I am a recruiting for a Senior Commercial Manager to support a team in York on a large infrastructure transport project. It is intended that the role will offer the opportunity to progress your career as your experience grows.

Managing our clients interface within an alliance. Includes collaborative behaviours, management of costs, and managing both the alliance management team and client's team as the Owner

• Manage and build collaborative relationships with suppliers, monitoring and reporting their performance and compliance.
• Prepare recommendations for interim payments to suppliers in accordance with contract requirements and produce payment certificates for sign off by the appropriate Project Manager.

• Provide post contract award commercial services for both 'goods' and 'services' up to and including Final Account.
• Maintain financial impact assessments for instructed change.
• Negotiate on financial impacts of Compensation Events with suppliers
• Maintain the project data sets to achieve consistency, accuracy and alignment.
• Assist cost and expenditure planning / benchmarking (including the completion of Data Capture Analysis (DCA) sheets) in accordance with client process.
• Support cost management, trending estimating and forecasting to the project.
• Analyse cost performance data and provide relevant input for monthly performance reports.
• Support management of budget and spend profiles continually identifying ways to improve cost performance.
• Manage the impact of inflation currencies and exchanges into forecasting and aligned with tracking indices.
• Carry out cost impact analysis of proposed changes to scope/schedule.
• Assist Project Managers in the preparation of cost reports and analysis on a Work Breakdown Structure /Activity basis, identifying areas of learning and any recommendations for efficiency improvement.
• Work with the client teams to integrate commercial activities.
• Identify areas of cost risk including mitigation measures and opportunity and keep the Risk Manager informed of contingency drawdown / returns.
• Work with the Procurement Manager to develop robust and optimal Procurement Plan and strategies
• Work with the contract team to ensure correct and robust contractual terms are built into contracts.

Qualifications & essential:

• Experienced professional expected to have extensive and relevant experience with a BSc/MSc or relevant equivalent qualification.
• Chartered Quantity Surveyor or equivalent in relevant discipline, or hold lower qualification
• Sound understanding of the context in which projects are to be delivered.
• Technically experienced in most aspects of their profession
• Understanding of rail infrastructure requirements for assessing risk.
• Wide and varied experience of large and complex construction projects.
• Relevant successful experience of provision of QS services in a large project environment either in contracting or consulting organisation.
• Understanding of project management, planning risk, and investment processes.

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