Commercial Manager in East London, London, United Kingdom
JOB TITLE: Commercial Manager
LOCATION: London
SALARY: £55-70k + Package
My London based client is currently recruiting for an experienced Commercial Manager with previous rail experience to work on a depot project in London.
THE ROLE
* 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.
ABOUT YOU
* Chartered Quantity Surveyor
* Understanding of rail infrastructure requirements for assessing risk.
* Sound understanding of the context in which projects are to be delivered.
* Technically experienced in most aspects of their profession.
* 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 is desirable.
* Knowledge of Employer's commercial business systems.
Qualifications
* BSc/MSc or relevant equivalent qualification.
* Chartered Quantity Surveyor
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