Senior Commercial Manager

The successful candidate will be required to lead cost reporting of portfolio projects and report on all commercial aspects. A key part of this role is to lead the commercial review of high value/high risk projects and attend valuation and progress meetings. Your experience will enable you to lead the challenge of cost elements, audit where appropriate and confirm whether valuations are consistent with agreed site progress.

As an experienced Commercial Manager, you will provide pro-active specialist expertise and advice on all proposed scope changes. You must recommend mitigating action on all commercial risk and claim events, providing management reports. Your experience will enable you to manage all commercial correspondence and contractual notices and you will lead the final account settlements on all projects to manage close out as per the project authority. You must also support the demonstration of efficiencies and continual improvement of estimating by undertaking cost analysis. An ability to provide high level support to the estimating team to negotiate all prices under existing contracts is essential. This role requires you to participate in the associated Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and Value Management Workshops, confirming whether each project estimate contains sufficient allowance for the provisions of compliance with all Network Rail standards. Do you have….?

• A relevant professional qualification?
• Knowledge of the railway and construction industry?
• Experience of managing and developing staff?
• Top class negotiating skills?
Are you….?
• Motivated by innovative projects?
• Enthusiastic about creating a world-class railway infrastructure?
• A to communicate and influence people at all levels of our business?
• A strong team player?
• Able to thrive within an ambitious team?