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Pre Construction Manager

Job Description

We are on the search for a talented Pre Con Manager for one of London's leading workplace strategy, design and build experts.

Job purpose
The Employee’s job role will be varied but will principally involve supporting the sales team to secure fast-track commercial office fit-out and refurbishment projects.
The Employee is responsible for ensuring that project profitability targets set at initial sales meetings are met.

Bonus schemes attached to this role – the Pre Con Manger would be a % of GP for the projects they are responsible for/support.

Responsibilities:
• Co-ordination of structured and documented brief taking.
• Co-ordinating the strategy to effectively win the project and sell the services that the company offer is followed.
• Provide Project Directors with the required support at subsequent negotiations on the
prospective project.
• Ensure that all aspects of the project are fully co-ordinated and pitch timetables are met.
• Assess commercial risk of individual Projects with the project team, including viability of projects and ability to deliver to timescales and budgets.
• Agree timescales for the Project – pre and post tender. Ensure that these are communicated
and controlled.
• Identify any potential Health & Safety issues regarding CDM, COSHH, method statements and risk assessments associated with the Project. Ensure the Planning Co-ordinator responsible is allocated at an early stage.
• Liaise with the Design team to ensure design buildability, value engineering and
drawings/specification for client approval.
• Where necessary, arrange for a member of the project team to assist clients in negotiations with their Landlords, Solicitors, Agents etc. to obtain all leases and licences to enable the works to proceed as quickly as possible.
• Carefully monitor costs as designs are developed. Ensure full design package produced for
Contract Managers.
• Agree the stage for design freeze.
• Liaise with in-house divisions, as appropriate, to provide M&E, Voice & Data (IT) and furniture input at an early stage in the project.
• Agree and write detailed specifications to enable the Contracts Team to obtain the most
accurate and best possible price from subcontractors and suppliers for the works without
interpretation when the project goes live.
• Provide back to back quotations on all packages in particular specialist items, i.e. joinery,
acoustic works and any external works of a complicated nature.
• Agree contractual terms and conditions with the client, including the most commercially viable
payment terms for the Group. Ensure all drawings, specification, contract documents are signed
off prior to handover.
• Provide a detailed item by item cost plan/estimate to enable strict financial control of live
Projects. Cost plan to be agreed between the Contract Manager and Pre-Contract Manager
prior to the project approval. The agreed cost plan must be capable of detailed comparison
once packages are placed, and form the basis of cost control on the project.
• Provide and capture accurate information within the CRM system and ensure that
all pre-contract related activities have been completed at each project milestone.
• Ensure that the Contracts team have been fully onboarded prior to the approval meeting and
support them during this transition and approval process.
• Seek positive feedback from the Contracts team to ensure continued accuracy in estimating
and to ensure that planned variation orders are achieved.
• Offer advice and assistance if necessary, to the Projects team post contract. Specifically ensure that where cost plan is not being met (+/- 2.5% on any one-line item), ensure that Project Managers are assisted in value engineering item to ensure original figures are returned or improved.
• Continually improve process to enable the company to be a serious player in the Interior Design& Build market.
The employee will report directly to the Head of Pre Contracts on all project matters.

Required Experience (Essential):
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Construction Project Management and Estimation.
• Experience of working in Commercial Office Interiors industry.
• Sales and Board Level Pitch experience.

Personal Attributes:
• Continuous learning mindset
• Team player
• Excellent communicator
• Be able to effectively communicate technical terms/processes with non-technical people
• Flexible mindset
• Not afraid to challenge
• Leadership skills
• Focused on continuous improvements

Company benefits:
Holiday: 23 days + 3 days at Christmas (increasing with length of service)
Pension: starting at 5% employee, 3% employer (increasing with length of service)
PMI: option to opt in to company funded Private Medical Insurance (P11D benefit)
Life Assurance: x1 basic salary
+many other benefits including workplace nursery benefit, season ticket loans, religious bank holiday swapping, cycle scheme, EAP & Cash Plan, holiday buying and selling etc.

APPLY VIA LINKEDIN OR EMAIL YOUR CV TO CONNIE@MOSAICRECRUIT.CO.UK

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