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Commercial Manager, Delivery

Global Switch · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Global Switch

Global Switch is a leading data centre operator, delivering sustainable, resilient, and secure digital infrastructure worldwide.

About the role

As Commercial Manager, Delivery, you must continually and critically monitor the procurement and commercial aspects of their projects and determine strategies and actions to mitigate commercial risk and protect profit margins. Furthermore, working collaboratively with the project teams, the Commercial Manager is responsible for providing input in finding opportunities through value engineering, programme logic and procurement decisions amongst other things, to enhance project profitability.

What they're looking for

  • Advanced and up-to-date knowledge of Quantity Surveying principles, including cost planning, value engineering and commercial management for complex construction and infrastructure projects
  • Strong understanding of contract law, procurement frameworks, and industry regulations, including recent developments relevant to the sector
  • Proven ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with clients, consultants, and contractors
  • Expertise in identifying process inefficiencies and implementing best-practice solutions, leveraging benchmarking, lessons learned, and industry standards
  • Exceptional accuracy in cost analysis, contract review, and compliance checks ensuring all commercial outputs are precise and reliable
  • Demonstrated ability to take full responsibility for commercial deliverables and outcomes. Ensuring tasks are completed correctly and on time
More about this role

As Commercial Manager, Delivery, you must continually and critically monitor the procurement and commercial aspects of their projects and determine strategies and actions to mitigate commercial risk and protect profit margins. Furthermore, working collaboratively with the project teams, the Commercial Manager is responsible for providing input in finding opportunities through value engineering, programme logic and procurement decisions amongst other things, to enhance project profitability.

Working within projects, the Commercial Manager is responsible for liaising with Project Leads to ascertain information and provide accurate and timely submission of commercial information to enable the project monthly reports, to meet finance deadlines. The Commercial Manager will be responsible for managing cash flow and cost to complete forecasting for all projects.

Lead all commercial and contractual aspects throughout the tendering process, ensuring robust risk assessment, clear communication of requirements, and alignment with organisational objectives.

Conduct comprehensive risk assessments, pricing both technical and commercial risks, and evaluating contractual exposures to ensure...

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