Project Commercial Director

Kier Group plc; Sleaford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Project Commercial Director to oversee a major project in the defence sector. Responsibilities include managing commercial and cross-functional teams, leading talent development, and ensuring effective procurement strategies. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in construction project leadership and strong negotiation skills. This is a full-time, permanent position in Sleaford, UK, offering flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading a large portfolio of construction projects or a major project.
• Strong front-end experience and ability to build effective teams.
• Familiarity with contractual frameworks, particularly NEC.

Responsibilities

• Manage and motivate the commercial team and other cross-functional teams.
• Lead talent development and build organizational capability.
• Ensure effective demand planning and procurement across projects.
• Review bids to understand risk profiles fully.
• Drive creativity and strategies to maximize margin and cash.

Skills

Leading large portfolios of construction projects

Excellent influencing and negotiation skills

Team building and recruitment skills

Knowledge of NEC suite of contracts

Job description

Kier Group are looking for a Project Commercial Director to join our Kier Strategic Projects business.

This will be a key leadership role where you be the Project Commercial Director for a major project in the defence sector at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire.

Location: Cranwell, Sleaford.

Contract: Full Time, Permanent – flexible working available.

*We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Project Commercial Director, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in providing strategic, visible leadership across your assigned project.

Your day to day will include:

• Accountability for managing and motivating the commercial team as well as cross functional teams including procurement and administration.
• A talent leader, able to identify, grow and progress potential talent to build long-term organisational capability for the region and group as a whole.
• Ensuring we leverage our scale by excellent demand planning and cross project procurement liaising with other parts of the BU/stream as required.
• Ensure technically the bids are reviewed in terms of design and programme to ensure the full risk profile is clearly understood.
• Guide and drive creativity and plans to maximise margin and cash.

What are we looking for?

This role of Project Commercial Director is great for you if you have:

• A proven track record of leading a large portfolio of construction projects or a major project with strong front‑end experience.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to establish and build teams with appropriate skills, and to recruit, train, retain.
• A range of contractual knowledge including the NEC suite of contracts.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance, which takes place before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre‑requisite criteria including residency history. (Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit jobs.kier.co.uk/prison-programme/). This role will also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.

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