
Cost & Commercial Manager (NEC) - New Hospital Programme (NHP)
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To perform the role of the Commercial Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery or acting as a key element of a wider project team on larger or more complex projects
- To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre contract to handover.
- Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare and/or education sectors is beneficial
- Ability to lead clients through different stages of projects from feasibility through to completion
- Experience of working with NEC suite of contracts
- Demonstrable experience of interfacing with key stakeholders and being “client-facing” in the role of Commercial Manager
- The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing public-sector healthcare bodies
- Experience of producing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Experience of managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
- Ability to effectively negotiate and agree final accounts
- Knowledge of contract administration, value engineering and lifecycle costing
- Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, creating preliminaries, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
- Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager.
- Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
- Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
- Inputting into value engineering.
- Negotiating and agreeing final accounts.
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
- Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.
- Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity surveying.
- MRICS Qualification.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
- Experience of working in Education sector projects would be advantageous.