Commercial Manager & Quantity Surveyor

Full Job Description

General Responsibilities

• Provide the Project team with cost management and quantity surveying expertise
• Ability to prepare the overall construction cost of a design build project
• Preparation of detailed Bills of Quantities (BoQ)
• Preparation of project cash flows
• Understanding of market material and labour rates
• Understanding of material specifications
• Manage the bidding and selection of subcontractors and vendors via transparent and ethical process
• Preparation of vendor analysis and recommendation reports
• Assist with contract award to selected vendors
• Negotiate and manage vendor payment terms in accordance with JLL guidelines
• Review and recommend approval of vendor payment applications
• Prepare payment recommendations for submission to JLL finance
• Manage overall vendor costs within the JLL contract budget to protect Design Build margins
• Accurately forecast cost to complete for each subcontractor or vendor
• Immediately highlight any changes in scope and prepare Change Orders
• Provide Change Order documentation to the project team for sign-off with the client
• Ensure Change Orders are completed prior to instruction of additional work
• Work with the team to ensure all work scope and defects are completed prior to payment release
• Manage completion of final accounts with all subcontracts/vendor
• Assist the team with contract documentation such as Change Orders, Extensions of Time, Practical Completion Certificates to ensure completeness
• Assist in developing reporting tracking tools and generates cost reports in line with project governance requirements
• Create and maintain spreadsheets to enable fast and accurate data manipulation
• Extract data from several sources, transforming it to fit for reporting and operational outputs
• Reconcile data to support complete accuracy and creates a clean audit trail

Leadership (where applicable)

• Supports the vision and strategy of the projects and ensuring the client receives exceptional project delivery
• Understand the client’s key business drivers, to enable alignment with our deliverables
• Client/Stakeholder communication
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders in the Client’s organization

Commercial Management

• Work with JLL and client Legal team to review contract documents to the point of agreement between parties for sign off
• Work with Managing Director, Bid Manager  to finalize agreed cost in proposals prior to submission to clients
• Ensure vendors have adequate insurance certificates for each project initiated
• Work with the team to track the key performance indicators, and work within the service level agreements and other measures, as contracted
• Contribute to financial risk management and provide inputs to help reduce financial risk to the Client.

Operations

• Support client specific initiatives such as savings targets, benchmarking, and best practices
• Implement best practices to the account
• Drive consistency in the account e.g., in reporting
• Ensure consistency in the monthly reporting in country
• Assist with the preparation of regional reporting to the satisfaction of the Client

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If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

About JLL –

For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500 ® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAY . JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit  jll.com .

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