AddressAt Siemens Mobility, we empower transport providers worldwide to realize sustainable mobility solutions. As a leading technology company, we combine the real and digital worlds like no other in rail. In an open ecosystem, we bring together rolling stock, rail infrastructure, customer service, and software to enable sustainable, comfortable and cost-effective rail traffic today.
We are seeking Expressions of Interest for a Commercial Project Director for potential opportunity based in Perth, WA Australia.
What do you contribute?
The Commercial Project Director works (CPDir) will work in close relations with the Project Director (PDir) with the objective of executing the project within defined targets (e.g. costs, time, quality) ensuring customer satisfaction, in line with the implications of Alliance model contracts (Transparency, Good Faith, Best for Project decision making, Risk and Opportunity sharing, No-Blame culture).
In this role, the Commercial Project Director acts as entrepreneur, bridging the gap between business, technical and commercial sphere.
The Commercial Project Director takes full responsibility for all commercial related matters of the project. This includes the role of the SMO commercial representative in an Alliance Model as well as the responsibility for Contract & Claim Management and Procurement.
You will lead the project team of ~5 Commercial Project Managers (Onshore) in collaboration with the Offshore CPMs and World Project Controller.
- Especially, you will be responsible for implementing efficient controlling tools and flows in order to fulfil required "open book" processes, enabling involved stakeholders to provide the envisaged transparency at Alliance and SMO internal level.
- Additionally, you will drive the contract and claim management towards customer, partners, and suppliers.
- drive consistent steering actions to achieve the targets set by the business in terms of revenue, profits and cash, in line with internal regulations (FRG's)
- Performs ongoing optimization of organization, procedures, and processes to ensure rationalization potential, to optimize productivity and to increase customer satisfaction.
- Analyse regularly deviations from time, cost and risk level point of view, prepare presentations and decision memos for the established owner and partner of the project, in the same way internally for the involved management of the business or local, regional and headquarter entity level. This includes to utilize advanced data analytics techniques to extract meaningful insights from financial and operational data.
- Develop and maintain data-driven dashboards and reports to communicate key findings such as cost deviations to the Project Steering Committee and other stakeholders.
- Follow up risk, including foreign currency management on regular basis, mitigate and optimize detected risk exposure with aligned measures in timely manner during the execution phase.
- To this end, you will actively collaborate with our technical, contract management and procurement team to raise awareness for and solve commercial topics on time.
- Lead the organization assigned employees, coach the assigned Commercial Project team of the project, from legal, financial, accounting, controlling, reporting perspective.
- Enforcing compliance to standards, rules, and regulations - interacting with experts from Accounting, FPM, Tax, Treasury, P&O and Legal when required
- Preparation and presentation of (monthly and ad hoc) reports to the customer and Siemens internally to the management.
What do you bring along?
- You hold a Master's degree in a commerce, finance, business administration or related fields of study.
- You have longtime experience as Commercial Project Director and/or Senior Commercial Project Manager role. Having successfully performed the Siemens SCPM-certification, a CPDir-certification will be significant advantage.
- Alternatively, you can offer broad experience and expert-know-how based on a commercial management-role in complex project-business.
- Excellent language skills (written and spoken) in English are required. German language skills will be an advantage.
- You have strong intercultural sensitivity and can work with teams and stakeholders from different countries and cultures, both internal and external.
Why you'll love working for Siemens Mobility
We live and foster an ownership culture in which every employee takes personal responsibility for our Company's success. We invest in our team members, offering a wide variety of development opportunities. Below some of the other benefits we offer to our employees:
- Flexible working arrangements
- National & International opportunities
- Positive, inclusive and relaxed working environment
- Industry leading parental leave package
- Novated leasing available
- Employee discount program
- Siemens Share Options
Join a team dedicated to transforming the everyday for a more sustainable future.
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Siemens has been recognised as ahead of its time for many reasons, and our progressive policies is one of them. We encourage applications that reflect the diversity of the communities within which we work, and we actively promote this through the recruitment of those who identify as Indigenous or Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander.
We are a proud equal opportunity employer, where we continue to push for a work environment of diversity and inclusion, we also believe that differences in personalities, thoughts and ideas are important, and that is why we know diversity and inclusion is very important in helping realise the potential of our people. As part of our Ownership culture, Siemens supports reasonable flexible working practices that empower our employees to best meet work and personal commitments. #LI-SI
