• Ensure a business-wide approach to ensuring success and report on win themes and evolving strategy to the Investment Committee and Executive Leadership Team at key milestones of the transaction programme. • Take accountability for the technical, commercial, and legal input for the production of high-quality competitive bids. • Oversee the bid/pre-preferred bidder activities and financial close process. • Direct and approve the assembly and appointment of the UPP transaction team including procurement of a building contractor and professional consultants. • Build relationships with key stakeholders and lead dialogue and/or negotiations on behalf of UPP. • Oversee the negotiation of project documents beneficial to UPP including leases, project agreements, funding documents and FM and construction contracts. • Ensure that all transaction technical schedules accurately reflect the client and UPP requirements and will allow for the successful delivery of the project. Project Management & Reporting • Report to the Investment Committee on all aspects of the live transactions ensuring that all key risks are identified and mitigated appropriately.
• For each transaction, ensure that appropriate project management controls are in place and effectively implemented • Oversee the development, and progress against a transaction programme and risk register for each transaction. • Ensure the timely production of a handover paper for UPP’s operational teams People Management • Take ownership for all aspects of your teams’ employment including all pay, contract and scheduling decisions, owning the end-to-end recruitment and selection process. • Develop and support your colleagues offering in the moment, as well as structured direction and coaching to build a high performing team. • Build the capability of your team utilising the internal development offer and identifying additional external development opportunities where appropriate. Ensure realistic and stretching targets are set to drive individual and business performance. • Create and lead a motivated and energised team, focused on working collaboratively with each other to grow our business development activities • Act as a role model for our values and behaviours, ensure great performance is recognised, cheer on progress and celebrate success. • Manager teams of multi-disciplinary professional consultants.
Financial Management • Set and ensure compliance with the UGHL Board approved bid budgets. • Ensure that the financial model has adequate and competitive inputs, reportable to the Investment Committee prior to a bid final submission and a Financial Close. • Assist the Business Development Director in setting accurate budgets, track spending against the approved budget and ensure any risk to overspend is effectively communicated. • Forecast and plan projects and evolutions, secure accordingly the required resourcing levels to support business and project requirements.
Other • Undertake other development and management activities as instructed by the Business Development Director • Any other duties as required to achieve preferred bidder status and subsequent financial close of a transaction.
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