Commercial Manager

Mission

Pre-Contract Cost Management

• Lead preparation, review, and quality assurance of Bills of Quantities.
• Prepare order of cost estimates, elemental cost plans, detailed construction estimates, and first-principles rate build-ups.
• Review quantities, measurements, and pricing documentation, and undertake quantity take-offs from design documents.
• Prepare benchmark cost analyses and value engineering studies while keeping designs within approved budgets.

Procurement and Tendering

• Prepare commercial sections of tender documents, procurement cost estimates, and tender pricing documentation.
• Review and evaluate tender submissions and prepare commercial evaluation reports and recommendations.
• Advise on procurement strategy, contract packaging, commercial risk allocation, and procurement-phase risk management.

Post-Contract Administration

• Administer FIDIC Red Book and Yellow Book commercial provisions.
• Assess payment applications, engineer's instructions, variations, new rates, contractor claims, extensions of time, and daywork records.
• Monitor contract price, approved budget, forecast final cost, cash flow, commercial risks, and variations.
• Lead commercial negotiations, final account settlement, and support commercial dispute resolution.

Leadership and Governance

• Manage and supervise the project commercial and quantity surveying team.
• Establish commercial procedures, review deliverables, monitor budgets and expenditure, and prepare dashboards and key performance indicators.
• Advise the Project Director and manage interfaces across design, procurement, construction, project controls, finance, and commercial disciplines.
• Promote appropriate use of digital commercial systems, cost databases, BIM quantity extraction, ERP platforms, dashboards, and approved AI-assisted tools.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Economics, or an equivalent discipline.
• MRICS membership.
• Minimum 15 years of post-graduation experience in quantity surveying or commercial management.
• Minimum three years of major airport project experience.
• Experience on major building and infrastructure projects valued above USD 500 million.
• Extensive FIDIC Red Book and Yellow Book contract administration experience.

Technical and Personal Competencies

• Strong knowledge of international measurement methods, quantity surveying practice, and first-principles estimating.
• Advanced capability in cost planning, cost control, forecasting, commercial reporting, and value engineering.
• Strong contractual, claims assessment, negotiation, and dispute avoidance capabilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant cost management, project controls, ERP, reporting, and digital quantity take-off tools.
• Strong leadership, team management, stakeholder management, and commercial judgement.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.