Associate Director

Associate Director focuses on lead into running the commercial department.

What the role involves

• Lead into running the Commercial Department.
• Commercial Managment (Projects & Commercial) will provide in house Quantity Surveying service on all infrastructure projects.
• Reporting to the Programme Delivery Director, the Associate Director - Cost.
• Budget forecasting, cost plan management, consultant and contractor selection, preliminaries drafting, tendering, contractor negotiation, valuations, variation control, cost report.
• Additionally, to support the financial management functions normally carried out in an end operator construction business including internal Purchase Order reconciliation and cash.
• Able to provide all the quantity surveying input necessary to run construction contracts of £10m-30m, where external quantity surveying firms are not appointed.

Skills and requirements

• Commercial Managment with extensive M&E experience within Critical infrastructure environments for an expanding 'End Client' Datacentre organisation based in London.
• More than 5 years’ experience in running construction projects, ideally within the data centre industry or those with a very complex services content.
• Extensive experience in an environment where ‘front end’ activities such as project estimating and cost planning are routinely carried out.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a critical supply chain.

Confirmed role details

• Completed contract bundles using the appropriate legal advice.
• Representation at all pre-contract meetings, providing advice or assistance to all other professionals.
• Contract variations that are agreed by all stakeholders, formally instructed and managed & recorded via a formal contract framework.

Additional role context

• A sound track record in risk management.