Commercial Director – Tier Contractor

Role:

Bracken Recruitment have an exciting opportunity of an experienced Commercial Director with a strong Civil Engineering background to join an exciting business with a fantastic reputation. The Business that we represent are a market leader and have an extremely strong pipeline of work moving forward. You will be responsible for the overall management and delivery of all commercial aspects of the £250m + division’s performance and reporting.

Provide support to the Managing Director in all commercial matters and provide direction, support, development and empowerment of individuals to achieve both divisional and individual objectives.

• Managing a team of Commercial Managers
• Assisting Bid and estimating teams
• Oversee the relationships between surveyors and operations, ensuring co-operation and engagement that allows for successful projects which support the achievement of the business objectives and that you are able to deliver the agreed budgeted margins.
• Support the Managing Director in reporting to the Board of Directors on all divisional financial issues, with clarity and transparency in all areas.
• Participate in group-wide forums and initiatives and contribute fully to the development and implementation of company policies and procedures.
• Agree target margins for all projects.
• Engage with the project teams to ensure the delivery of successful projects and to deliver the target margins.
• Liaise with Senior Operations Management to ensure that the project forecasts positions are accurate against the target margin and profit plans.
• Ensure that all contractual processes, correspondence and documentation are stored correctly.
• Liaise with Senior Management Team on contractual matters within their regions/divisions.
• Having full profit and loss accountability for the Division.
• Keep abreast of the preliminaries/site management costs and ensure that the Project team are advised accordingly so they are able to action and remedy over expenditure.
• Ensure profit plans are understood for each scheme/project and monitor and deliver on agreed areas and work on identifying further areas for recovery.

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or similar commercial related course
• Professional membership of appropriate body
• Civil Engineering background
• Leadership experience with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Bid Knowledge
• Excellent legal/contractual knowledge
• Industry experience
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Experience of a senior commercial role for a leading contractor