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Mott MacDonald Bentley, along with Anglian Water and partners, are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With this in mind, we are looking to employ a Project Commercial Manager in the alliance,
"To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our staff to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week."
What will you be doing as our new Project Commercial Manager?
You will be accountable for the commercial and cost management of a project or programme of projects from inception to close out reporting directly to an Integrated Projects Leader (IPL) ensuring that maximum efficiencies are obtained and full compliance with all Alliance and Anglian Water governance procedures is achieved. Providing a commercial challenge to the IPL and team on all project matters.
Key responsibilities:
Management of Commercials:
- Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope.
- Managing and supporting the commercial and procurement strategies with the Senior Buyers to ensure the tender processes are followed correctly.
- Ensuring subcontracts are properly prepared and reflect the agreed scope and are properly managed in accordance with contract
Robust Cost Management:
- Providing accurate live forecasting taking into account the project programme and reporting in accordance with the respective WBS/CBS.
- Ensuring actual costs are properly monitored and assessed against the baseline estimate and challenge any variance to the plans.
- Providing reports on actual costs versus estimate and identifying underlying reasons for any variance and resolution
Contract Management:
- Ensuring the Alliance contract is properly administered.
- Overseeing the timely issue of early warnings and advising the IPL on all matters related to compliance.
- Ensuring that proper records are kept so that all financial information for audits and cost assurance is readily available.
- Ensuring final accounts are prepared timely and accurately.
Project and Programme Risk:
- Ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
- Proactive management of opportunities including identifying and implementing plans to realise.
- Ensuring that all identified efficiencies are monitored as to progress and report to the IPL any variances to the plan.
- Report any withheld, disputed or disallowed costs to the IPL.
Team Leadership:
- Leading and managing a small team.
- Mentoring and developing the team individuals
A little bit about your skills, experience, and behaviours:
- To be considered for this role, ideally, you’ll be educated to degree level and hold either RICS/CIOB/CICES certification. You’ll have demonstrable experience in managing complex projects ranging in size up to multi-million pounds projects.
- You’ll have a robust nature, be able to manage change, and feel comfortable challenging decisions.
- Experience in working with NEC suite of contracts, coupled with negotiating and estimating and stakeholder management skills
- With a high level of integrity and fairness, you’ll act as the commercial conscience of the IPL.
- You’ll champion collaboration and open communication and take ownership, leading with strong commercial focus.
- Working under pressure with a positive forward-thinking mentality is second nature to you as is you leading and supporting your team with a supportive empathetic approach, using your stakeholder management skills to build strong personal working relationships.
What can we offer:
- Competitive salary
- Car allowance
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy and carry over
- Flexible pension contributions up to 5% employee 10% employer
- Life assurance of 4 x salary
- Income protection
- Private medical insurance
- Health cash plan
- Annual professional institution subscription costs
- Career and professional development opportunities
For further benefits available please follow this link - Join the team at JN Bentley - Careers with JN Bentley (mottmacbentley.co.uk) If this is something you are interested in, please get in touch.
