Senior Commercial Manager
Lands Improvement Holdings
Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months
• Project lead on new residential & commercial development of 5, 150 homes on a 630-acre site reporting to Executive on progress of infrastructure works. Total anticipated costs for the project - £170m
• Manage a team of QS consultants, engineers, and site managers
• Commercial lead for all tenders and post contract management of all construction contracts; heavy civils; roads, drainage, utilities and landscaping & buildings under NEC4 Option A and FIDIC yellow book contracts
• Lead for construction of 10, 000 sq foot building comprising of café, community hall, shops, and offices
• Undertakes estimates for cost plans and value engineering exercises
• Lead monthly cost reporting to Executive on expenditure against Cost Plans and budget
• Project lead for all liaison with Statutory Bodies i.e. local authority, utilities providers, public bodies
• Responsible for all approval papers for construction expenditure to Executive management team
• Lead for all claims and formal dispute resolution issues on the project including Extension of Time (EoT) claims and concurrent delay assessments
• Lead for an Adjudication case under TeCSA rules
Led a team with 12 direct reports, managing 10 contracts under NEC3 contracts
•Leading the procurement/delivery strategy for civil works contracts under OJEU regulations; obtaining buy-in from all relevant departments and senior leaders due to complexity & high £ value of the contracts
•Develop commercial strategy i.e., developed incentive KPIs with supply chain, identifying appropriate suite for contracts for different works, benchmarking costs against similar infrastructure projects
•Drafting cost estimates for cost plans and value engineering initiatives
•Producing monthly financial reports to Executive management team to update on budget and cash flow performance
•Led all dispute resolution such as claim assessments of entitlement under the contract including an adjudication case
Seconded to Laing O'Rourke 811A Project
High Speed Two (HS2) Rail Project:
• Managing four contracts simultaneously under NEC3 option B & E
• Managing all cost control reporting to senior management including actuals, forecasts, risk allowances, contingencies
• Managing all changes to the contractual correspondence via issuing instructions, assessing compensation events and reviewing early warning notices
• Led on a formal dispute resolution process under NEC3 Option B on Ground Investigation works
Imouraren Project, Niger (Mining Project - managing infrastructure works)
Procurement & Contracts Lead
•Managing a team of 6 staff (mix of procurement and contracts staff). I also led on recruitment for all commercial staff and also managed their mobilisation onto site, which was crucial as the project was in a remote location.
•Led the procurement process under FIDIC contracts for two major packages: roads, drainage and office buildings
•Produced and presented the monthly CVRs to management on monthly basis
•Lead Contracts Administrator for the building contract package. This role entailed drafting variations to the unit price contract, managing suspension of works under the contract and undertaking quantity takeoffs
•Sourcing subcontractors, reviewing monthly invoice payments, produce monthly cost reports and manage all contractual correspondence with client and subcontractors
•Produced and agreed an EoT claim for the Main Contractor. This included detailed back up outlining contractual entitlement for both time and cost
New Doha Airport Project, Doha, State of Qatar (Airport Project
Involved in the bid job for the Panama Canal Project worth $5B
•Completed PQQ documentation back to the client
•I sourced potential subcontractors for the bid, assessing both their financial and technical capability
•Compiling all commercial information required via the ITT
(12 Month Industrial Placement)
•Undertaking Deed of variations to existing contracts, which involved re-drafting of contractual clauses
•Procurement of equipment for military helicopters. This involved undertaking Buyer duties but also running ITT processes to source suppliers
MCIArb) Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS
International Dispute Resolution - Arbitration (focus on FIDIC contracts)