Senior Commercial Manager

What’s the Opportunity

Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are you prepared for a new challenge? If you work in Infrastructure, enjoy working in an outcome focused market, are excited at the prospect of joining a new team with ambitious growth aspirations, and prioritise company values, culture and your work-life balance then we may be the team for you.

In light of our recent successes, we have a number of positions available within our Commercial team, spanning various sectors such as energy, transportation, and utilities. This position can be located in any of our offices: Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, London, Winchester, Reading, Oxford, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, or Newcastle

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• The ability to manage commission teams/key accounts/sectors providing professional support, guidance and leadership as required.
• Have the ability to operate effectively within a co-located environment integrated with the Client, other Consultant's and Contractor's project delivery teams.
• Ability to work within a partnering environment, form effective working relationships and strive to provide positive outcomes to the Client.
• Produce cost plans, estimates, benchmarking analysis of schemes, awareness of whole life cost.
• Undertake procurement activities in support of the Client as required.
• Undertake contract administration on a project or programme of work; including payment applications, preparation of certificates, cost control, cost scrutiny, risk and value management, assisting the project teams with early warnings, instructions and compensation events and change management.
• Identify opportunities for cost-saving and optimisation of the contract, as well as providing advice to our clients as required.
• Support decision making using date driven insight.
• Support the production of commercial reports incorporating metrics (e.g. EVM, outturn analysis)
• Be able to assess commercial risk and implement suitable control measures where required.
• Ability to take a leading role and advise on the management and resolution of variations, commercial disputes and claims arising.
• Undertake performance measurement of Contractor’s and take appropriate corrective action where required.
• Take a lead on commission finance.
• Ability to manage internal and external stakeholder parties to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Identifying new opportunities and support in the development of work winning.
• Identifying new opportunities to support the business unit.

Skills and experience you need to have for this role    

• Construction or infrastructure background in at least one of the following sectors/regulated industries: Energy, Transportation, Defence and/or Utilities.
• Preferably degree qualified in a relevant discipline to the role.
• Candidates will be associate or full members of RICS (or an appropriate professional institution) or be committed to obtaining chartered status.
• Candidates will have line management experience.
• Have both site and office-based experience on a variety of infrastructure projects.
• Successful applicants will have a background on pre and post contractual administration of the NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract. NEC Accredited is desired but not essential.
• Be collaborative, with a can-do, problem-solving attitude.
• The aspiration to join a growing team where the prospect of contributing to something new excites you.
• Desire to get involved in work winning and networking activities.
• Have an understanding and have used cost software including, but not limited to CostX, CEMAR etc.
• Have an understanding of the Construction Playbook, Value Toolkit, Project 13 and Public Procurement regulations.