Commercial Manager

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Company Description

United Malibu is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors.

Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.

Business Areas

Utility Infrastructure –

Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK's largest network owners and operators.

Social Infrastructure –

Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance.

Job Description ац

Due to recent contract wins our Social Infrastructure team are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager. Previous experience of working on Social Housing refurbishment contracts would be beneficial.

Purpose

The role will encompass both work winning and the delivery of live projects whilst providing strong functional leadership, management, governance and excellence for all commercial activities pre and post contract, across either a single large project or portfolio of projects.

Specific Responsibilities

• Ensure that United Living's SHEQ standards, operating processes and company policies are understood and adhered to at all times and that, as far as is reasonably practicable, legislative requirements are complied with.
• Ensure that all employees are inducted into the United Way of working and that allريب employees are complying with and adopting this in their daily disciplines.
• Act in a professional manner in everything you do such that the Company's reputation is enhanced.

Pre‑contract

• 帮助 assist in the preparation of tenders as directed and attend pre contract meetings and reviews as necessary.
• Support the bid and estimating teams and study documents and advise on onerous conditions therein, offering solutions when appropriate and work with the bid team to create an achievable profit plan for each scheme.

Business Unit Management

• Contribute fully to the development and implementation of Company policies and procedures.
• Marketing the business with existing and new clients to assist the business development team.

Project (s) delivery

• Agree target margins for project/s responsible for.
• Perform Commercial Lead function and engage with the project team(s) to ensure consistent delivery of successful projects in order to support the achievement of United Living business objectives and to deliver the target margins.
• Attend site meetings as necessary.
• Actively interrogate all appropriate financial and contractual information ensuring that it accurately forecasts project(s) position and value, costs & margins against the target margin and profit plans.
• Ensure any changes and solutions are agreed with the Head of Depts prior to implementation.
• Support the Heads of Depts to ensure that all significant contract issues and correspondence and all necessary contractual processes have been observed, notices issued, records kept, and documents stored by the team to protect the company's position.
• Provide advice to the management team on contractual, valuation and measurement matters.

Procurement

• Review and when necessary, facilitate subcontract enquiries including formulating the tender list in consultation with the wider management team and subsequent analysis and assessment of subcontract quotations.
• Review and agree project procurement strategy with Head of Depts and ensure implementation.
• Support the Group Procurement Department buying deals by ensuring they are communicated to subcontractors at tender stage and applied at order stage.
• Negotiate sub‑contract packages to deliver the most favourable outcome for the company.
• Check that at all times, the drafting and placement of sub‑contracts are being completed following the Company's authorisation procedure and ensure no subcontractors commence on site without a subcontract order fully completed.

Main Contract

• Ensure that surveyors understand their…