Senior Commercial Manager

Job description / Role

Job Purpose:

The Senior Commercial Manager is responsible for procuring, negotiating, analyzing, preparing, and administering consultancy contracts
Financial monitoring and control of contracts - SLA’s, KPI’s, benchmarking, and reporting.
Work with the wider team departments/sectors in respect of commercial management.

Key Activities:

• Responsible for the management and coordination of The Line policies, processes, procedures (SOP’s), and operating systems.
• Design and articulate through to activation internal and external (Service Partner) Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Work closely with the Director of Operations Support for application of all policies, processes, SOP’s, systems, and measurement tools to support audit, commercial compliance, and international/ local standards
• Implement business plans and strategies for The Line to promote the attainment of project goals
• Assist in the organization and coordination of operations to ensure maximum productivity
• Provide oversight of the work of consultants and provide feedback to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Maintain and foster relationships with stakeholders, service partners, and external agencies
• Gather, analyze and interpret external and internal data
• Assess overall company performance against objectives
• Risk assessments
• Resolving contractual and commercial problems
• Management/mentoring/training of the department junior staff
• Ensure commercial management of The Line contracts aligned with policies is executed and reported to external audit standard
• Ensure adherence to legal rules and guidelines
• Be responsible for the production of monthly and annual reports
• Works collaboratively with the entire Operations team to meet overall goals and objectives.

Requirements

Candidate Requirements:

Must have:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or closely related major, master’s degree In business administration (MBA) from an accredited university and 20+ years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Experience in a similar Commercial Management role
• Must have Pre-contract experience
• Experience of working client-side or for a developer
• Knowledge of SOP’s, KPI’s and Service Level Agreements in multi-service industries
• Commercial management experience including contracts and complex financial analysis for supply contracts
• Strong administrative, reporting and presentation skills

Desirable:

• Internal and external benchmarking
• Middle East experience

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions:

• Banking & Finance
• Human Resources
• Oil & Gas
• Construction
• Architecture & Engineering