BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is an international architectural company characterised by an entrepreneurial spirit, true teamwork across expertise areas and new ways of approaching conventional tasks. We have an informal work environment where camaraderie and collegial support are highly valued and where ambition, very high work morale and dedication to being the innovators of our field unify our staff. Our office culture is characterised by creativity, high energy and a strong team spirit. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a workplace where we want to be and work continuously to become better at what we do.
We are a company experiencing steady growth, and as we grow, we also strive to mature. We have over the past 20 years developed from a 10 to an 800 people organisation in New York, London, Barcelona, Shenzhen, Copenhagen, Zurich, Bhutan and Los Angeles.
BIG LON is currently looking for a talented, motivated, and ambitious Commercial Manager to join our Operations team in London. As Commercial Manager, you will be responsible for preparing fee proposals for existing or prospective projects, ensuring that all tender requirements have been considered and that potential uncertainties in the tender material have been clarified to ensure that BIG is positioned with the best possible chance of success.
To successfully develop a fee proposal, the Commercial Manager must conduct a thorough analysis of contractual terms, scope, and timeline and interface with other consultants as required to understand the project at hand and to be able to price and structure a fee proposal efficiently and correctly. BIG LON operates primarily in the UK, EU, and SWANA / Gulf, and has select projects elsewhere in the world. The Commercial Manager must be comfortable operating in an international environment and have the ability to quickly grasp and analyse the industry-specific requirements related to the country in which the project sits.
In addition to preparing fee proposals, the Commercial Manager will be involved in estimating construction costs and substantiating that a design can be realised within a given construction budget as and when required in the tender process and building a tool to benchmark internal and industry data.
You will be working within BIG’s Operations team, reporting to the Managing Director, and you will have a strong working relationship with the Business Development team, the Project Controlling team and our in-house Legal team, as well as bidding teams and fee proposal specialists in our New York, Copenhagen and Barcelona studios.
This role offers great personal development potential in an international, fast-paced, and highly ambitious creative environment.
This job description reflects the core activities of the role and is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive; it is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing. There is a requirement for the post holder to recognise this and adopt a flexible approach to work.
Application:
Please upload your CV, cover letter and suitable references. We will contact you if your profile matches our requirements.
This is a full-time position based out of BIG’s London office. You must have permission to live and work in the UK.
The salary for the role will be subject to relevant experience and qualifications.
Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we value, celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Bhutan-based global architecture firm operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior design, landscape design, product design, and research & development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economic flows, and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored.
A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking, and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we as architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet to better fit contemporary life forms.
BIG is committed to supporting its new parents and their families, and is a proud member of Pledge Parental Leave. While on leave, BIGsters will continue to receive all employee benefits previously provided including health insurance and will remain eligible for salary increases and bonuses, as well as 52 weeks of job security. We offer 18 weeks of total paid leave in addition to accrued vacation to extend the paid leave for primary caregivers, and 4 weeks paid leave for secondary caregivers.
