Associate Director Commercial - Western Sydney Airport – SSTOM (Linewide package) (12month Temporary Opportunity) (93694)

Your wealth of experience positions you uniquely for this rare opportunity to shape history. Prepare to lead and direct, to deliver a range of key work packages impacting millions.

In this role, you’ll

• Work collaboratively with each of the respective Commercial Directors and Delivery Directors managing their own packages, to ensure uniformity of approach across the Western Sydney Airport (WSA) project within a matrix structure.
• Be assigned to the Associate Director Commercial - Systems, Stations, Trains, Operations and Maintenance (SSTOM) – Linewide package.
• Lead the provision of professional guidance across the commercial activities to achieve agreed objectives and best practice, consistency, and efficiency.
• Ensure consistency of internal and stakeholder reporting, managing change approval papers, finance, and managing key professional services engagements for the WSA (SSTOM) Linewide package.
• Be responsible for the commercial management of the contracts during the delivery phases.
• Be dedicated to coaching, mentoring and developing the Commercial team.

This is a 12month Temporary Transport Senior Service Executive (1A) role. For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description .

About you

• Experience in leading project level advice on commercial matters during delivery phase including responses to variations, claims, notices, contract negotiations, contract risk allocation and resolution of contract disputes.
• Experience in managing a team of commercial professionals providing leadership and direction to deliver the requirements of a contract.
• Experience with contract management of Tier 1 Contractors in a high-profile project.
• Comfortable working in an environment with competing priorities and management of those priorities to enable completion of projects while delivering day to day tasks in the required timeframes.
• Proven communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Tertiary qualifications, preferably chartered status or working towards membership.
• Experience working on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project or Linewide Track is highly desirable.
• A customer centric approach will set you up for success in this role, you’ll be passionate about bringing together a group of commercially astute leaders and partner with them achieve common project goals.

Who we are

Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway. We engage with our customers and community and contribute to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.

The Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport Project (SM-WSA) is a 23-kilometre new metro railway connecting the Western Sydney Aerotropolis in the south with the future Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport and the existing St Marys station in the north.

SM-WSA is being delivered under the Western Sydney City Deal, a 20-year partnership signed in March 2018 between the NSW and Australian governments and eight councils of the Western Parkland City, and is jointly funded by the NSW and Australian Governments.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

We offer a wide range of employee benefits , like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days.

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us. Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59 pm Wednesday 29th May 2024.

For more information about this role, please contact EFFIE.ROGARIS@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

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