Commercial Manager - Rail

Pay Rate: £440 - £480 per day (Depending on Experience)

Duration: 6 months

Location: Manchester

Start: January 2021

My client is looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to join their team out of the Manchester office. The Commercial Manager will come on board to provide pre and post contract commercial support for designated packages of work, including subcontract, materials, and direct labour to help ensure projects are successfully delivered within cost and time constraints.

The ideal Commercial Manager responsibilities will be:

• Assist with commercial management of various work packages as directed. These may include:
• Design, Installation, Test & Commission, Materials, Telecoms, Electrification, Power, Plant, Professional Services, Civil Engineering and Permanent Way.
• Responsible for work package change control and management.
• Provides key commercial interface for responsible work package manager.
• Provide contractual & commercial support to Project Managers and Engineering.
• Responsible for work package cost management, including forecasting, budget management and control.
• Monitor and actively manage and mitigate work package risks.
• Provides Input to internal and external commercial reports as required by Commercial Delivery Strategy.
• Ensure processes and document control complies with the appropriate Company standards.
• Establish and maintain interfaces with key stakeholders. Eg: finance, project management, engineering, sub-contractors, suppliers, and client.
• Responsible for maintaining auditable records for responsible work packages in accordance with contractual requirements.

Commercial Manager Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years Quantity Surveyor / Contracts Administrator experience working within a contractor side project environment. Experience ideally gained in a similar or related industry e.g. rail, engineering
• Degree qualified or equivalent and/or hold or working towards professional qualification (RICS, IACCM or similar)
• Strong track record in a contractor side, project environment.
• Able to manage both direct labour and subcontract costs.
• Ability to estimate change / variations using various methods.
• Able to forecast cost and measure cost of work complete.
• Good negotiation skills
• Ability to manage commercial strategies
• Ability to manage expectations
• Strong communicator with excellent written and oral communications skills
• Good financial and commercial acumen
• Ability to work under own initiative and under cost or time critical conditions
• Good Contractual knowledge and experience.
• Confident and able to deal externally and internally at all levels.
• Ability to operate effectively within a team environment
• Strong computing skills in MS word, excel, project and MS Outlook

"VGC Personnel Ltd are acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy"

This is a great opportunity for an experienced individual but there will be a lot of competition for this position so if you are interested or know someone that is (we do run a referral scheme), please don't hesitate to send me your CV and we will be in contact soon.