Construction Commercial Manager, Emea

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Construction Department

The Construction team is responsible for the entire process flow of delivering the physical data centers from shovel ready state through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, and management along the way. Construction implements and executes upon the work product developed by the Development & Engineering (D&E) team. The team also manages Vantage’s build partners to success through technical feedback and review, and actively participating in review of schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our construction teams are given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can ensure the key stakeholders are engaged in the decision-making process to align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high
- impact decisions and even more impactful results.

Position Description

Vantage is looking for an ambitious Commercial Manager to drive excellence in all aspect of commercial and contract management.

The Commercial Manager will develop and implement, systems use, standardisation, and coordination efforts across a wide spectrum of ongoing construction projects.

The commercial manager will be accountable for the cost management teams’ outputs as an immediate requirement across sites in EMEA, to ensure auditable and controlled management of commercial contracts. They must be able to foster a positive and collaborative working environment.

Essential Job Functions
- Ensure all construction contract commercial practices, payments and contract management meet the legal requirements to protect the company in each operating environment.
- Ensure compliance by the site teams with monthly routines, review submissions and hold commercial review meetings with the site teams. Ensuring the delivery of robust financial governance and lead on matters related to commercial, performance reporting and contract management.
- Ensuring change control is implemented correctly on projects and the VDC company policy and accounting procedures are followed
- Responsible for the targeted improvement workstreams, as selected by the Commercial Director, To triage any disputes arising from construction, consultancy and supply contracts, and provide a summary report and recommendation
- Attend risk workshops to ensure the site teams are meeting expectation on managing risk, and that costs and time impacts are calculated using sound principles
- Ensure cashflow information is calculated correctly by the site teams, including change or latest schedule delays and associated liabilities
- Ensure construction project cost management services align to the most up to date Vantage systems, tools and processes, identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures.
- Attend the pre-start workshops for the VDC construction management team, prior to GC contract award and set our expectations for commercial and change management
- Assist with the auditing and quality inspections of commercial management services to highlight gaps, focusing on compliance, best practice and engagement across group
- Lead continuous improvement feedback workshops at project completion to identify and communicate opportunities for enhancement, to promote best practice and reduce risk
- Lead or attend steering groups linked to Performance improvement in areas allocated by the Commercial Director and the Senior Construction Services Director
- Contribute to the development of, and facilitate use of company tools and policies across all live projects.
- Identification and implementation of improvement solutions working alongside the all relevant stakeholders.
- Ensuring the use of standardised and approved documents

Job Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or similar field, or equivalent experience
- A proven track record in commercial roles and demonstrable success in developing, implementing and managing effective cost and commercial management processes and reporting systems in the construction industry.
- 10+ years experien