Join our client as a key member of their management team, ensuring the successful financial completion of multiple challenging construction projects from contract award through to completion.

You will be responsible for the commercial management of a section of a large project or on several smaller projects. You will be working on a School project based in Yeovil (New Build) with a budget of approximately £12.5 million.

What You Will Be Doing

-Coordinating with, reporting to, and implementing the reasonable directives of the Regional Director/Manager and the Commercial Manager (functional reporting).
-Ensuring the timely submission of all relevant data required to monitor and analyse individual contract performance on a monthly and quarterly basis thereafter.
-Liaising with Contracts Managers on the day-to-day commercial administration of contracts to ensure the financial success of construction operations and to keep the Commercial Manager apprised of all material events.
-Preparing accurate draft sub-contracts and/or approving such drafts as prepared by the Commercial Team within the Region.
-Supervising, mentoring, and encouraging junior staff in their personal professional development.
-Ensuring consultation with contracts management that all necessary notices and submissions required by the various forms of contract are given in an expedient manner.
-Ensuring that main contract payment applications contain all necessary admeasure/additional cost claims and that the timely submission of detailed claims and final accounts is achieved.
-Assisting the Contracts Manager in the administration of sub-contractor performance to ensure the economic and timely completion of all sub-contractor liabilities written into the sub-contract.
-Ensuring prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and subsequent cash collection, together with the preparation of sub-contractor payments (strictly in accordance with specified payment terms).
-Involvement in dispute avoidance/resolution.
-Managing meetings.
-Line management responsibility for members of the commercial team.

What We Will Need From You

-Sound and comprehensive understanding of the construction industry and the parties to it.
-Proficient knowledge of measurement and valuation.
-Good knowledge of NEC forms of contract (desirable).
-Proficient in reading drawings, specifications, and knowledge of the construction process.
-Ability to negotiate with clients/sub-contractors and draft sub-contracts.
-Knowledge of CIS.
-Ability to produce accurate monthly cost and value reports and outturn financial forecasts.
-Ability to work in a team environment.
-Awareness of dispute procedures.
-Experience in undertaking risk assessments and valuation of them in conjunction with other project team members.
-Extensive experience in working on live projects and final accounts.
-Experience in value engineering.
-Successfully completed several final accounts.
-Experience in procuring major works sub-contracts.
-Professional membership of a recognised institute (e.g., RICS) (desirable).
-Proficient in the use of Microsoft packages (e.g., Excel, Word & PowerPoint).
-Experience in managing, mentoring, and developing staff.