Cost & Commercial Leader - Infrastructure (Hybrid)

Gardiner & Theobald LLP; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible hybrid working

Collaborative project environments

Job summary

Gardiner & Theobald LLP in Greater Dublin seeks a Cost & Commercial Manager to lead cost and commercial management for diverse infrastructure projects. The role reports to senior leadership and offers exposure to high-profile clients, consultants and contractors within a dynamic, client-focused team.

The successful candidate will manage contract administration, cost estimation, planning and procurement activities, with opportunities for mentoring and progression within a collaborative, ESG‑aware

Responsibilities

• Drafting and managing FIDIC, NEC and public sector contractual correspondence
• Preparing and recommending payment notices and / or pay less notices
• Evaluating (time and / or cost) change items (variations, claims, force majeure events, etc.)
• Participating in dispute avoidance (negotiation) and / or resolution (adjudication, etc.)
• Ensuring all contractual administration is executed within agreed governance parameters
• Implementing / maintaining a robust system for the provision of all contractual-based records
• Advising on cost-related matters in keeping with the client’s reporting procedures
• Preparing and maintaining the CBS and WBS
• Adhering to the management and administration of project-related change
• Inputting into the assessment of earned value metrics (CPI and SPI)
• Preparing project- and contract-based cost forecasts, liabilities and accruals
• Implementing / maintaining a robust system for the provision of all cost-based records
• Providing estimating advice and support to the client in keeping with best industry practice
• Preparing and / or assuring estimates and / or cost plans
• Drafting unambiguous assumptions and exclusions associated with individual estimates
• Measuring and quantifying scope from drawings and specifications
• Undertaking value engineering exercises with the wider project team
• Advising on benchmarks and qualifying the same as required
• Drafting all programme-related correspondence to protect the client’s interests
• Reporting all commercial-based KPI’s in an accurate and robust manner
• Ensuring commercial matters are managed within agreed governance parameters
• Inputting into the assessment of earned value metrics (CPI and SPI)
• Advising on the FIDIC, NEC and public sector contracts commercial implications of potential time-based mitigation measures
• Implementing / maintaining a robust system for the provision of all planning-based records
• Advising on regulated and unregulated tender events in keeping with best industry practice
• Preparing procurement and contract strategies to satisfy the client’s requirements
• Drafting robust and concise commercial-related elements of tender documentation
• Managing tender clarifications and queries in tandem with the wider project team
• Evaluating tender returns in compliance with the corresponding criteria
• Awarding contracts whilst minimising the risk of challenge by unsuccessful tenderers
• Providing risk-related advice and support to the client in keeping with best industry practice
• Liaising with the wider project team to support the risk management process
• Reviewing of commercial elements of risk registers at regular intervals
• Measuring and quantifying risks in keeping with project-related requirements
• Managing and administering contractual risk workshops
• Implementing / maintaining a robust system for the provision of all risk-based records
• Providing guidance to (and mentoring) more junior members of the commercial team
• Acting as a 'sounding board' for best practice with respect to technical skill and behaviour
• Leading the project team through effective decision making
• Supporting colleagues with their chartership-based endeavours (RICS, CICES, APM, etc.)
• Leading on Gardiner & Theobald’s Career Action Plan (CAP) process for direct reports
• Motivating team members to support business / project / contract targets

Job description

Gardiner & Theobald LLP in Greater Dublin seeks a Cost & Commercial Manager to lead cost and commercial management for diverse infrastructure projects. The role reports to senior leadership and offers exposure to high-profile clients, consultants and contractors within a dynamic, client-focused team.

The successful candidate will manage contract administration, cost estimation, planning and procurement activities, with opportunities for mentoring and progression within a collaborative, ESG‑aware