Commercial Manager

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean-ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Commercial Manager to join our award-winning team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This critical role will be responsible for maintaining communication with clients' PM team as well as their procurement department.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Reviewing and ensuring the consistency, accuracy, traceability and completeness of reports, valuations, measurements, progress claims, and ensuring BOQs comply with the contracts requirement;
• Ensuring agreed/approved procedures have been adhered to and implemented in compliance with the clients' policies.
• Preparing and managing the clients' financial reporting processes and systems.
• Assessing the monthly incurred value, validating vendors' (contractor/consultant) work estimates, and ensuring monthly interim payment for its accuracy, consistency, and continuity of cost data.
• Executing the claims management and administration - reviewing, investigating, identifying, notifying, handling and tracking causes, checking validity, assessing time and cost impacts, negotiating and making recommendations to the client.
• Initiating the contract change management and administration - change notices, management of change register, change log and database; overseeing VOs, correctness, accuracy, traceability and per the scope defined in the contract accordingly rejecting/recommending for the issuance of VO.
• Managing the contract management and administration - supervision, review, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting the performance against contract, issuing notices.
• Assisting the project teams in the assembly, review, and routing of contractual documents.
• Participating in regular project team meetings to provide status, discuss issues, and provide support for any situation that requires variation orders, payment authorizations, and the processing of invoices.

Qualifications

• To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envisage that you will bring a minimum of 15 years' experience, with high-rise experience preferred from a similar role within a PMC, partnered with a Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying or Engineering.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.