Commercial Manager

Job description / Role

The organisation are looking for a numerically astute Commercial Manager to assist senior management in making critical business decisions by analysing and presenting key financial data that will enable them to bid competitively. You will be responsible for developing, preparing, and consolidating detailed, comprehensive, and precise costs of potential projects using financial modelling techniques to enable the bid team to submit competitive bids/ proposals.

An excellent Commercial Manager must have an exceptional mathematical mind combined with a strong business orientation. The goal is to contribute to the decision-making process of management that will ensure business growth and long-term success.

Client Details

Their services extend to provide full real-life support services, skilled and unskilled manpower supply, as well as integrated facilities management, utilities and environmental services.

They are active in a wide range of project environments, including some of the world's most challenging regions. We provide catering, camp management, construction and logistics and supply chain services.

Description

* Review tender documents and in conjunction with bid teams/ leads, subsequently, formulate a comprehensive costing sheet highlighting all the projected costs of potential projects in order to identify the actual costings.
* Liaise with various departments to ensure the costing includes entire elements such as equipment, materials, labour, food and energy consumptions, personal wastage, salary, insurance, tax & legislative implications, and all relevant project costs in order to project complete, precise, and detailed costings of projects.
* Validate all costings with relevant departments prior to submission to further ensure the accuracy of projected costings.
* Lead meetings and discussions about the numbers and analysis performed.
* Upon project award, filter out costings spreadsheet to reflect agreed project requirements and send to Operations and Finance departments enabling them to prepare and source accordingly as per the project cost structure.
* Conduct a thorough financial analysis with explanations to highlight expenditures, cash flows, break-even, profitability, etc. to enable informed decisions by the relevant project management team.
* Consolidate all monthly costing reports received by business units, analyse information to identify actual costings vs. projected costings.
* Conduct in-house training for MS Excel intermediate and advanced level if needed.
* Collaborating with other teams, conducting site visits if necessary, and conducting relevant research to ensure all cost drivers are captured into cost models to deliver competitive and comprehensive bid/ tender pricing.
* Help management make important decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. bid or no bid decisions; purchase or lease decisions, etc.)

Job Offer

* Annual flight allowance
* Visa (self)
* Medical (self)
* Gym membership
* Group life insurance
* Annual bonus
* Competitive salary

Requirements

* Minimum of 15 years relevant work experience in cost estimating for bids/ tenders
* Bachelor's degree in Business/ Accounting or Financial Management is preferred
* CMA or ACCA certified is preferred
* MS Office including Advanced Level MS Excel
* Oracle knowledge an advantage
* Ability to communicate well across all levels in the organisation
* Excellent English communication skills
* Ability to multi-task, organise, and prioritise multiple ongoing projects.
* Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
* Excellent presentation skills
* Experience in Facilities Management or Construction Services is an advantage

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.