Commercial Advisor

Our vision is to be the best and most trusted project specialists in Aotearoa. We’ve been around for over 3 decades and our Advisory service is an integral part of how we deliver. If you’re wanting a great place to grow your career, with colleagues you’ll want to hang out with, a role in our high performing team could be what you’re looking for.

As part of our Advisory team, you’ll get involved in a wide range of work that supports our clients, providing strategic and commercial support in complex and dynamic environments. Whether that’s helping to shape the direction of a proposed project, working on a business case, supporting the procurement phase of a project or deep diving to assess the options a client may have, there are a wide range of scenarios where you can leverage your expertise to remove roadblocks and provide solutions. Usually, our work falls within the fields of construction, property, procurement and governance.

We’re genuinely recognised as a trusted advisor to our clients, and through your work you’ll add real value. With our varied portfolio of work, we can tailor the role to suit your strengths and interests.

You really do We want you to enjoy your working day. It’s a job with lots of scope where you’ll be working collaboratively and collectively. We put a big emphasis on acknowledgement shout outs each month, celebrating the good things you and your workmates are doing. We know you still want to learn, and we encourage that with networking, upskilling and memberships.

You’ll get a great salary package but there’s more to a rewarding job than that. The big things include a longer-term chance at becoming one of our employee shareholders, our support of flexible working, and the way we support you to train and improve your professional skills. There are lots of fun social events with your colleagues, and company health and well-being initiatives. We give you access and time to use our bespoke Growing Stronger Learning Portal to grow personally as well as professionally.

**The Role**

As a Commercial Advisor at TBIG you’ll work with a variety of Client organisations, engaging with the Client to understand their needs, challenge their thinking, and develop and implement a plan to provide them with the assistance they need.

You’ll be:

- Able to develop and implement commercial and delivery strategies and to look for innovative solutions when necessary.
- Able to engage independently with clients from the outset, understand their needs and develop a plan to provide them with the assistance they need.
- Great at fostering relationships with clients. Be a trusted advisor and deliver sound commercial outcomes.
- At times, delivering the ‘hard messages’ to ensure a project stays on track and remains compliant.
- Accurate and well versed in assessing timelines and workloads and finding a balance, able to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

**Here’s what we need from you**:

- A professional and can-do attitude to helping support our clients.
- A knack for creating enthusiasm within the project environment. Getting buy in and always building trust.
- An affinity for working collaboratively and collectively with client teams, working towards the same goals and reminding people of those goals when the project gets challenging.
- A desire to look for solutions, with the ability to weigh up the options and pull together a concise and persuasive business case or report.
- Experience at the front end of the Project lifecycle, working with business cases, procurement and feasibility.
- Relevant qualifications, which could include business/commerce or property related disciplines such as Build Science, Construction PM, Engineering or Property.

**You will have googled us by now**:
And here’s what you will have foundThe Building Intelligence Group (TBIG) is right across Aotearoa and growing, plus we are 100% New Zealand owned by over a quarter of our 130+ people. Having worked alongside private, Government and Local Government clients for well over three decades, our longevity is due to our culture of continuous improvement. We want to support you to grow and give back to our industry so that together we can lead the creation of great places for living and working in New Zealand.

In short, you’ll get meaningful and interesting work, you’ll feel valued and backed, and the doors are wide open to working your way into a more senior role.

**Go on - if you’ve read this far and you’re excited, take the next steps