Role: Director - Commercial, Contracts & Procurement
Essential: Must be either Western or European Educated
Industry: Property Development (Real Estate)
Location: Dubai
Salary: 60,000 AED (Basic 30%) + Education Allowance (26,500 per child per annum, upto 3 kids) + Annual Tickets & Medical Insurance for self & family + Family Status + Excellent Annual Bonus
Summary:
Accountable to manage contracts, budgeting, procurements processes of the group projects, monitor tendering of Consultants and Contractors throughout Engineering/Design (pre - contracts), Construction and post-Contracts stages to deliver the projects within the project budgeting and to the best quality, on time & within minimal disputes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery.
- Create Contracts for the new projects and Manage costings and budgets for running Projects from clear objectives, managing finances to ensure profitable and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved.
- Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet Owner's expectations.
- Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all Procurement team members, including mentoring, coaching and influencing others, and take action to ensure organisational policies and codes of conduct are followed.
- Assure compliance with consultants and contractors contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
- Analyse and review complex information from a range of sources and oversee recommendations provided by other specialists, to improve the long-term performance of the cost/commercial management service.
- Seek to continuously develop processes and lead the implementation of new cost and commercial management system improvements, working to improve services, drive innovation and enhance project delivery.
- Act as a lead cost & commercial expert, providing strategic advice to other senior managers on cost and commercial management matters, to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
- Manage and build strong working relationships with senior departments managers and stakeholders, in order to ensure robust development plans and objectives and to extend the most cost management services and create new business opportunities.
Requirement:
- Minimum Bachelor's Degree holder
- 15 - 20 years of total experience with at least 5 years within a Property or Real Estate Development organization.
- Deep Knowledge of FIDIC (mainly red and yellow books)
- Relevant professional qualification and ideally chartered status with a relevant professional institution i.e. RICS, CIPS, ICE, CIOB etc.
- Possess the skills and experiences to actively support the internal team and manage resources on technically complex projects/programme of works.
- Relevant professional experience, including of delivering large and complex projects across an entire project life cycle.
- Experience of managing people, and leadership skills including the ability to motivate others.
- Experience of building and utilising external and internal relationships at executive level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor.
