Senior Commercial Manager

7 months ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Downer Group Full time

The Senior Commercial Manager is a key member of the Transport Commercial team and is responsible for contractual, financial and risk management within the business.

**Why you will enjoy working here | Ko te take ka parekareka e koe ki te mahi ki kōnei**

Downer is committed to delivering excellence by ensuring our people have the environment and the means to be successful. We offer:

- Competitive Salary
- Health care and Wellbeing benefits
- Flexible working
- Deals & Discounts from local and national retailers
- Whanau Scholarships Development programmes and ongoing career opportunities across NZ & Australia

**The Opportunity **| **Te **kōwhiringa**

The role, along with the wider team will work seamlessly across the business implementing and facilitating business improvement initiatives. It will identify best practice and develop standardised practices that will become common across the Transport and Infrastructure Division with a strong focus on sustainable business improvement.

**The key objectives of the role are to ensure**:

- Sound commercial, financial, contractual and business practices are applied to all Transport Projects within the Region, including the Pacific, are consistent with the Downer Standard.
- Support management to deliver profitable operations.
- Contribute to the development and growth of the business and implementation of strategy.
- Maximisation of sustained business profitability.
- Ensure stakeholders’ relationships are enhanced and effective.
- Risks and opportunities are understood and managed.
- The continuing professional development of our quantity surveyors and other commercial resources.
- Commercial acumen is embedded and improved within the businesses.

**The role is responsible for**:

- Providing commercial, contractual and risk management expertise to improve business performance.
- Ensuring sound financial and business practices are applied to all Operations consistent with the Downer Standard.
- Promoting consistency and accuracy with regards to forecasting, cash-flow and predictability of project outcomes.

**The following outcomes will be achieved**:

- Sustainable business profitability.
- Implementation of business strategies.
- Increased commercial, contractual and risk awareness within the business.
- Ensuring customer and stakeholder relationships are professional and proactively managed so they are enhanced and effective.
- Increased predictability on project financial outcomes.
- Downer’s contractual entitlement is maximised whilst minimising costs.

**Important Skills | Nga pūkenga matua**
- Hold a relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent, e.g. BSc, RICS, NZCQS, law or equivalent.
- Have 10 years plus experience in a Commercial Manager role, preferably with contractors predominantly operating within the Transport sector.
- It is essential to have experience of providing management support in the construction or infrastructure sectors.
- Experience of claims preparation, dispute avoidance and/or resolution.
- Excellent people leadership skills including a total commitment to creating a Zero Harm workplace.
- Ability to negotiate effectively.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
- Financial and commercial acumen.
- A top performer
- able to work under pressure in a fully integrated team environment.
- A strong customer focus including the ability to identify project solutions that add customer value and deliver return straight to the bottom line.
- High analytical skills and competency with Excel and Risk management Software.

**Leadership Competencies**:

- Managing vision and purpose:creates and communicates a compelling and inspired vision or a sense or core purpose.
- Customer driven: both internally and externally dedicated to meeting their expectations and requirements.
- Have the ability to effectively influence and lead non direct reports.
- Applied intelligence: intellectual horsepower.
- Emotional intelligence: intrinsic self-knowledge and awareness.
- Ability to build teams: drives for results through others.We are committed to a safe working environment for everyone - all successful applicants will be required to undertake a pre-employment drug test, medical and a Ministry of Justice check prior to starting employment. If you need support with this requirement, please talk to our team.

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