Manager - Major Projects Advisory Commercial Advisory & Assurance (Commercial Strategy and Procurement – Market Shaping)
KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we boast an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.
We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SROs (Senior Responsible Owner) at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.
Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.
This role is for an innovative professional at manager level with major project and programme procurement experience. This role will work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of the full project and programme lifecycle in the construction industry and a blend of procurement, commercial, engineering, delivery, and supply-chain acumen to solve complex problems.
You will be providing advice to a broad range of clients on many different matters, helping them to achieve successful outcomes through planning and implementing innovative and robust procurement and commercial interventions.#
This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and
occasionally overseas.
This role is ideally suited to those with post-qualification experience in commercial or programme management with a wider working knowledge of engineering, design, delivery, and construction supply chains. A good understanding of procurement in construction and project contexts, across the whole lifecycle of an asset
Experience in developing and implementing procurement, supply chain and market management initiatives such as procurement strategies, alliancing agreements, market analysis, and modern methods of construction enablement
A good understanding of procurement law and regulations
Familiarity with industry-standard contract forms such as theNEC suite
A good understanding of issues which impact project performance
Project / programme management
Project / programme controls
Risk management
Claims, disputes, and dispute avoidance
Governance and control of projects
The role will also include the end to end lifecycle of managing client engagements, using KPMG systems, for which comprehensive training is provided):
Management of project teams to deliver client engagements
Looking after financial aspects of an engagement with support and under supervision
Ensuring we keep clients informed of costs and time incurred, in addition to raising invoices and recovering fees, operating within approved risk processes
Be capable of working alone or within a team, including quickly building rapport and delivering with new teams
Maintain your requirements for continuing professional development