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Commercial Manager

Position opened: 21 July 2008

Position closes: 21 September 2008

Reference: 1823

Location: Canada

Key Accountabilities:

The Commercial Manager is responsible for directing and providing consistent and appropriate commercial, contractual and tendering principles, leadership and support to the Joint Venture and the Alliance to ensure growth, profitability and governance targets and requirements are achieved and secured.It requires strategic leadership and enactment of future business direction towards growth and increased profitability.

Strategic guidance, advice, auditing and approval of significant tenders, purchases, variations, claims and other contractual and commercial administrative functions is required across the Alliance. Particular leadership is required to ensure consistent and risk appropriate strategies and actions are maintained and enacted across the Alliance.

Establish and develop a tem environment that promotes a high level of work output in parallel with staff motivation and satisfaction.

When required, they will act in the role and on behalf of the Alliance Manager.

Mentoring of Alliance staff will be required.

Reporting / Organisational Relationships:

The Commercial Manager reports directly to the Alliance Manager, and is required to work closely with all other members of the Alliance Management Team and all Alliance Participant General Managers and/or Vice Presidents and/or Management teams.

Whilst there are relatively few direct reports to this position, every employee with significant commercial, contractual or tendering issues has a functional report to the position via the structure.

Approval of tenders and variations and/or claims up to specified amounts will require interaction with all appropriate levels of staff both within the Alliance and within the external organisations of the Participant companies.

Setting and implementation of strategic direction requires interaction with all senior levels of the Alliance and Participant organisations.

As a member of the AMT provide advice to the Owner which allows it to make informed strategic and business decisions.

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