Executive Director - Commercial

Own and lead the end to end commercial strategy across multiple assets and workstreams

• Provide executive oversight of AQS teams, cost consultants and commercial advisors

• Sign off cost plans, estimates and BOQs at key gateways and approvals stages

• Ensure cost certainty through benchmarking, value engineering and risk management

• Set procurement and contracting strategies from pre contract through to award

• Lead or support commercial negotiations with consultants, contractors and partners

• Establish and enforce commercial controls, reporting and governance frameworks

• Partner with development, delivery, legal and finance teams to support decision making

• Act as senior commercial authority to the executive team and board

• Senior commercial leader with experience on large scale, complex developments

• Strong grounding across pre contract cost planning and post award commercial management

• Experience managing AQS functions, procurement strategies and contract frameworks

• Comfortable operating at board and C suite level with strong stakeholder gravitas

• Background in major real estate, infrastructure or destination scale programmes

• Middle East experience advantageous but not essential