Commercial Manager

Shungu T Dzirutwe (Jay)View contact details, View contact detailsView contact details Personal Phone: View contact detailsLeadership experience of over fifteen years, boasting vast knowledge of modern management techniques and best practises. Initiative-taking, highly confident, possessing the ability to consistently meet targets and goals. Possesses excellent organisational skills, is results and client driven. A great communicator and exceptional collaborator. Proven as a logical, creative thinker, with strong analytic skills, as well as being widely able to solve problems, unassisted. Solid experience working on large projects totaling over £200 million over the last decadeCareer HistoryCommercial Manager Nokia August 2024 – Current“Responsible for a variety of commercial tasks to support the delivery of a quality FTTP network. Playing a critical role on exciting and game changing infrastructure projects to bring Gigabit speeds the multiple towns across the Cornwall”Duties:• Management of contractual issues in collaboration with legal and procurement teams• Budget management, cost control and financial forecasting• Financial reporting to senior management• Relationship building and maintenance with different stakeholders (town councils, businesses, schools, community groups and general members of the public)• Project activity coordination including Ensuring the variation / compensation event mechanism is correctly followed in line with the business model.• Ensuring contractual time deliveries are met or renegotiated in accordance with contract specifications• Project monitoring and reporting • Risk management and mitigation• Negotiation and preparation of contractual variations with clients• The detailed and transparent process of reporting on costs to date and forecasting cost to completion.• Controlling, ensuring regular measurement (including quality) and valuation of work. • Forecast Capital Expenditure and Operating Expenditure for designed infrastructure projects • Regular liaison with the Client team for the purposes of progressing the project’s commercial aspects.• Regular liaison with the operations team to ensure that the project is being carried out without commercial risk to the organisation• Forecast Capital Expenditure and Operating Expenditure for designed infrastructure projects • Attending customer requested site visits to prospective customer locations to determine the most cost-effective ways to solve build issues• Updating the concept design BOMs because of on-site/ real-time agreed changes • Participating in customer/ community consultation as well as representing the company where disputes arise to seek resolution• Providing advice to project management on managing complex and sensitive issues.• Auditing of completed works, producing as build completion reports and ensuring that completed BOM is accurate for payment purposes• Supporting the Project Manager in providing quality compliance throughout the delivery process• Standing in for the Operations manager when they have not been available• Providing guidance, mentorship and performance feedback OCU Utilities Ltd April 2024 – August 2024 Senior Quantity SurveyorActavo Networks & In-Home (£22m) June 2023 – April 2024Commercial ManagerLightSpeed Networks Ltd (£15m) March 2022 – May 2023Fibre/Commercial SpecialistCity Fibre LTD (£55m) November 2020 - March 2022Planner 2020- August 2021 / Quantity Surveyor May 2021 March 2022Complete Utilities Limited (£80m) Sept 2017 – October 2020Quantity Surveyor Additional Skills AND Qualifications• BSc Honors Degree in Quantity Surveying• Experience working within a Tier 1 Main Contractor as well as working for the client side.• NEC contracts experience• CEMAR, variation management, monthly payment applications & tracking build data• Confident IT skills, proficient in the use of MS Office suite• Full Clean UK Driving LicenseReferencesAvailable Upon Request

[CV Library ID: 7293335 · Availability: 2 months · Wednesbury, West Midlands]