Farnborough
About the role:
- Responsible to a Project Manager or Commercial Manager for all commercial aspects of a project or sections or particular scope of a project. Identifying commercial needs and shortfalls and bringing to the attention of the Commercial manager or Project manager
- Expected to identify needs and manage and provide development and support to commercial team.
- Responsible for planning and managing own work and that of commercial team members and Senior Quantity Surveyors.
- Prepares the basis of the project procurement schedule and ensures the team complete relevant sections.
- Carries out subcontract procurement in accordance with the procurement timetable.
- Ensures that materials and off site services are procured in an efficient manner.
- Prepares basis of robust work package contents sheets and ensures the team complete relevant sections.
- Carries out gap analysis between packages to ensure full subcontract procurement takes place.
- Prepare and ensure that subcontract invitations to tender and evaluate tender returns.
- Make recommendations to appoint and places subcontracts.
- Work with supply chain to promote and measure continuous improvement in terms of cost and quality.
- Maximise cash flow through timely preparation of valuations, submission of invoices and receipt of payment
- Manage prompt preparation and settlement of final accounts, including variations, claims and disputes
- Develops a strategy for concluding client negotiations.
- Identify, manage, reduce and drive out unnecessary costs and inefficient activities
- Prepare and ensure material wastage reconciliations are completed and the resultant data distributed.
- Monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and or exceed targets.
- Review plant and equipment schedules to ensure efficiency of use
- Production of accurate and timely CVR reports and forecasts and assist the CM setting of financial targets.
- Establish and maintain robust reporting structures and monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and or exceed targets
- Uses a high-level understanding of planning and programming, and a detailed knowledge of financial reporting to provide challenge to the rest of the project team to ensure robust and honest progress reporting.
- Early identification of project risks and opportunities, ensuring that risks and opportunities are managed, and risk and opportunity registers are in use to minimise risks and realise opportunities.
- Ensure that any “Change” is identified through participation in regular and detailed review of construction information, measured against the contract requirements.
- Ensure that all “Change” is challenged where the performance of the project could be affected.
- Ensure that the cost, time, and money of all client “Change” is recovered
- Carry out early value engineering activities as part of the project team, ensuring all associated costs of change are included within the evaluation.
- Assists and provides advice on programmes regarding contractual and commercial requirements to mitigate risk, and maximize opportunity.
- Ensures the project team understands the contractual relationships between parties and stakeholders
- Ensures that all necessary contractual notices are put in place, timely and accurately.
- Prepare and ensure all necessary subcontract notices and instructions are accurate and raised.
- Put in place and adhere to robust subcontract change control procedures
- Prepare and ensure that timely and accurate payments for authorization
- Manage prompt preparation and settlement of final accounts, including Compensation Events (variations), claims and disputes
- Re-measurement and provision of quantified schedules of works and / or bills of quantities
- Ensure on-site quantification of unfixed materials and quantification of off-site materials where necessary
- Excellent salary Neg
- Full company benefits including Car or Car allowance