Associate Director - Major Projects Advisory - Procurement & Commercial Strategy - Market Shaping

United Kingdom

12/19/2024

Job details

Location: Birmingham, London, Manchester

Capability: Deal Advisory

Experience Level: Senior Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Customer, Ops & Infr

Contract type: Permanent

Job Description

The Team

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

Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the

On the back of continuing growth, we are once again investing in our team and boosting our numbers, which means

The Role

This role is for an innovative professional at associate director level with strong major project and programme 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 blended 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.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London,

The Person

This role is ideally suited to those with significant post-qualification experience in commercial or programme management with a strong wider working knowledge of engineering, design, delivery, and construction supply chains. This experience will have been gained on very high-value,

• An excellent understanding of the construction market 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 robust understanding of procurement law and regulations, with a demonstrable interest and understanding of procurement implications
• Familiarity with industry-standard contract forms such as the
• A good understanding of issues which impact project performance
• An ability to assess new situations and data quickly to provide a basis for developing an understanding of causal factors
• Ability to set out a clear approach to tackling a new challenge in the most efficient manner
• Clear, concise, fact-based reporting
• A relevant professional qualification, such as MCIPS or MRICS
  
  
  

In addition to the above, experience in some of the following areas would also be of benefit to the candidate in the environment that we work in:

• Project / programme management
• Project / programme controls
• Engineering or Design
• Earned value management
• Cost management, estimating and benchmarking
• Risk management
• Claims,
• 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
• Financial management of engagements including budgeting,
• Performance management and mentoring of junior employees
• The role will be client facing and have direct impact on the reputation and perception of KPMG
  
  
  

In addition to the technical requirements of the role we also expect the right candidate to:

• Be capable of working alone or within a team, including quickly building rapport and delivering with new teams
• Provide clear and concise advice to clients and manage client relationships
• Maintain your requirements for continuing professional development
• Play a key role in business development and team strategy development/implementation
  
  
  

Why Deal Advisory at KPMG?

We partner with our clients to give them the confidence to make key decisions for their business. It's all about blending our deep sector expertise with our execution skills. Whilst we operate within a robust framework, we'll ensure you have the autonomy you need to shape the strategies behind our clients' decisions and help influence their successes.