Commercial Manager - Rail

6+ Month Contract – to start immediately

Up to £388/day Ltd - £450/day Umbrella in scope of IR35

Based in Leeds

Our client is a well established Nationwide Rail company whose professionalism and well respected name have been instrumental in their success. They provide an exceptional service to their customers and are focused on continually improving this.

Our client is looking for an experienced Commercial Manager with around 5-10 years experience to work as part of a team supporting the management of multiple projects across all disciplines of the rail industry, Track, OLE, Signalling and Civils and will include post contract administration and pre-contract support.

You will need:

Essential

• 5 years’ + experience in commercially managing rail projects.
• Demonstrable experience with target cost contracts.
• Experience with contract administration and pre-contract support.
• Good understanding of railway and construction industry forms of contract.
• Good understanding of Network Rail processes.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Experienced user of Oracle.

Desirable

• Educated to degree standard in related subject.
• Membership of a relevant professional institute, chartered status.
• Significant experience of working within a generalist commercial environment.
• Awareness of industry issues.

The Role:

• Support the Programme and project teams in monitoring for breaches of corporate governance –compliance with Corporate Governance rules in a timely manner.
• Manage cost reporting of all allocated projects within the reporting framework including Cost, Forecasting, Anticipated Final Cost, Cost of Work Done, Gross Billing and Current Contract Value.
• Monitor, manage and report on all commercial aspects of allocated projects, flagging issues and proposing mitigation actions at the earliest opportunity to Project Manager and/or Programme Commercial Manager (functional reporting line) and/or Senior Commercial Manager etc

For a full job description and more information contact Linda Davison now on <phone number removed> , or to apply please email your C.V immediately to linda. davison @ vital. uk. com

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