Senior Commercial Manager - Building Services

Key responsibilities:

As Senior Commercial Manager, you will lead and manage the commercial activities for the project. You will be running a project or a complex section of a large project.

• 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.
• 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 or MCIOB

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Essential 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

Essential Knowledge

• 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
• Experience in Commercial office projects managing large MEP packages and taking projects through to CAT B finish.

Essential Experience

• Pre-construction experience
• Background with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value
• Converting the Project to an NEC4 Option A Contract for Construction
• Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely
• Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects
• Demonstratable experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
• Procurement of work packages in line with the Project Procurement Strategy
• Conversion of the project from preconstruction to construction
• Communicating and liaising with the Client team in accordance with the contract
• Production of Tender Recommendation Reports and Contract Sum Analysis
• Preparation of Subcontracts for execution in line with limits of authority
• Procures robust packages with an understanding of package interfaces
• Manages the change process in accordance with the contract
• Prepares bid documentation to ensure a fully defined tender

Essential 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.