Commercial Manager

Exyte; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Exentec Hargreaves in London is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to lead financial controls, reporting, and contract administration across multi-site projects in the construction and manufacturing sector.

You will mentor junior QS staff, manage subcontractor onboarding and payments, and drive improvements in cost management and invoicing processes to support project delivery.

Qualifications

• Must have a BSc Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management or an equivalent.
• Experience as a Commercial Manager within a Contractor or Sub-Contractor organisation.
• Working knowledge of NEC and JCT forms of contract.
• Multi-site experience across projects.
• Experience in the M&E market.

Responsibilities

• Prepare internal commercial reporting and forecasts.
• Forecast revenue, costs and cashflow and challenge them before issuing to finance.
• Negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes.
• Ensure WIP is accurately reported in accounts.
• Manage the commercial team and submissions for client invoicing.
• Handle contractual frameworks and standard forms of contract.
• Improve cost management procedures and templates for clients.

Skills

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Contract management

Cost reporting

NEC/JCT knowledge

Multi-site experience

M&E market experience

Problem solving

Education

BSc Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management or similar

Job description

Discover your exciting role

The Role

• Assist in maintaining an injury free workplace where everybody goes home safely.
• Work with the Commercial team to apply principles and responsibilities imposed by law and other regulations in a construction and manufacturing environment.
• Develop Knowledge, Skills, and Behaviours within budgeting, control of costs, sustainability, income, and expenditure of construction projects.
• Work with the Commercial team to enable the continuous improvement of EHL projects and manufacturing facility.
• Develop strong analytical and logical skills and positive approach to problem solving.
• Production of financial project progress including cost forecasts.

Explore your tasks and responsibilities

• Preparation of internal commercial reporting and any other which may be required.
• Forecasts for future revenue, costs and cashflow will be required. You will check and challenge them before they are issued to finance, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
• Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
• You will be responsible for ensuring that WIP is accurately reported in the accounts.
• Management of the commercial team and take responsibility for submitting applications to our clients to seek approval for invoicing (you’ll ensure our job management software is utilised to complete this process where possible.
• Handling of contractual frameworks and standard form of contract.
• Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, tem-plates, products and hence improve the services provided to the clients.
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure in the form of CVR (Cost Value Reconciliation Reports)
• You will oversee the management of subcontractors, helping to ensure they are correctly onboarded and then ensuring they are paid correctly and on time.
• You will help us to track future order book pipeline, so that we know how achievable our forecasts are.
• Lead on providing mentoring and guidance as required to Assistant Quantity Surveyors and Quantity Surveyors. This includes advice on legal, technical, and procedural issues, ensuring adherence to quality management and other office procedures.
• Participate in identifying areas of risk/scope and develop/monitor with project teams / manufacturing facility.

Show your expertise

• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues of all levels and disciplines and make proactive contributions.
• The ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a valuable team member.
• BSc Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management or similar
• Experience as a Commercial Manager within a Contractor or Sub-Contractor organisation
• Working knowledge of NEC and JCT forms of contract
• Multi-site experience
• Experienced in holding responsibility for a project including all internal / external reporting.
• Experience in the M&E market

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Why Join Exentec Hargreaves?

• Be part of a 150-year engineering legacy
• Work on nationally significant, safety-critical infrastructure projects
• Join a collaborative and experienced commercial team
• Opportunity for professional growth within a specialist, high-value sector
• Competitive salary and benefits package

Our Core Competencies

• Grow Talent: Our goal as an organisation is to attract competent people, retain dedicated employees and develop talented colleagues within each operational level to build a future-ready company.
• Drive Results: To keep and grow our strong market position, we must transform our corporate strategy directly into measurable and sustainable results
• Take Ownership: We strive to establish an appreciative culture in which all employees feel empowered and take responsibility.
• Embrace Change: To develop products and services that go beyond what is imaginable today. We, as an organisation, must be agile. As individuals we must remain curious.
• Inspire Customers: Creating value for our clients is a key component of our growth strategy. Therefore, client satisfaction should be an important motivator for us individually and collectively.

Would you like to be part of the Exentec team?

For questions and further information, please contact Liz Bedford via [e-mail]

Exentec Hargreaves is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, religion, race, ethnic origin, disability, marital status or parental status. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.