Property & Construction Department lead - managing £250m capital/revenue spend across annual new space, current estate, asset and business-wide change programmes, leading the following functional areas: - Cost Management & Construction Procurement - Central Property PMO - FM - Commercials & Continuous Improvement - Health & Safety - Energy consumption Management & ESG / Net Zero - Macro Space & Store Planning - Property Model & Formats, Design & Partnerships

Leader of functional Cost management, PMO & procurement team. Managing ongoing workload across internal & external teams with clear targets to ensure programme delivery. Continually exploring opportunities to value engineer, reduce programme time & look for new ideas to innovate across workstreams. Cost & ProcurementDay to day responsibility for all commercial aspects of Capital and Revex plan across all property & construction spend (approx. £550m spend p.a). Weekly & Monthly cost reporting to exec across all workstreams including change management & cost targets. Developing the annual Real estate plan & 3 year Real Estate strategy plan. Working in collaboration with finance & other key wider business units. Previously present to the Wal-Mart exec board for sign off & shared with other Wal-Mart markets as an example of best practice. Supplier management - set up, commercial & compliance management of contractor & consultants for the department. Set & develop the procurement strategy for all construction & property spend to reflect the type, quantum & specialist requirements of each area. Ongoing review to identify when particular areas need retendering & value engineering to ensure best value.Ensure cross functional alignment to the capital expenditure and programme activity across other business units – finance, legal, tax, treasury, controllership, insurance, & compliance.PMOLead the property PMO function supports the delivery of all activity across the real estate portfolio. Own & develop the control / assurance process for cost, risk & change management whilst reporting to build efficiency across workstreams, improve governance, problem solve & minimise risk to Asda. Lead weekly / monthly cross functional alignment & approval meetings for project approval, risk & change management.Risk management & Anti corruption lead – reviewing, updating & assessing ongoing department risks to input into quarterly steering group linking to Exec board review.

Department lead for US led Anti-Corruption audit. Weekly and monthly reporting to exec board and Anti-Corruption steering groups on construction elements of audit as part of company audit in line with US regulations / requirements. Ensure all department processes, contracts and commercial agreements are in line with requirements to ensure effect review and outcomes from audit

Lead senior development project / construction manager for London and SE region, delivery of new stores, acquisitions and home shopping centre projects from inception to completion. Approx. £50m to £75m capex per annum. Full responsibility for budget, programme, planning, capex and project delivery for approx. 6 to 10 new store openings per annum and a further 50 projects in pipeline. Input into weekly, monthly and quarterly reports to department, board and international boards. Weekly report to VP of department and directs team. Delivery of new store pipeline across current year and future programme years. Projects range from new build development on brown field sites, developer led mixed used schemes, to conversions of existing retail spaces for food store use.

Feasibility cost manager covering all cost, risk and programme elements for new stores spaces including group and individual acquisition projects.Managing costs, programme and risk review on new space and acquisitions scheme from initial feasibility plans through board approval, planning and to completion on site.Managing external quantity surveying practices to ensure value added and consistent service. Approving of scheme variations and budgets with internal construction managers.Monthly review of scheme expenditures and capex budgets to Asda and Wal Mart boards. Monthly cost and risk reporting to department on cost and risk issues across the capital programme. Cash flow forecasting for capital plan of department circa £500 million per annum. Establishing cost models for all new store formats. Cost planning and benchmarking of outturn costs.

Cost manager for new stores, extensions and non-food projects.Cost management of new stores, extensions and non-food schemes from initial design through tendering, on site delivery, scheme variations and final accounts.Design and project value engineering reviews to drive out cost and drive project affordability.Monthly review of scheme expenditures, cash flow forecast, cost and risk issues and capex budgets for internal cost reports.Input and review of frameworks tenders for main contractor and consultants for various work streams across the departments capital programme.Review and input into model and bench marking of out-turn costs for future projects and ensure robust model cost plans.

Quantity surveyor on both pre-and post-contract QS duties across residential, commercial, rail, government and residential schemes. Supported as project Employer’s Agent managing a range of residential and commercial projects ranging from £600k to £15 million. Including preparation of tenders, contract documentation, monthly valuations, financial statements, chairing and running site meetings as well as agreeing Final accounts.Experience of measured term contracts, insurance and fire valuations, bench marking/ analysis of framework agreement utilities work.