Senior Contractual/Commercial Consultant

Overview

Education

• Hold a degree relevant to the construction industry. Retain membership of a relevant professional institution MICE, RICS etc.
• Be working towards or hold additional relevant qualifications arbitration, adjudicator, expert witness.

Experience

• 10 to 15 years plus experience within the construction industry.
• Must have held senior posts within organisations and been at the front line of construction projects.
• Hold particular expertise or specialism within the construction sector oil, gas, infrastructure, building etc.
• Hold particular technical expertise cost specialist, contract specialist etc.
• Be able to focus on key evidence and separate core issues from the general noise of contractual communication.
• Be able to develop entitlements quickly from the evidence on the ground.
• Be able to tell the story supported by the evidence and grasp the bigger picture.

Writing Skills

• Possess excellent writing and grammar skills and be highly proficient in authoring technical documents.
• Be able to set strategy and develop structures for demonstrating entitlements.

People

• Be good with people and operate professionally in client facing roles.
• Possess excellent presentational skills and lead or chair meetings and discussions.

Claims Experience

• Possess first-hand experience with the development of construction claims.
• Participated in the development of claims strategies, negotiation and final settlement.
• Possess the ability to develop strategies for substantiating and calculating recoverable costs.

Presentation Skills

• Lead presentations to clients.
• Possess excellent verbal communication skills and be able to chair meetings, discussions and workshops.

It Skills

• Generate high quality documentation utilising the technical and functional capabilities of software such as Word and Excel to deliver documents fully formatted and checked ready for peer review or presentation.

Planning Skills

• Be fully conversant with the appropriate deployment and use of delay analysis methodologies.

Time Management

• Be highly proficient in managing personal and project time according to differing and flexible schedules.
• Manage the timeframes of team s delivery against programmes and budgets.

Teamwork

• Be a strong team player leading and supporting teams where required.

Company Procedures

• Comply with company procedures, particularly compliance with weekly updates to corporate cloud storage systems.

Professional Development

• Have an active interest in local institution activities and be committed to on-going personal development.