Mark Foster Email & Phone Number

Auckland, New Zealand

After working on multiple multimillion project's for a number of years, my role is to provide Expert Commercial, Risk, and financial insight to the Business Units and Division (500 Projects). This role has a key focus on project reviews (Tenders and Live Projects) project controls, claim development and the associated project management of running claims.

Puhoi To Warkworth PPP - Fletcher/Accionia Joint Venture - 1 Billion NZD

Member of the Project ELT - Reporting to the Project Director and Responsible for over 60 staff, looking after all upstream and downstream activities in relation to Commercial, Procurement, Legal, Finance, and IT Activities

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for commercially supporting Tender teams (Bid Managers, Estimators and Engineers) and managing the handover to construction teams - Reviewing and summarizing Requests for Tenders (RFP) to identify Key Commercial Risks and Opportunities for the Tender Teams- Liaison with Legal, Insurance Brokers and Treasury – In order to the approval to submit.

Auckland Prison PPP - Bid - 300 Million NZD

Commercial Manager and Deputy Bid Manager for the D+C Bid for Auckland Prison Project PPPWorking with an extremely professional group of people my responsibilities include: Commercial Lead on behalf of the D+C Contractor, Reporting to the Senior Management team and SPV (Next Step Partners) - in relation to the negotiations of the Project Agreement, D+C.

Ngaruawahia By-Pass - Waikato Expressway 150m NZD

• The development of the project budget and cost codes including input into the procurement of major work packages and maintenance of procurement registers.
• Procurement of subcontractors and suppliers from initial tender to final account stage including processing of monthly claims and maintenance of subcontractor and supplier registers.
• Oversea all Administration of accounting, creditors, weekly payroll and purchasing procedures.
• Implementation and management of POS electronic purchase order system and Workflow electronic invoice processing system.
• Implementation and maintenance of the cost management data base tool and Candy to provide accurate cash flows, budget maintenance, variation management, earned value reporting and cost forecasting. This will include.
• Management and tracking of Head Contract progress claim submissions.

Mackays To Peka Peka Alliance (M2PP)- Wellington

• The Mackays to Peka Peka project (M2PP) is part of The Wellington Northern Corridor Improvements. This $630-million project consists of 18km of four-lane expressway with 9 significant bridges through the areas of.
• Working closely with the IT team setting up the Commercial Systems and work breakdown Structures for the project
• Completing handovers with the estimating teams
• Interviewing, recruiting and appointing
• Training new employee’s
• Leading all commercial strategies.

Te Mihi Geothermal Plant

MSPJV - Te-Mihi Geothermal Plant – $ 650 Million– TaupoContact Energy awarded the largest and first NZ EPC project, for the development the new 166MW Te Mihi geothermal power station to a consortium of joint venture partners including McConnell Dowell, SNC Lavalin Power (Pacific) Inc, and Parsons Brinckerhoff New Zealand, together known as the MSP JV.My.

Auckland

I was responsible for delivery of all residential and commercial projects across the business. From Feasibility to Final AccountKey responsibilities include:- Preparation and evaluation of “New Project” Feasibilities for projects from Green Field Sites to part completed developments.- Production and montioring of all programmes- Financing Agreements, Bank.

The Safe link Alliance was valued at $750 Million and was an alliance between BMD/Leighton/Mausall/ARUP for the upgrade of a Ipswich Motorway and intersection, on the South West Side of BrisbaneAs TiC to the Commercial Manager, my role was to set the contract up in the accounting system by working with the estimators and construction teams by breaking the.

Auckland Construction were predominately involved in road construction and rehabilitation work in and around the Auckland District. Whilst at WORKS I was responsible for managing two construction Divisions of over 20 direct employees working on:- Pukekohe Mega Centre $7 Million – Earthworks (30,000m3), Import of 36,000m3 of Aggregate for Car Park.

Whilst on the Alliance I was commercially responsible for up to 25 projects ranging in size from £100k to £19 Million at any one time I was given increasing responsibility to the point where I was preparing, negotiating, and agreeing target Costs prior to contract awards. As well as being responsible for producing Valuations, Applications to the client.

Bsc In Commercial Management And Quantity Surveying, (Civils Based)

The Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying (CMQS) degree is a four-year thick sandwich programme. Students are sponsored by a.

Btec Gnvq In Construction And The Built Enviroment ( Advanced)

Graduated within the top 5% of the Country, recieving the Cadmans Shield for outstanding achievement