Senior Commercial Manager - Building Services

Key responsibilities:

  • Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.

  • Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the contract.

  • Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach to procurement.

  • Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls of the Project (including but not limited to OLi and PMTR/PID’s).

  • Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration.

  • This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.

  • You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and

  • sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.

Essential Credentials:

  • Maintain CSCS card for the role

  • Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)

  • Have a related Chartership such as MRICS

Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Skills

  • Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships

  • Ability to influence and lead teams

  • Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims

  • Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value

  • Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties

  • Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software

  • Ability to read drawings and construction design information

  • Valuing interim applications

  • Measurement and valuation techniques

  • Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Knowledge

  • Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships

  • Ability to influence and lead teams

  • Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims

  • Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value

  • Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties

  • Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software

  • Ability to read drawings and construction design information

  • Valuing interim applications

  • Measurement and valuation techniques

  • Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Experience

  • Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures

  • Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process

  • Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems

  • Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified

  • Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks

  • Management of cost, value and profit

  • Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account

  • Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business

  • Good understanding of building technology / construction methods

  • Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts

Behaviours

  • Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player

  • Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury

  • Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities

  • Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.

  • Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.

  • Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.

  • Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.

  • Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.

  • Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.

We will provide:

  • Car allowance

  • Up to 10% employer pension contribution

  • Private medical health benefit

  • Life assurance

  • 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days

  • 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave

  • Health and wellbeing support and initiatives

  • 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services

  • Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide

  • Industry leading parental leave

Please note that due to the nature of this role, national security vetting procedures apply, and a full UK security check will be carried out for the successful candidate. Further details about national security vetting can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) or Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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