Tender Assurance Manager

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2009**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.

**About the Role**:
This newly created role will see you drawing on your expertise gained across infrastructure construction delivery and commercial/pre-contracts/bid management background to provide independent review of tenders, other binding submissions, and post tender activities to verify key aspects of the submission are in accordance with tender assurance requirements, and to ensure pre-contracts governance in the tender and post-tender phase.

This role will require regular interstate travel, approximately 15-20 times per year, for 2-3 days at a time.

**What you will do;**:

- Provide independent verification and review of tender and post tender activities.
- Leverage industry experience to confirm that proposed methods are logical, justified and constructible.
- Review client tender documents and tender team deliverables such as design, constructability, and planning to ensure consistency and compliance with the client requirements and specifications.
- Track compliance with agreed governance process.
- Identify any additional or alternative verification/ governance needed
- Take the lead on ensuring all aspects of tender assurance (estimating, commercial, methods and technical, planning) are progressed and completed for each tender.
- Prepare all necessary documentation and tender assurance reports.
- Maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders.
- Track and keep informed on all tenders allocated through the tender and post tender periods.
- Leverage experience and knowledge to aid tender teams and communicate lessons learned/recent from previous tenders and projects.

**What we are looking for;**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Sciences, or Construction Management
- 18 years + experience in construction
- Management of multidisciplinary projects and project teams with mid-tier or top-tier contractors
- Understanding of contemporary practices in design and construction methodology
- Contractual, legal, commercial, industrial relations and legislative compliance management experience
- Advanced financial and commercial management including cost reduction and meeting budgets
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative commercial, safety, environment and quality risk assessment and development of risk controls
- Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management
- Experience in tendering large-scale projects ($300m+)
- Complex project management and project delivery
- Experience in reviewing tenders, independent project reviews and business cases
- Experience in various contract types such as Construct Only, Design & Construct, Managing Contract, Alliance, Joint Ventures, and PPP.

**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, and salary sacrifice packaging options available.

**Great leave benefits **including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and wellbeing.

**Career progression** underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

**Learning and development opportunities** where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, and technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

**Inclusion and diversity** is part of how we work and do what we do at John Holl