Commercial Manager

Mascot, NSW, AU, 2020**About John Holland**:
At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We’ve always known at its heart infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work.
That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.
Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

John Holland is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to join the Next Rail team, based in Mascot.

**Responsibilities of the role include**:

- Ensure project managers, contract administrators and all relevant project staff understand and comply with commercial requirements.
- Attend contract acceptance and contract review meetings as necessary to ensure commercial and contract administration issues comply with contract requirements, policies and procedures.
- Manage commercial issues, major and minor contract disputes when delegated by senior management.
- Assist contract administrators and project managers as needed in commercial matters.
- Review and approve acceptance or proposed major / high risk subcontracts and any other subcontracts as instructed by senior management.
- Lead identification and qualification of Head Contract scope changes and all subsequent negotiations with the client.
- Negotiate contract terms and conditions with customer/ subcontractors as authorised by senior management in liaison with project management, as per policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Undertake post-contract completion reviews, analyse results. Undertake corrective actions.
- Ensure successful stakeholder and people management.
- Financial management. Ensure strong contract, commercial and financial risk management.

**You will**:

- See yourself as an established Contracts Manager or Commercial Manager looking to further your career in a key leadership role within a top tier contractor on a major project.
- Have a clear drive to achieve quality commercial outcomes and have demonstrated success in a similar role - we are interested in your skill base and potential, not the size of your past projects.
- Provide commercial and contractual support on pre-contract and post-contract matters and issues to ensure successful financial outcomes are achieved by the project.
- Support both the delivery and commercial teams by providing advice to about contractual issues and mentoring of team members on contractual issues and strategies.
- Provide commercial guidance to the Rail business unit on contract and risk management, including costings and programming strategies.
- Lead a passionate team of commercially minded professionals, whilst also growing the team’s technical and leadership skills.

**To be successful in this key role, you must have**:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Law, Commerce, Accounting, Quantity Surveying, Business or other associated disciplines.
- 7 years’ experience in commercial and contract administration gained on construction, engineering or associated projects.
- 2-5 Years’ experience in commercial management role.
- Post graduate qualifications e.g. graduate certificate, graduate diploma in Commerce, Accounting, Quantity Surveying, Business, Construction, Property, Law or other associated disciplines is desirable.
- Advanced skills in procedures for project contract administration, general business administration and project management.
- Reporting and compliance with respect to commercial performance and legislation/ code to prevent potential business exposure.
- Understand scope of works for the project and regions and business units and each subcontracted section of works including the ability to interpret drawings and specifications. Skill in quantitative and qualitative risk assessment and development of risk controls and actions involved in delivery and implementation of projects.

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.
We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

**What’s in it for you when you join John Holland?**
We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.
We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

**We offer**:

- Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, an