Senior Commercial Manager - Building Services

Bovis; Oakham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Pension contributions up to 10%

Private medical health benefit

Life assurance

25 days annual leave (+ buy/sell)

Wellbeing leave (3 days)

Wellbeing support & EAP

Gym membership discount

Parental leave

Job summary

Bovis in the United Kingdom is recruiting a procurement professional to lead and manage project procurement from strategy to contract close. You will oversee scoping, value-for-money buying, and commercial reporting while liaising with the Client team to ensure alignment with the contract.

You will manage supply chain relationships, apply risk controls and ensure payment processes, early warning of issues, and timely final accounts, delivering safe, efficient projects that meet client

Qualifications

• CSCS card holder
• Professional construction qualifications relevant to the role
• Chartered MRICS or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Procure the project in line with approved strategy; ensure orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and contracted appropriately.
• Liaise with the Client team in accordance with the contract.
• Manage supply chain relationships for a coordinated procurement approach.
• Implement and manage commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls (including OLi and PMTR/PID).
• Prepare accurate commercial reporting and contract administration; manage interim payments, change accounts, cashflows and final accounts.
• Deliver the project safely, on time, efficiently and sustainably while meeting targets and client expectations.
• Enhance the reputation of the business through high-quality delivery.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Claims defence

Tendering

Subcontract docs

Excel/cost software

Reading drawings

Interim valuations

Valuation techniques

Claims management

Education

MRICS

Professional construction qualifications

CSCS card

Tools

Cost management software

MS Excel

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.
• Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the contract.
• Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach to procurement.
• Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls of the Project (including but not limited to OLi and PMTR/PID’s).
• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration.
• This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.
• You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and
• sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.

Essential Credentials:

• Maintain CSCS card for the role
• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)
• Have a related Chartership such as MRICS

Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Skills

• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
• Ability to influence and lead teams
• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims
• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value
• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties
• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software
• Ability to read drawings and construction design information
• Valuing interim applications
• Measurement and valuation techniques
• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Knowledge

• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
• Ability to influence and lead teams
• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims
• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value
• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties
• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software
• Ability to read drawings and construction design information
• Valuing interim applications
• Measurement and valuation techniques
• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Experience

• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures
• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process
• Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems
• Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified
• Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks
• Management of cost, value and profit
• Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account
• Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business
• Good understanding of building technology / construction methods
• Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts

Behaviours

• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player
• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury
• Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities
• Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.
• Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.
• Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.
• Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.
• Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.
• Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.

We will provide:

• Car allowance
• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide
• Industry leading parental leave

Please note that due to the nature of this role, national security vetting procedures apply, and a full UK security check will be carried out for the successful candidate. Further details about national security vetting can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) or Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)