Associate Director - Commercial - 20004750 (CDU911)

• Champions QIC's "Safety First" value, specifically confident in enacting 'Stop Work' authority, engage in relevant health/safety/wellbeing standards and behaviors.
• Role models leadership behaviors, in line with the Qiddiya Values, always.
• Motivates and inspires a high-performance culture through clear direction, providing continuous feedback, recognizing, and rewarding exceptional performance and fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Supports in the development of the Contracting strategy to achieve QIC's strategic objectives.
• Ensures compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements related to commercial activities.
• Develops, with relevant stakeholders, the Contracts budget in alignment with the organization's budgetary requirements to allow effective delivery of desired objectives.
• Leads the commercial and financial management and reporting, collaborating closely with Directors to define objectives, track progress, and achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Identifies trends and risk related to Cashflow forecasting against cash expenditure targets
• Leads and oversees the implementation of contracting strategies, overseeing contracts administration and change management process, leading value engineering where applicable - applying to end-to-end contract lifecycle.
• Oversees the preparation and monitoring of project budgets, cost forecasts, and cash flows, ensuring alignment with financial objectives and constraints.
• Provides leadership, guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to projects for the resolution of difficult and complex project budgeting, reporting, and cost control problems.
• Develops and implements risk management plans incorporating their risk management policy, procedure, and process.
• Maintains appropriate risk management across the projects, including the management of risks, issues, and opportunities
• Measures and reports risk management performance at both Program and Project levels.
• Endorses continuous improvement initiatives through recommendations, updates and changes to team activities, policies, and procedures.
• Oversees support provided to development teams regarding disputes and contract interpretation to ensure effective negotiation and settlement of claims to all development projects' teams in as needed.
• Coordinates closely with the Projects and Project Controls function in relation to implementing an effective controls system on budget, cost, report, risk, and change management.
• Leads the development of procurement strategies and packages to support the central procurement team and provide recommendations and support as needed.
• Collaborates with project managers and other departments to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Leads the implementation of policies, software and processes.
• Leads stakeholder management on behalf of the commercial function.
• Maintains consistent and standardized reporting practices.
• Mentors and develops a team of commercial and reporting specialists, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.

• Prioritize wellbeing
• Address challenges directly
• Take responsibility for safety
• Correct unsafe practices
• Learn from mistakes to continuously improve
• Hold each other accountable with support and care

• Communicate truthfully and straightforwardly -
• Keep commitments and fulfill promises
• Respect others' rights, dignity, and opinions
• Uphold high professional standards

• Encourage innovation with an open, nimble approach
• Maintain a curious mindset
• Eager to learn and improve
• Think creatively beyond conventions
• Continuously seek ways to enhance performance

• Open, honest engagement with all stakeholders
• Frequent, respectful, transparent communication
• Celebrate successes
• Collaboratively resolve issue

• Respect diverse cultures
• Listen to different perspectives
• Maintain an open mindset to diverse ideas and information
• Build and engage diverse teams equitably and fairly
• Treat everyone with respect and equality

• Ask direct, rational questions
• Speak relevantly for the audience
• Be a team player, share knowledge
• Uncompromising quality standards

• Bachelor's degree - Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Cost Engineering, Legal or related field

• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors preferred

• 10 - 15 years' Commercial construction delivery experience - ideally Contractor and Consultancy and working in Program wide roles, working with large commercial teams across multiple projects
• Major program experience - managing multiple projects, conflicting priorities, and stakeholders.
• Previous KSA /Middle East experience preferred
• Experience leading Commercial Management of Major Projects in a highly regulated, complex, matrixed environments evidencing Full project life-cycle involvement (Bidding thorough to Final Account).
• Subject matter expert in contracts, claims, arbitration.
• Supports team through period of business changes in responding to changing business requirements.
• Provides strategic support and guidance in managing and prioritizing the workload of a commercial and contract administration team, deadline-driven and ability to optimize workload.
• Ability to leverage exceptional written and verbal skills in English - articulate ideas, strategies, and project performance to a range of audiences and to influence at senior levels.
• Ability to leverage in-depth knowledge of enterprise-level management software, such as Prism, SAP, or similar systems
• Leadership skills to inspire large, diverse teams and deliver results.
• Leadership skills and the ability to lead the commercial function's direction, specifically endorsing or opposing practices as needed.

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