Assistant Commercial Manager
Mott MacDonald
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Full time
Posted
Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.
As Assistant Commercial Manager you will be working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team providing commercial support. This will include working closely with project managers and design managers to ensure successful delivery of projects on time and to budget. You will support with the control of both internal and external commercial aspects of projects across a range of contractual arrangements.
A bit about the team
We operate in Highways, Rail, Aviation and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as 'credible' and 'preferred' for our existing and new clients.
What you will contribute to the team:
As Assistant Commercial Manager you will be working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team providing commercial support. This will include working closely with project managers and design managers to ensure successful delivery of projects on time and to budget. You will support with the control of both internal and external commercial aspects of projects across a range of contractual arrangements.
A bit about the team
We operate in Highways, Rail, Aviation and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as 'credible' and 'preferred' for our existing and new clients.
What you will contribute to the team:
- Support and advise the project manager in respect of fulfilment of all contractual obligations.
- Produce detailed cost plans throughout the design phase of projects.
- Actively promote and implement Value engineering and value for money
- Review, appraise and report on Main Contract / Sub-contract tenders
- Monitor and process on behalf of the client commercial queries from consultants and contractors.
- Attend progress meetings to respond to commercial matters raised.
- Attend internal management meetings to input to reporting processes
- Check submitted assessments and applications and process
- Clarify any queries with consultant or contractor and agree with project managers.
- Carry out periodic commercial checks and due diligence in conjunction with the project manager to ensure information submitted corresponds to records held by the consultant or contractor.
- In conjunction with the project manager provide ongoing assessment of consultant or contractor's estimate to completion.
- Provide regular detailed finical report forecasting final project costs
- Receive and check consultant or contractor's final account. Negotiate any amendments and reach a final figure and recommendation for acceptance or rejection.
- Act in accordance with the project leaders instructions
- Comply with QES system and group/unit directives
- Preparation of monthly management reports
- Secure new and repeat business in line with the sub-divisional budget
- Prepare estimates and cost plans in line with the brief
- Preparation of standard documentation - reports, valuations, letters, financial statements etc
- Assess applications for payment inline with the contract terms
- The production of lessons learned report
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