The Role
This role is for an innovative professional at director level with significant major project and programme commercial experience. This role will work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of the full project and programme lifecycle in the construction industry and their procurement / commercial acumen to solve complex problems.
You will be responsible for helping to grow, deliver and lead our MPA business, working with our leadership team, client organisations and other KPMG teams to develop our offerings and value propositions. You will be providing advice to a broad range of clients on many different matters, helping them to achieve successful outcomes through planning and implementing innovative and robust procurement and commercial interventions.
The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham, and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.
The role will also include the end to end lifecycle of managing client engagements, using KPMG systems, for which comprehensive training is provided):
1. Management of project teams to deliver client engagements
2. Management of quality & risk on engagements to meet KPMG standards
3. Financial management of engagements including budgeting, reporting, and invoicing processes
4. Performance management and mentoring of junior employees
5. The role can have a material impact on the success of the ambitious MPA growth strategy
6. The role will be client facing and have direct impact on the reputation and perception of KPMG
The Person
This senior leadership role is ideally suited to those with significant post-qualification experience in procurement and commercial management / quantity surveying. This experience will have been gained on very high-value, complex major projects and programmes. The role requires experience with the following attributes:
7. An excellent understanding of commercial activity and procurement in construction and project contexts, across the whole lifecycle of an asset
8. Experience in developing and implementing procurement and commercial strategies
9. Familiarity with industry-standard contract forms such as the NEC suite, FIDIC, JCT and PPC2000 and a working understanding of contract law
10. Demonstrably effective leadership capability
11. A good understanding of issues which impact project performance
12. An ability to assess new situations and data quickly to provide a basis for developing an understanding of causal factors
13. Ability to set out a clear approach to tackling a new challenge in the most efficient manner
14. Clear, concise, fact-based reporting
15. A relevant professional qualification, such as MCIPS or MRICS
In addition to the above, experience in some of the following areas would also be of benefit to the candidate in the environment that we work in:
16. Project / programme management
17. Project / programme controls
18. Earned value management
19. Cost management, estimating and benchmarking
20. Risk management
21. Claims, disputes, and dispute avoidance
22. Governance and control of projects
In addition to the technical requirements of the role we also expect the right candidate to:
23. Be capable of working alone or within a team, including quickly building rapport and delivering with new teams
24. Provide clear and concise advice to clients and manage client relationships
25. Maintain your requirements for continuing professional development
26. Play a key role in business development and team strategy development/implementation