Role Objectives
* Supporting the Commercial Team with necessary inter-action with the Regional Project Managers, Project Directors and Accountant Leads as these schemes move towards delivery, ensuring cost, cash flow and budgets are aligned within the broader business planning and agreed Option or Purchase Agreements, Licences and Contracts.
* The Associate Commercial Manger working alongside the Commercial Director plays a key role in linking together and working across project management, accountancy and financial reporting and development management personnel within the teams, supporting and directing the significant investment and commitment Urban&Civic is making across its projects.
Role Responsibilities
Pre Construction
* Support the pre-acquisition and pre-development, when requested, with activities including commercial due diligence, cost planning, feasibility estimating and risk assessment.
* When requested inputting into commercial aspects of bids and contributing towards commercial aspects of programming and phasing.
* Where the bid is successful create a link between the pre-planning and pre-construction work and the delivery work on site and assisting in the transition of commercial knowledge between the bid/option process and the development/project management teams.
* Assist in bid preparation.
Delivery
* Support the Commercial Director in ensuring the U&C procurement procedures and protocols are adhered to and reviewed / updated regularly.
* Support the Commercial Director ensuring consistent and best practice quantity surveying is implemented across U&C projects including cost control, cashflows, change management.
* Proactively advise on likely inflationary market pressures affecting cost and value.
* Implement, review and manage internal procedures and policies.
* Assist in the introduction and embedment of relevant procedures and protocols throughout all work streams.
* Provide Advice, contractual, procedural, strategic, estimating and cost planning, cash flow, design, procurement, insurance/bond, accounts, programming, etc to all work being undertaken.
* Support the Commercial Director in developing and maintain strategic relationship-building with key contractors, leadership of the external and internal teams and being a constructive team player with colleagues working across development of the strategic land portfolio are essential functions of the role.
Procurement
* Support the procurement of workstream packages and contractor selection.
* Support, or have oversight on, Contractor negotiations when single sourced or procured under current framework rates.
* Recommend procurement routes for contractors and consultants, including scope and form of appointments
* Assist on the coordination of the cost and procurement due diligence aspects of developments, driving a policy of “design to budget” rather than “value engineering”.
* Review Appointments, recognising skills gaps, design responsibility matrices, identifying risks to business.
* Support the Commercial Director in ensuring the U&C procurement procedures and protocols are adhered to and reviewed / updated regularly.
Procurement
* Support the procurement of workstream packages and contractor selection.
* Support, or have oversight on, Contractor negotiations when single sourced or procured under current framework rates.
Feasibility Estimating and Cost Planning
* Produce, or assist on production of, costs plans, feasibility estimates, budgets.
* Support on the development and management of cost plans, both across the wider sites and where required on specialist works.
Financial Management and Reporting
* Internal Business Development and Reporting – work with team members to provide necessary business plan reports, progress reports, Strategic Development Committee and Board Reports.
* Assist with maintaining and managing internal Procurement Tracker with regular reporting to Group DoPM.
* Assist with maintaining and managing U&C Bond Trackers, Live and Forecast with regular reporting to Group DoPM.
Contract Documents
* Advise where applicable on the production of standardised frameworks and legal agreements.
* Ability to negotiate forms of contract and method of procurement and awareness of the importance of insurance, terms of appointment, consistency of documents, warranties, PCG and bonds, frameworks, interface with property contracts and TPA’s, especially in relation to land contract agreements.
Benchmarking / Data Capture
* Assist on the collation and presentation of benchmark cost data across U&C projects.
* Assist on benchmarking of costs in relation to carbon budgets.
* Assist on the production and maintenance of sustainable materials schedules and associated costs, mandatory and preference.
Note: there may be a requirement from time to time to undertake other duties and perform other roles