Senior Commercial Manager - Data Centre

Currie & Brown; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager for a Data Centre development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The role supports project leaders to deliver high-quality service, share knowledge across projects, and reinforce our reputation as a leading provider.

The successful candidate will manage cost, contracts and commercial teams on a live project, provide strategic proposals, and ensure rigorous financial control and timely outputs. A strong track record in the Middle East is essential.

Qualifications

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
• 10–15 years’ technical delivery experience in a global construction consultancy.
• Pre- and post-contract experience.
• Experience in the Middle East region and diverse sectors.
• Experience advising and administering contractual matters.
• Experience leading commercial and contracts teams within live projects.
• Strong writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, proactive and commercially astute.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Lead and coordinate a team of cost, contracts and commercial managers on a live project.
• Analyze project data efficiently.
• Set up workshops to achieve cost savings.
• Deliver projects, commissions and professional assignments.
• Maintain clear communication for successful project completion; liaise with managers for financial control.
• Undertake commercial management services with limited supervision.
• Deliver outputs accurately and on time.
• Represent the company professionally in negotiations and client meetings.

Skills

Team leadership

Client communication

Contractual matters

Commercial awareness

Technical writing

Education

BSc Quantity Surveying

RICS Chartered member

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking to recruit a Senior Commercial Manager for a Data Centre development project in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities will include:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Managing, leading and co-ordinating a team of cost, contracts and commercial managers within a live project environment
• Analysing project data efficiently
• Setting up and managing workshops to achieve the required cost savings
• Providing ad-hoc high-level strategic proposals as required
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for successful project completion; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to maintain strong working relationships

Requirements:

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
• a Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• A minimum of 10-15 years’ technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Experience of working in variety of sectors and projects in the Middle East region
• Experience of providing advice and administering on contractual matters
• Experience of managing and leading commercial and contracts management teams within a live project environment
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ’can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Our corporate values

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.