Commercial Manager - Tier 2 Contractor

• Established, national market leading Tier 2 Contractor
• Extensive pipeline in projects across Infrastructure, Industrial, Buildings, Resources, Engineering & Defence sectors
• Excellent career progression and fantastic culture

Great opportunity to work with an established Contractor experiencing national growth and looking for a strong Commercial Manager ideally with prior experience to take on this newly created role. 

A market leading Tier 2 contractor with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects is now seeking a Commercial Manager to join their growing business in Perth.
  
Reporting to the Commercial Director, you will be responsible for leading the commercial function across projects and provide understanding to the project teams while managing a team of 3 to 4 Contracts Managers who will in turn have Contract Administrators under them.
  
The role will be providing contractual and commercial advice, dealing with disputes, adjudication, trouble shooting on projects, interrogating commercial contracts, understanding project profitability and regional corporate overheads etc. The role is more of a senior leadership role than a project delivery role and will be mentoring people and being an escalation point for issues as well as working closely with other members of the senior leadership team.
  
The Commercial Manager will probably run about $300m+ of projects in the region.
  
Candidates can come from a variety of backgrounds including commercial new builds, engineering, remedial, civil engineering, head contracting, subcontracting etc. and having excellent communication skills and a passion for the industry.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Commercial review of contracts, MSA’s and Agreements
• Manage all direct reports
• Recruitment of team members
• Monthly reporting
• Monitor and improve contracts administration process
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure commercial requirements are reached
• Ensure compliance with management systems
• Assist Contracts Managers in the mentoring of their teams of Contracts Administrators

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Contracts Management, Engineering, Construction Management or similar
• Minimum 8 to 15 years+ experience in a similar role
• Understanding of project administration and project controls
• Knowledge of risks and limitations across legal agreements and requirements
• Ability to work part of a team as well as autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Superior analytical skillset and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite with strong Excel knowledge

  
This is a permanent full-time position providing a great opportunity to work with a successful and growing organisation who offer challenging work and the potential for career progression.

If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, click “Apply” to submit your resume or contact Jacob Montague-Day via email on jacob.montague-day@amida-recruit.com.au or 0406 849 or Sam Barnes on sam.barnes@amida-recruit.com.au or 0429 306 688 for further information.