Senior Commercial Manager MEP

Job description

About ISG
ISG is a dynamic global construction services company.
We have had a hand in some of the world's most impactful and recognisable places, but our legacy is about far more than buildings. Across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we deliver places where people and businesses make memories, forge new experiences, and reach their goals.
In short, we deliver the places that enable people and businesses to thrive.

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager MEP

Reports To: Commercial Lead

Business Unit: Hyperscale

Location: Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees

Why ISG
Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are committed to fostering a culture that inspires, supports and encourages our people to build something special. Our success as a business relies on our people who work across our sites, operational teams and enabling departments, and through their hard work, commitment and talent, play their role in ISG achieving our vision to deliver places for people and businesses to thrive.

Role Purpose

To deliver a quality service and product to our clients in line with the project goals by working with the project team and applying ISG culture systems and procedures.

• Take lead financial role on key projects delivering to agreed targeted profit margins
  
• To take responsibility for the regular review of financial performance of projects within the division in order to improve financial certainty and maximise commercial success
  
• To ensure best practice and continuous improvement in divisional financial processes on
  
• To provide high quality management information to divisional financial director and divisional commercial manager.
  

Key Accountabilities

Accurate and timely project financial management:

• Conduct start-up meetings with the financial team within first week of contract award for allocated projects
  
• Ensure project team approach is clearly aligned with ISG's expectations for the specific project
  
• Monitor financial resources on allocated projects to DCM, ensuring key risks are clearly identified and brought to the attention of Project Director/ Commercial Lead.
  

Completion of all identified actions to deadlines Proactive project and technical support:

• Hold regular financial review for allocated projects, held on project site, with project financial team to address financial performance, identify potential issues or problems and collaborate to deliver solutions
  
• Provide accurate and timely feedback and guidance to the project financial teams on allocated projects
  
• Ownership for implementing solutions and closing issues where appropriate in support of the project financial team
  
• Timely transfer of skills and experience to the project financial teams on allocated projects to ensure they deliver to the required targeted margins
  
• Attend monthly financial meetings and contribute as required by PD/ CL
  

Effective people management:

• Provide clear, appropriate and timely feedback on performance, attitude and behaviour to project financial individual team members on allocated projects.
  
• Develop and implement a mechanism for allocated project financials to share, with project construction team's continuity of approach and lessons
  
• Ensure that the outcomes of sharing approach and lessons learnt are shared with relevant colleagues, when appropriate
  
• Act promptly and positively to address performance or behaviour issues when they arise, utilizing the support of HR.
  

Skills & Experience

• Experience in establishing, managing and leading a large project team and/or multiple smaller project
  
• Experience of most forms of relationships with clients/consultants and suppliers which will raise profile of the division and lead to new
  
• Experience in claims resolution both with the Employer and Trade
  
• Experience of delivering MEP Projects and sound technical knowledge of the same
  
• Evidence of strong interpersonal and people management skills are essential
  
• Demonstrably commercially focused with a proven track record of delivering high quality results whilst maintaining positive relationships in difficult financial environments
  
• Allocation of risk and maximisation of profit in single stage fixed price procurement routes
  
• Ability to multitask
  
• Ability to understand the wider picture whilst devoting attention to detail
  

Qualifications

• Demonstrate experience of undertaking senior commercial roles on major projects, understanding of an ability to administer different contract forms which need to include one of the management forms, 2 stage, single stage and Design & Build.
  
• Likely to be either MCIOB or RICS.
  
• Track record in leading and developing teams
  

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What's in it for you?

• Ongoing career development and accredited learning
  
• Annual recognition and values awards
  
• Global employee assistance program
  
• Pension scheme
  
• Life assurance
  
• Private healthcare including private GP service and mental health pathways
  
• As part of our wellbeing offering, ISG offers a monthly wellbeing allowance
  
• Cycle to work scheme
  
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
  
• Industry-leading family friendly policies (39 weeks maternity leave and 8 weeks paternity at full pay)
  
• Volunteer day
  
• Discounts such as cinema to ensure you're still loving ISG even when you leave the office
  
• Most Friday's are a 4 pm finish providing work is completed for the week
  
• Your work-life balance really matters to us, so in addition to your holiday allowance we have a You Day to allow you to take an extra day off to celebrate a special event, spend time with your family or just do something that will make your life easier or more enjoyable
  
• Thriving networks including I-NOW (Women's Network), Race and Faith, LGBTQIA+, Armed Forced Covenant and the menopause working group, everyone's invited
  

If you'd like to speak to the Talent Acquisition team, please contact [email protected] below for more details.