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A successful company who manufacturer, design & install roofing systems used within commercial projects across the UK are seeking a Commercial Manager to bring commercial discipline to the projects business. The role will be central to defining a new project management pathway, ensuring projects are delivered effectively to our customers, within timeframes and budgetary requirements. The focus will be on ensuring robust cost discipline, as well as negotiating project variations.

Key Responsibilities:

* Acting as the company’s commercial lead for all project management related areas of the business

* Maintain an accurate account of the costs associated with each project, ensuring they are tracked through appropriate measurement systems

* Ensuring projects are delivered on time, and on budget

* Drafting, negotiating, and amending contracts with clients

* Leading challenging negotiations and settlements with clients, and/or other parties where necessary

* Challenging project variations and costs with clients where necessary

* Development of a project backlog management process, detailing all current projects, project profitability, then implementation plan over the coming years

* Recording and maintaining a log of all project retentions, then ensuring they are collected in a timely fashion

* Minimising the level of materials held on projects to the most efficient level, balancing the need for effective and timely delivery, with minimal inventory

* Where necessary, sourcing and negotiating the price of materials, then maintaining an efficient route of supply

* Agreeing project plans with clients, ensuring they are realistic and can be delivered on time and within expectations and budgetary constraints

* Agree dates for applications for payments (AFPs) to clients, then ensuring they are correctly raised to clients on the agreed timescales

* Developing strong internal relationships with the finance team

* Utilise client relationships to track payments associated with projects

* Ensuring compliance with regulatory, Health & Safety requirements where necessary

* Attend client meetings, on site where required, upholding the discipline of regular client and/or project meetings to deliver an effective project

* Make recommendations around team training and development

* Understand and maintain knowledge of the markets served, staying informed on client activities, market dynamics and industry trends

Experience & Qualifications:

* Ideally degree qualified, or professional commercial qualification

* Strong commercial analytics skills, highly numerate, with the ability to understand and analyse numbers

* Proficiency in cost negotiation and complex client negotiations

* Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

* 5+ years’ experience in a similar commercial function, in a project role, or as a Quantity Surveyor

* 5+ years’ experience of managing and motivating teams, ideally commercially and operationally based

* Demonstrable commercial background in a sub contracting environment – able to evidence management of a projects business in a previous role

* Inspires confidence and respect of peers, customers and partners

* Financially astute, with the ability to assess risk and where/how best to align resources and capabilities for maximum effect

* Ability to present and inspire internally and externally

This is a hybrid role, office based in Livingston, but with some options for home working. Travel across the UK is required

For more information please contact Mat Gibson quoting reference MM5892