Description
Opportunity Overview
An opportunity has arisen to join the Commercial and Business improvement team to support the delivery of the Highways Term Service Contract for Central Bedfordshire.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the management of commercial aspects of the business area including supporting contract delivery and operations, managing commercial risk and opportunity, ensuring accuracy of forecasts and that all commercial reporting procedures are adhered to.
- Supporting the delivery of projects, monitoring compliance with contract obligations and driving value from the supply chain.
Qualifications
- Degree in quantity surveying or other commercially related discipline.
- Professional member of RICS or equivalent.
Skills Required
- Understanding of value management and programme development and monitoring, ensuring delivery against key targets.
- NEC4 Contract Management framework experience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills in creating and maintaining relationships, able to converse with clients and peers at a senior level.
- Digitally savvy with ability to build lasting client relationships and provide support to multi-disciplinary teams within a commercial environment.
- Commercial management experience within the highways/infrastructure sector.
Career Growth
Hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Central Bedfordshire has to offer.
Key Tasks
To achieve this, you will:
1. Maintain and build relationships with suppliers, monitoring and reporting their performance and compliance.
2. Prepare recommendations for interim payments to suppliers in accordance with contract requirements; produce payment certificates for sign off.
3. Maintain financial impact assessments for instructed change.
4. Negotiate on financial impacts of compensation events with suppliers.
5. Maintain project data sets to achieve consistency, accuracy, alignment.
6. Assist cost/expenditure planning/benchmarking (including completion of data capture analysis sheets) in accordance with client process.
7. Support cost management, trending estimating forecasting on projects.
8. Analyze cost performance data; provide relevant input for monthly performance reports.
9. Support management of budget/spend profiles continually identifying ways to improve cost performance.
10.Mange impact of inflation currencies/exchanges into forecasting aligned with tracking indices.
11.Carry out cost impact analysis on proposed changes scope/schedule.
12.Assist project managers in preparation cost reports/analysis on work breakdown structure/activity basis; identify areas learning/recommendations efficiency improvement.
Team Leadership
The role will involve leading a small team of Quantity Surveyors providing them strategic/operational direction needed.
Collaboration
You will work closely with Senior Officers, elected members, other Council teams ensuring that network management/improvement supports Council priorities/policy documents.
Call To Action
If you would like to help make Central Bedfordshire a great place to live/work we would like to hear from you!