Commercial Manager

Overview

Responsibilities

• will include:
• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Managing, leading and co-ordinating a team of cost, contracts and commercial managers within a live project environment
• Analysing project data efficiently
• Setting up and managing workshops to achieve the required cost savings
• Providing ad-hoc high-level strategic proposals as required
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for successful project completion; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to maintain strong working relationships

Requirements

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
• Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• A minimum of 10-12 years’ technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Must be fluent in Arabic and English
• Experience of working in variety of sectors and projects in the Middle East region
• Experience of providing advice and administering on contractual matters
• Experience of managing and leading commercial and contracts management teams within a live project environment
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
• Our corporate values
• At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
• That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business.
• Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is.
• Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.
• Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments.
• We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people.
• Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve.
• That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.
• With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company.
• Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.
• This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.