Commercial Director

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

12/10/2024

The Team

Cundall is an engineering and design partnership leading the way in the provision of creative, sustainable design solutions for the built environment, and we are looking for an inspiring and forward-thinking Commercial Director to lead our commercial strategy and commercial team.

We are an organisation who are committed to living and breathing our values of integrity, collaboration, excellence, and creativity. The current commercial team is expanding as the benefits of having this function are being felt around the business, and we are therefore looking to embed more commercial activities across the business to better support project teams, leadership, and management groups and help to facilitate better commercial outcomes. There has never been a more exciting time to join the practice as we continue to develop our new global strategy.

The Role

Working closely with the global Management Board and Global Finance Director, the Commercial Director will set and drive commercial strategy for the business in line with wider business objectives. The post holder will work closely with business leaders across the practice to understand their project challenges, build and develop our commercial team so that it provides best-in-class solutions to address these. As a member of the leadership team, the post holder will constructively challenge senior peers to drive exemplar project management behaviours and a high-performance culture within their respective project teams.

Examples of business priorities for the Commercial Director include the development of a robust commercial strategy that can be applied consistently across all parts of the business, and to embed commercial activities around the business, both in the UK and wider business to better support project teams and help to facilitate improved commercial outcomes on projects and for the practice.

The Skills

You will want to join our team if you are an experienced commercial leader with proven track record of driving commercial strategy within complex multi-site organisations, and ideally internationally. You will also possess experience in an engineering consultancy and managing commercial aspects of projects in the built environment.

Demonstrable understanding of issues of commercial and contractual risk, and a proven ability to optimise risks is central to the success of this role, alongside the ability to build and maintain relationships with both internal technical teams and external clients, suppliers, and outside consultants.

Job Description

Why Join Cundall?

We know that to be the best at what we do we need a diverse workforce underpinned by an inclusive culture. Creating environments where everyone can find joy doing their best work is also great for everyone. That’s why we positively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, and encourage, support, and celebrate the diverse voices of our people.