SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies; with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.
Our aim is to protect and maximise our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.
Key services include : Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.
Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focussed our digital transformation around platform modernisation and product development and through standardisation and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.
Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.
Acquired by SNC Lavalin in 2017, we also have an extensive depth of geographic exposure across 50 countries and the breadth of 53,000 experts. As one of the largest engineering contractors, we have access to 17,000 staff in the Middle East making us one of the largest multidisciplinary consultancies in the region.
Responsibilities of the Senior Commercial Manager :
The role can be defined as:
With overall responsibility for supporting the Project Leadership Team, in delivering commercial and risk management processes and procedures during the bidding and delivery phases of projects.
The key roles and responsibilities :
- Responsibility for the commercial management to ensure successful delivery of commercial performance projects;
- Compliance of the Service Delivery Process and respond to queries;
- Overall responsibility for supporting Project Directors and Commercial Managers in the delivery of projects to the contractual arrangements and the required commercial outcome (including the contracted profit margin) in accordance with the agreed financial objectives;
- Regular commercial reporting to line management, setting out the reasons for any variances with respect to the operational and financial management of the project and any actions being taken to correct any adverse variances;
- Review monthly financial reports and review any actions in respect of the Risk Register and project contingency;
- Ongoing and active liaison with the Project Director to resolve issues early and safeguard the interests of their region and the Group;
- Ensure that the Atkins Group Commercial Guidance Notes are cascaded and act as first point of contact within their business for any queries and;
- Ensure that the Group's Risk Management procedure is adhered to
Responsibilities will also include the following:
- Ensuring an appropriate commercial management framework is in place;
- Ensuring the business and projects have appropriate commercial resources and expertise;
- Agreeing the criteria for appropriate commercial control and management of the project;
- Assisting and supporting any project's value management requirements to protect F+G’s commercial position;
- Supporting the co-ordination and fostering of team work;
- Supporting the Project Director's performance (where appropriate) of delegated responsibility;
- Assisting the Project Directors in the resolution of project commercial disputes, including the recovery of outstanding fees that are due in relation to contracts;
- Receiving and reviewing detailed reports on the project's performance from the Project Directors;
- Ensuring the Project Director is formally advised in good time of senior management decisions that affect their projects;
- Supporting and establishing, with the Project Director’s, a common approach to major issues that arise;
- Co-ordinate inputs into the monthly plc Major Project Report;
- Ensuring that all professional indemnity insurance claims are notified, a claim manager is appointed and monthly updates (including assessments of liability) are provided to Group Insurance;
- Ensuring that the appropriate resource is allocated to manage the defence and counter-claim of each notified claim and appropriate assistance is provided to Group Legal, Group Commercial and Insurance;
- Ensuring commercial disputes are managed correctly and reported on relevant business systems and;
- Supporting establishing a mechanism to ensure regular dialogue with suppliers, contractors and clients to promote good supply chain management, problem solving, team working and risk sharing.
Behaviours:
A Winning Attitude, you clearly demonstrate and demand from your team a sense of purpose in delivering targets, realising opportunity and set the tone for moving the business forward. You are a self-starter with high levels of motivation.
Client Driven, you place the client at the heart of everything you do, creating a client-focused culture across the region. You challenge your team to improve client’s experience.
Meet the challenge, you create and sustain an environment for learning and the development of talent within the business. You are a role model by never seeing your own development as done.
Aware, you understand local and regional global business priorities and have knowledge of organisational culture. You use this knowledge to formulate and manage regional business plans and drive change across the wider region. You are culturally aware and act with a high level of charisma.
Delivers, you mobilise teams to translate big ideas and vision into reality. You work with senior colleagues to align plans and strategies across business units, staying focused on key performance measures.
Team Player, you build and promote a one team approach and address performance or communication issues swiftly. You confront and resolve organisational conflict and entrenched positions as well as celebrating success.
Engaging, you inspire and persuade, motivate and energise employees – invoking passion and commitment. You encourage and champion honest, two-way feedback up, down and across the business at the most senior levels of the region. You demonstrate strong influencing skills and the ability to interact at all levels.
Adaptable, you are positive and determined. You drive through organisational change by personally communicating the rationale. You understand the wider business environment to anticipate and prepare for the changes that will affect F+G.
Experience:
- Have a proven track record as a Commercial Manager/Director;
- Be able to effectively apply risk assessment and commercial management principles and processes;
- Be able to communicate effectively, negotiate well and influence people, broker relationships with stakeholders within and outside the project, including various Group functions and;
- Be aware of the broader perspective of the companies interests and how it might affect the project.
Rewards and Benefits
We offer an excellent package which includes:
- A competitive salary
- Accommodation allowance;
- Transportation allowance;
- 22 calendar days annual leave;
- Medical and life insurance cover;
- Company gratuity scheme;
- Discretionary bonus scheme;
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Well-Being Programme – 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants
Apply and the Process:
We are in the process of shortlisting the candidates and will advise you on your status soon.
