Commercial Manager - UK Civils North

Location: Manchester / North West

Salary: Between £75,000 - £90,000 negotiable dependant on experience

Role

A successful provider of construction services is looking to bolster their commercial team within their UK Civils business unit with the appointment of a Commercial Manager to work on across 2 new civil engineering projects in the Northwest.
The Commercial Lead will take full commercial responsibility and ownership for the project, working closely with the Project Manager to ensure a successful project is delivered, while maintaining relationships and maximising commercial returns and managing risk.

Key Responsibilities

- Liaise with the customer, his representatives and other 3rd parties on commercial issues, including the agreement of additional monies.
- Cost and value management for project, ensuring appropriate systems and procedures are in place
- Financial reporting for project
- Change management for project: record change and allocate responsibility. Evaluate/recover any change that is not Sisks's risk/liability (including recovery from 3rd parties.
- Risk and opportunity management for project: management (with operations team) of known and newly identified risks and opportunities for best project return as well as identification and implementation of mitigation measures
- Manage commercial team to ensure delivery of key responsibilities and develop their knowledge
- Provide support and training for site staff on commercial items
- Trains and shares knowledge at every opportunity and mentors as part of Excelerate Programme
- Supervises the preparation of Cost Plans for complex projects, using a range of cost planning techniques and software, manages the compilation of data to permit various analyses
- Interrogate and manages the suite of project cost reports from raw data and provides analysis that can inform key decisions
- Prepares long term cash forecasts for complex projects, monitors results and interprets reasons for deviations. Uses established techniques to minimise outflow of cash and maximise inflow.
- Has detailed knowledge and experience of the project cost management system and can provide detailed guidance to others
- Devises innovative systems to control and monitor direct works cost and financial performance
- Devises and manages complex Project Cost Reporting systems, with associated capacity to interrogate data and identify trends
- Proposes actions in response to changes in client and stakeholder needs and expectations
- Professionally networks within and beyond Sisk and is able to draw on these contacts in support of their role
- Initiates identified and valuable business relationships and works to ensure they are developed effectively over time
- Proactively ensures own and other peoples objectives/activities are aligned to Sisk and business unit plans
- Reviews effectiveness of change procedures and develop improvements where necessary
- Reports risks associated with design liability and draft step-down clauses into Sub-Contractor/ Designer Agreements

Qualifications/Training

- Membership of a Professional Institution - such as SCSI or RICS
- Financial Management
- Dispute resolution
- Behavioural Based Safety (BBS)
- Managing and leading others

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