Project Commercial Director

Kier Group plc.; North Kesteven; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in the UK is seeking a Project Commercial Director to provide strategic leadership in a construction team. The role involves managing commercial teams, guiding margin maximization, and ensuring bid reviews are thorough. Candidates should have a proven track record in leading construction projects, excellent influencing skills, and contractual knowledge, particularly of the NEC suite. This role also emphasizes diversity and inclusion and requires completion of a Government Security Check.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading large portfolio of construction projects.
• Ability to manage and motivate commercial and cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of demand planning and cross project procurement.

Responsibilities

• Accountability for managing and motivating the commercial team.
• Guide and drive creativity and plans to maximize margin.
• Ensure bids are reviewed technically for design and risk profile.

Skills

Influencing and negotiation skills

Team building and leadership

Contractual knowledge (NEC suite)

Job description

As a Project Commercial Director, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in providing strategic, visible leadership across your assigned project. Your day to day will include:

• Accountability for managing and motivating the commercial team as well as cross functional teams including procurement and administration.
• A talent leader, able to identify, grow and progress potential talent to build long-term organisational capability for the region and group as a whole.
• Ensuring we leverage our scale by excellent demand planning and cross project procurement liaising with other parts of the BU/stream as required.
• Ensure technically the bids are reviewed in terms of design and programme to ensure the full risk profile is clearly understood.
• Guide and drive creativity and plans to maximise margin and cash. This role of Project Commercial Director is great for you if you have a proven track record of leading a large portfolio of construction projects or a major project with strong front‑end experience.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to establish and build teams with appropriate skills, and to recruit, train, retain.
• A range of contractual knowledge including the NEC suite of contracts. Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance, which takes place before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. (Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit jobs.kier.co.uk/prison-programme/). This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.