Lindley A.

Commercial Manager at Lakehouse Everwarm Energy , Southern Region

•Reporting to the Divisional Commercial Manager and overseeing the the entire commercial team at all levels. •Ensuring all projects have accurate and up to date procurement schedules, buying schedules, cost plans, and cost to completion documents as appropriate for the size and complexity of the project. •Recruit, support, mentor, manage and develop commercial staff. •Work closely with Estimating to understand the tender strategy and implement this with the commercial teams. •Manage commercial risk upstream and downstream •Develop an efficient and profitable business unit. •Ensuring that CVRs are completed every month for all relevant projects, and that the accuracy or those reports are fully checked and interrogated. •Ensure all orders are placed with adequate accuracy and detail to protect our position commercially and operationally. •Interrogate all reports to a level of detail necessary to be confident that the information being reported upstream is as accurate as possible. •Ensure that all company commercial procedures are rigorously followed including order sign offs, valuation processes, subcontract payment processes. •Conduct team commercial reviews including, where appropriate, operation representatives. •Monitor and support teams to close final accounts promptly or to maximise margin (or strike the balance between the two). •Submit monthly sales forecasts, and produce detailed variance reports to review accuracy trends. Follow up on persistent issues. •Maintain data on company systems in respect of all projects (such as PC date, defects completion, final account etc). Monitor exception reports and manage issues. •Manage team aged debt issues where such issues are escalated from accounts. •Ensure that retentions are being actively recovered by the operational teams. •Monitor team overhead expenditure. •Act as line manager to QSs and SQSs within team (depending on remit)

All aspects concerning Health, Safety and Environmental issues. The implementation and monitoring of Quality Assurance Procedures. The compilation of the Construction Health & Safety Plan. The compilation of the Health & Safety File. The production of contract programmes. The monitoring of planned against progress as the contract continues. Financial issues including the requirement for the recording of variations. The issue of all relevant letters in connection with E.O.T. & delays etc. Management of defects – retentions. Interviewing new staff and resource management. Managing lump sum projects based on agreed measured term contract (MTC) rates. • Responsible for leading the operational delivery of British Telecom (BT) works, and delivering them on time and on budget while maintaining a high standard of performance. • Responsible for managing a team of Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors and a range of site staff. Includes interviewing and hiring of new staff. • Managing client relationship with BT, ensuring delivery of a high quality service and maintaining a high level of client satisfaction at all times. Also targeted to win new business from existing clients. • Responsible for all negotiating on procurement for materials and subcontractors. • Managing meetings with clients, subcontractors, etc. to monitor and improve performance and capability. • Project managing roll out of BT works, including security works, large lump sum projects, room formation works, etc. • Forecasting on targets, achievements, potential business improvements and growth opportunities. • Producing regular weekly and monthly reports, including cost variance reports (CVR), site completions, programming, etc.

Vinci Facilities, Building Solutions – Southern Region • Managing lump sum projects based on agreed measured term contract (MTC) rates. • Responsible for leading the operational delivery of British Telecom (BT) works, and delivering them on time and on budget while maintaining a high standard of performance. • Responsible for managing a team of Contracts Managers, Quantity Surveyors and a range of site staff. Includes interviewing and hiring of new staff. • Managing client relationship with BT, ensuring delivery of a high quality service and maintaining a high level of client satisfaction at all times. Also targeted to win new business from existing clients. • Responsible for all negotiating on procurement for materials and subcontractors. • Managing meetings with clients, subcontractors, etc. to monitor and improve performance and capability. • Project managing roll out of BT works, including security works, large lump sum projects, room formation works, etc. • Forecasting on targets, achievements, potential business improvements and growth opportunities. • Producing regular weekly and monthly reports, including cost variance reports (CVR), site completions, programming, etc.

Vinci Facilities, Building Solutions – Southern Region • Responsible for financial management on multiple Measured Term and Lump Sum contracts for a range of major clients, mainly BT. • Managing team of Quantity Surveyors and associated administrative staff. • Covered full life cycle of projects. Values ranged from £50,000 to £1.8m. • Liaised with clients and client representatives, attended site meetings, conducted site surveys, etc. • Established a scope of works for each project, covering site measurements and investigations. • Management of accounts for specialist suppliers and subcontractors, from quotation to settlement of final accounts. • Responsible for programming of work, including client negotiation. • Also responsible for delivering tenders for future work.

• Working closely with the Projects Surveyor and Surveying Manager, responsible for quantity surveying tasks on PC 2000 groundworks contract, SS, UMS and Projects. • Developed good working relationships with PQS, clients and consultants. • Duties included payments to subcontractors, measurements and valuations, following management plan procedures, etc. • Liaised with administration team to ensure invoicing and data entry is completed on time.