Provides water services and wastewater treatment to homes, businesses, and industries across Ireland.
Conduct commercial analysis to support value engineering proposals as they arise.
Provide visible leadership for your team, coaching and developing them to achieve their full potential and deliver business objectives, promoting collaboration and highlighting the behaviours that are expected from everyone in the team.
Manage and maintain a database of costs and rates to enable analysis and benchmarking of construction and service provider costs to ensure costs are appropriate.
Provide input and support to the management of contractual legacy issues.
Build and develop claims settlement risk models and input into dispute resolution strategies.
Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann’s Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information, and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation.
Where required, support Supply Chain in the commercial evaluation and analysis of tenders for Infrastructure Delivery contracts to ensure best practice.
Support the Delivery teams on effective contractual dispute resolution processes including conciliation and arbitration as required, ensuring timely resolution of issues. Where necessary manage complex cases on behalf of Project Manager.
The Commercial Technical Lead will work closely with counterparts across Infrastructure Delivery including our external delivery partners, to ensure the delivery of projects and programmes in accordance with the terms of the applicable contracts, while maintaining and overview on delivery performance, including performance metrics, cost, schedule and risk on an ongoing basis to inform continuous improvement in strategic relationship management and delivery.
Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
Support the Commercial Lead in monitoring the operation of applicable KPIs and input into further development of same.
Commercial and contractual support in the management of projects and programmes across the Infrastructure Delivery Directorate.
The Commercial Function within the Infrastructure Delivery Directorate is responsible for providing the Directorate with the expert commercial and contract management knowledge that is required to deliver the Capital Investment Plan. As the commercial center of excellence driving consistency in the commercial management of contractual arrangements, this team works to minimise risk and increase efficiency in the delivery of the CIP. They are responsible for building commercial competence and capability within the directorate, increasing and evidencing value, whilst reducing commercial, quality and supervisory risk from the way in which the portfolio is delivered. There are three core departments within the Commercial Function, namely Commercial & Contract Management, Estimation and Cost Intelligence and Construction Services.
Carry out regular reviews of projects and programmes to assess value for money by benchmarking and assessment of programme/project costs across the portfolios.
Review applications for payments from contractors to ensure adherence to the contractual provisions and calculating amounts due in respect of claims or non-standard items.
Monitor the closeout of final accounts supporting the Project Managers and Commercial Lead on any significant contractual issues.
The Commercial team are responsible for all aspects of contract and commercial management, including managing, monitoring and reporting on commercial performance, which encompasses cost control, forecasting accuracy, risk and contingency management, change control processes, commercial disputes and supplier relationship management. This team will work closely with Infrastructure Portfolio Delivery teams, providing the expertise required to make accurate and appropriate commercial decisions on projects or programmes.
Acting as the subject matter expert in the contractual provisions of particular projects and programmes as required.
Liaise and consult with the Programme/Project Managers and Portfolio & Governance team on the relevant commercial aspects of Infrastructure Delivery contracts.
Raise and escalate issues relating to commercial contracts affecting portfolio delivery, as appropriate.
Ensure compliance with standards and processes.
Proactively identifying new areas of improvement by challenging current processes and encouraging creative thinking
Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards.
Reporting to the relevant manager within the commercial function, the Commercial Technical Lead will be responsible for ongoing commercial evaluation, cost management, risk management including the maintenance of accurate risk records, claims identification, dispute avoidance and supplier performance monitoring and analysis to inform supplier relationship management on projects and programmes across the Infrastructure Delivery Directorate’s portfolio.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant experience
Relevant third level qualification and or accreditation is desirable
Ability to develop and maintain effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally and offer guidance and support to make the right decisions
Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions
Experience in contributing to a safe working environment by checking regularly that safety and wellbeing practices are being followed
Drive for high performance, setting the standard for continuous improvement.
Input into risk management strategies, workshops, etc. to identify and manage programme and project risks.
Experience in managing end-to-end processes to ensure delivery meets customer expectations
Experience providing coaching in the development of the technical skills and abilities in others
Demonstrated people management experience, with strong people, change management and conflict resolution skills
Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional and ethical standards with proven ability to deliver results
Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements