Commercial, Performance and Business Support Manager

at  Fulton Hogan

Job Posting End Date
April 20, 2024
Job Location
Wellington
Job Description
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Commercial, Performance and Business Support Manager to join our busy Alliance Leadership team! In this senior role, your responsibilities will be:

Commercial, Performance and Business Support responsibilities

• Lead a team of experts in finance, commercial, performance and risk, quality, and data information to ensure sound delivery, accurate and timely reporting, and continuous improvement of quality performance of the Alliance, aligned to the Target Outturn Cost (TOC) strategy.
• Encompass overseeing the commercial aspects of planning, design and maintenance/ construction delivery.
• Play a crucial role in providing sound guidance in the realms of contractual, financial and risk management within the Alliance. Shape, influence, and drive the financial performance.
• Develop and deliver a commercial strategy in accordance with the requirements of the Alliance and its mission, vision, values and behaviours.

Alliance Leadership Team responsibilities

• Strategic and operational leaders
• Provide overall leadership and visible day-to-day management of the wider WTA team and functional teams within
• Champion a strong health and safety culture across staff and suppliers.
• Create policy, set direction and priorities, raise risk, explore opportunities, and make decisions
• Culture stewards
• Create a positive, cohesive and united high-performance culture that challenges the status quo, embraces our differences, and integrates across WTA functions to achieve shared objectives
• Maintain a health and safety priority
• Objectives and results custodians
• Own and deliver the WTA objectives (accountability, drive change, clear AB focus, governance structures)
• Make ‘best for System’ recommendations to the Board

About you

Our ideal candidate will have previous experience in a Commercial Management role (or similar). Other desirable skills and attributes include:

• A relevant tertiary qualification/s
• 5 + years’ experience in a commercial, performance, and business support manager role (or similar)
• Experience in infrastructure and/or construction projects, putting together bids for new work and negotiating and agreeing to contracts and agreements
• Sound understanding of commercial data; ability to offer analysis, interpretation and decision advise to the Alliance
• Proven ability to write sound Board reports and presentations
• Excellent relationship and influencing skills to solicit buy-in from a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to contribute to the strategic direction of the ALT

The Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, you will have access to a range of other great benefits such as:

• Medical insurance for you and your whānau
• Life insurance from day one of employment
• Increased KiwiSaver employer contributions after service milestones
• BP fuel discounts
• Job security, professional development and career progression opportunities
• Access to family scholarship programmes to support their tertiary study
• Excellent discounts at a wide range of retailers
• Access to free confidential counselling and support services for you and your family

Sound like you?
We are looking for someone who is interested in joining a collaborative, high-performing Alliance environment and can contribute to its success. If this sounds like and you, then we would like to hear from you.
An appointment to this role will be made when the right candidate is found, so do not delay!
About Wellington Transport Alliance
The WTA is a partnership between Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Fulton Hogan and WSP and we work together to connect the Wellington region, delivering high service standards to the people and roading network of the region.
The remuneration, inclusive of FH Real benefits, for this role will be in the range of $140k to $160k p.a.
All successful candidates must under-go and pass a pre-employment medical and drug screen.
We celebrate and embrace diversity across our business and are committed to equal employment opportunities.
We believe in the value that diversity brings to our team and people who share our REAL values are encouraged to appl

Commercial, Performance and Business Support responsibilities

• Lead a team of experts in finance, commercial, performance and risk, quality, and data information to ensure sound delivery, accurate and timely reporting, and continuous improvement of quality performance of the Alliance, aligned to the Target Outturn Cost (TOC) strategy.
• Encompass overseeing the commercial aspects of planning, design and maintenance/ construction delivery.
• Play a crucial role in providing sound guidance in the realms of contractual, financial and risk management within the Alliance. Shape, influence, and drive the financial performance.
• Develop and deliver a commercial strategy in accordance with the requirements of the Alliance and its mission, vision, values and behaviours

Alliance Leadership Team responsibilities

• Strategic and operational leaders
• Provide overall leadership and visible day-to-day management of the wider WTA team and functional teams within
• Champion a strong health and safety culture across staff and suppliers.
• Create policy, set direction and priorities, raise risk, explore opportunities, and make decisions
• Culture stewards
• Create a positive, cohesive and united high-performance culture that challenges the status quo, embraces our differences, and integrates across WTA functions to achieve shared objectives
• Maintain a health and safety priority
• Objectives and results custodians
• Own and deliver the WTA objectives (accountability, drive change, clear AB focus, governance structures)
• Make ‘best for System’ recommendations to the Boar

Our ideal candidate will have previous experience in a Commercial Management role (or similar). Other desirable skills and attributes include:

• A relevant tertiary qualification/s
• 5 + years’ experience in a commercial, performance, and business support manager role (or similar)
• Experience in infrastructure and/or construction projects, putting together bids for new work and negotiating and agreeing to contracts and agreements
• Sound understanding of commercial data; ability to offer analysis, interpretation and decision advise to the Alliance
• Proven ability to write sound Board reports and presentations
• Excellent relationship and influencing skills to solicit buy-in from a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to contribute to the strategic direction of the AL