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“Find your role”

As New Space, PFS and Asset Commercial Manager you will play a key role in overseeing the financial and contractual elements within key Property and Construction workstreams across the Asda estate.

You will collaborate and build strong day to day relationships with multiple stakeholders including Property, Finance, Construction Managers, Project Managers / PMO’s, QS and external suppliers and consultants to ensure projects are delivered within agreed commercial frameworks. You will play a lead role in developing and managing Asda’s new space and PFS models, driving Value Engineering and cost effectiveness, and work closely with procurement to ensure robust commercial tenders and frameworks.

You will be part of a large cross functional team, so you will have a strong, collaborative work ethic and enjoy developing and building working relationships. This role provides many opportunities to further develop your behavioural capabilities, providing plenty of exposure within the business and with our key stakeholders.

You Will:

• Be a key business partner working alongside the construction and delivery teams to drive robust cost management, and commercial agreement with suppliers, contractors and consultants to always ensure best value.

• Be integral in the construction implementation teams programme from start to finish ensuring robust business cases to create buy-in and engagement with key leadership including VP's and CFO.

• Lead on cost governance for the function, ensuring robust controls are managed and implemented in order to deliver commercial integrity and efficiency.

• Play a key role with the procurement team to influence and shape the strategy for construction procurement.

• Manage a team of internal and external QS's to ensure consistent and value-added input into cost and change management from initial feasibility estimates through to final project close out. You will prepare board and department sign off approval papers working cross functional across construction, design and finance teams

• Work closely with the function to support and shape our strategic 3-5 business planning process, identifying the capital and commercial requirements to deliver this.

• Coordinate and manage any communication related to cost, budget and invoicing between internal and external stakeholders for weekly and monthly reporting.

• Work closely with our shared services team to drive robust order, receipting and valuations processes.

• Help to lead, shape and drive the delivery of the cost management of your key workstreams.

• Develop and manage a team of cost analysts.
  

“Let's find out about you.”

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related field.

• Professional membership with RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or equivalent is preferred.

• Cost, QS's and/or commercial management experience from within practice, client side and / or a retail background.

• You must have demonstrable ability to manage and deliver against challenging cost targets

• Excellent negotiation skills, financial acumen, and ability to work with complex budgets.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder relationships and provide clear financial guidance

• Willingness to manage multiple projects with cross-program responsibilities, meeting tight deadlines while maintaining a focus on quality and cost control

• You will be a forward thinker with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Experience of managing and developing colleagues.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves