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Job description / Role
An excellent opportunity has arisen to work on one of our prestigious projects in Dubai.
Reporting to the Project Director your role will be as follows:
Leadership: strong commercial leadership qualities are essential to this Senior Commercial role
Direct the management of the commercial activities and their integration on major projects and programmes to deliver commercial control
Direct the preparation of detailed analysis of variances and explanations, and understanding of concept of, and ability to calculate earned value.
Lead complex contract negotiations, including the formulation of negotiation parameters, analysis and interpretation of commercial data and demonstration of flexibility whilst achieving negotiation objectives.
Management of claims, mitigation and advising on defence of claims, including analysis of the various parties positions.
Identify and assesses potential risks to commercial agreements and supplier performance.
Development of commercial strategies which can be approved by the LUL Executive.
Supporting and directing where appropriate risk and value management activities.
Manages appointment and development of staff
Supervision of a commercial team of 10 - 15 people
Requirements
Experience in Hotel projects is ideal but not essential
Experience in working on a high profile project is essential, and working on a large scale project.
Strong negotiation skills, with an understanding of different negotiation strategies and techniques
Interpretation of market information and deploy it effectively in estimating, cost planning and strategy development.
Producing estimates and cost plans for major schemes appropriate for all design stages, understanding the limitations of each and applicable levels of optimisation bias, risk and contingency and apply cost checks to emerging designs.
Planning and delivering cost management to meet periodic reporting cycles and ability to maintain deliverables within required timescales.
Applicable commercial regulations and legislation
Risk and value management and their application in developing strategies, estimates and cost plans
Managing complex customer and supplier relationships and expectations in a multi-million pound projects environment.
In depth understanding of and how they inter relate to commercial activities:
Project management including Programme and Project Management (PPM) methods and practices to manage and resolve threats to delivery.
Project controls
Signalling and engineering technology
General Skills:
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong people management skills.
Well developed listening skills, tact and diplomacy, and the ability to manage stakeholders.
Excellent numeracy and data analysis skills
Stakeholder and supplier relationship management skills
About the Company
ARCADIS is the leading global natural and built asset design & consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. ARCADIS differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe. We are 28,000 people that generate more than 3 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world.