Commercial Manager

Currie & Brown is looking to recruit a Commercial Manager to lead a major Data Centre project in Abu Dhabi.

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Managing, leading and coordinating a team of cost, contracts, and commercial managers within a live project environment
• Analyzing 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
• Prior technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
• Pre and post-contract experience including procurement
• Experience in working in a variety of Data Centre sectors and projects in the Middle East region.
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible
• Experienced in leading an onsite commercial team