Senior Commercial Manager at Siemens Nigeria

Siemens is an Integrated Technology Company. The business activities of our Energy, Health care, Industry and Infrastructure & Cities Sectors have enabled us to capture leading market and technology positions worldwide. Technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and international focus have been our hallmarks for 165 years, making us strong and linking us to our shareholders, employees and customers as a partner of trust.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Business Unit: Project Development
Department: GS D Nigeria

Description

• Responsible for managing day to day financial performance of the BU. Ensure regular and accurate financial planning, forecasting, controlling, and reporting and a concurrent costing to optimize the Business Unit profit and cash flow in a timely manner.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Provide vision, leadership, coordination, and mentoring support to CPMs to promote staff development and maximize team performance.
• Drives continual growth and development among the team members.
• Ensure internal and external stakeholder management within the organization.
• Participating in the negotiations of key contracts, developing commercial agreements for all services to securing favourable terms and mitigating risks.
• Ensure regular, and accurate commercial project management reporting.
• Managing customer expectations and execute projects to the satisfaction of the customer, creating additional business opportunities out of the ongoing projects.
• Monitor and ensure optimal financial performance of Field Service & Service Center, including thorough oversight of utilization, absorption, and project management.
• Pro-actively managing working capital, cash flow and funding requirements, including receivable collection, credit control and supplier payments.
• Coordinate with various internal teams in achieving the yearly Business Target Agreement (BTA) for the division.
• Drives accounting accuracy, process efficiency and productivity on projects.
• Ensure that the company risk management methodology and agreed processes are effectively deployed and adhered to and that any significant issues within the business are brought to attention in a professional and timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS reporting guidelines.
• Assisting in developing commercial management processes and control measures designed to minimize risk and maximize operational performance of contracts.

What You Bring
Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting / Finance
• Certified CPM for "Small or C" Category projects.
• Experience with Project Management methods, processes and tools.
• 5+ years of experience
• Command over MS Office (Excel, Power Point etc...)
• Proficiency with related SAP modules
• Excellent oral & written communication & presentation skills in English
• Experience with forecasting, reporting, and analysis
• Experience with import/export and logistics topics
• Accounting Principles (FRGs)
• Asset Management
• Contract/Claim Management
• Project Risk & Opportunity Management

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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