer Outcomes: Build investment cases with clear customer, strategic, and financial outcomes.
• Shape the Future of Commercial Management: Identify opportunities for AI-driven innovation across procurement, supplier management, contract administration, obligation management, commercial risk, and contract change management.

You will succeed in this role if you are:

• Customer obsessed and committed to solving meaningful industry problems.
• Commercially minded and focused on measurable business outcomes.
• Outcome driven, prioritizing impact over feature count.
• Credible in the industry, able to engage with experienced construction and commercial professionals.
• Decisive and pragmatic, able to make difficult prioritization decisions.
• Collaborative, working effectively across product, engineering, design, sales, consulting, and customer success.
• Technically fluent, comfortable discussing architecture, APIs, data models, integrations, and AI.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, providing clarity and direction in evolving situations.
• Hands-on, willing to engage directly in discovery, prototyping, specification, and customer engagement.
• A multiplier, helping improve product-management practices and mentoring others.

What We’re Offering:

• Salary Range: $150,000 to $175,000 CAD annually + variable bonus
• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• RRSP matching
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

Essential Experience:

• Significant product-management experience within a software company developing 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 within construction, engineering, EPC, infrastructure, contractors, specialist subcontractors, or project-centric industries.
• Deep understanding of commercial processes including customer and sales contracts, procurement and supplier commitments, subcontract management, change orders and contract variations, commercial obligations and compliance.
• Demonstrated ownership of product strategy, roadmap, discovery, delivery, launch, and adoption.
• Strong customer-facing experience working with both operational users and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and prioritization skills.
• Fluent English communication skills.
• Based in Europe or North America with willingness to travel as required.

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.
• Degree or equivalent experience in construction management, engineering, quantity surveying, business, computer science, or a related discipline.