Are you an experienced commercial management professional?  Then perhaps you can leave your mark on HMP Glasgow, one of Scotland's largest construction projects, conveniently located circa 10 miles North East of the Glasgow city. 

We have an excellent opportunity for an MEP commercial Manager to join our team delivering this flagship project  delivering modern new-build custodial facility,  delivering a secure, energy efficient and high specification prison for 2000 inmates and staff. 

Location: Glasgow, Scotland 

Contract: Permanent, full time, permanent, flexibility can be considered simply outline in your application. 

What will you be responsible for? 

As MEP Commercial Manager you will be responsible for delivering £180M of services packages across the campus, managing the MEP commercial team and supply chain, overseeing change management, key remit will include, but not be limited to: 

• Day to day management of the MEP commercial team, empowering performance, acting as escalation point and taking a key role in managing the MEP sub contractor relationship in line with the contract.
• Comply with the procurement strategy set out from the beginning of the project.
• Valuation and measuring of change, advising on legal and contractual matters on orders and change valuation of project and subcontract progress.
• Undertaking procurement activities including subcontract enquires, tender reviews and order production.
• Undertaking of monthly cost report, commercial plan reporting and external client reporting
• Undertaking project cashflows and turnover forecasts with the senior team.
• Undertaking of Risk and Opportunity reporting and management, producing margin improvement plans and driving margin into the project

We want to hear from you if you can demonstrate: 

• Qualified, at degree level or HND/HNC (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying.
• Experience managing and mentoring commercial teams / staff within large schemes
• Clear understanding of all main forms of contract JCT, NEC, ability to strategically manage risk and opportunities to maximise margin
• A level of technical understanding of MEPH services, components that make up individual systems and how packages are broken out and the interfaces associated with this.
• Full UK Driving License 

This role will offer hybrid working with circa 3 days p/w bases on site, we are happy to consider candidates across the UK and offer subsistence and disturbance allowances for those based out with commuting distance to the project. 

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.  

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkie