M&E Commercial Manager / Commercial Divisional Lead

Location: London

Work Pattern: 4 Days a week + 1-day WFH

Salary: Up to £130,000 DOE + Package

Company

We are representing one of the UK`s leading independent Building Services Contractors that specialise in several sectors including commercial, data centres, healthcare, education and residential. With a traditional engineering mindset and reinvestment into new principals, the business has an annual turnover in excess of £250M+, operating nationwide. A huge bulk of their turnover comes from repeat business which is a standard they maintain by ensuring high standards are upkept across the board. 

As a result of winning multiple projects, they are actively looking to a Commercial Manager. This is a great opportunity to join their growing team in a management position; the projects are massive, work is being won and they’re growing at an amazing rate.

Project:

Working on a landmark commercial office projects in Central London valued at £25m MEP.

Roles & Responsibilities:

-         Overseeing a commercial teams across your project / projects (sector depending on influx of work) in the Commercial, Healthcare and Data Centre sectors.

-         Build partnerships with key stakeholders, including PQS, Main contractors and end users

-         Oversee commercial activities and prepare reports for Commercial Director.

-         Work closely with all departments including Operations, Estimating, Procurement and design to deliver profitable work.

-         The management and preparation, submission and agreement of Applications and Final Accounts.

-         The management of Sub-Contractor Interim Payments including site measure, Payment and Pay Less Notices and Final Accounts.

-         Liaise with the Operations team in the procurement of Sub-Contractor packages including financial checks, assessing commercial competitiveness and the preparation of the Sub-Contract documents / pricing.

-         Supporting the monitoring of the progress of live projects.

-         The preparation and submission of contractual notices and /or correspondence to both the Client and Sub-Contractors.

-         Preparation of cash flows, monthly cost reports and analysis of budgets.

-         The monitoring of costs across the division

-         Overseeing resource allocation and recruitment needs across both live & upcoming projects.

-         Manage a team of 3 /4 people ranging in level.

The ideal candidate will have:

-         Have detailed M&E technical knowledge and an understanding of the construction process

-         Be contractually aware and knowledgeable.

-         Experience managing a team and nurturing junior staff

-         Have good problem-solving skills

-         Have the communication skills necessary for dealing with both clients and sub-contractors.

-         Be able to work independently and manage time effectively.

-         Ideally have JCT and NEC experience

-         Experience working within the commercial, and/or healthcare, laboratories, data centre and rail sector ideally

-         Experience in a senior management role

-         Have relationships with relevant supply chain including subcontractors and suppliers.

-         Have significant experience delivering multiple projects; to understand the fundamentals of managing multiple project teams.