Alan MacLean

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ABOUT ALAN MACLEAN

My mission is to make organisations, teams and projects work more effectively by managing and facilitating change, building collaborative relationships across organisations, between clients and contractors and creating environments and healthy cultures where businesses and projects can be successful.My background is across collaborative working, change management, commercial management, cost control and procurement with 20 years of experience in business environments including rail and construction. I engage with people across boundaries, seek out information, work to build consensus while keeping focus on wider strategic objectives and goals.I am also a team leader who brings control to an organisation, building processes and structures to help standardise and co-ordinate information across businesses, programmes of work, major projects and multi-disciplinary project teams. I negotiate and gain consensus with gatekeepers across different businesses. I provide the following:I facilitate collaborative discussions and help to build trust between project team members and suppliers to overcome obstacles to successful project delivery.Openness, honesty trust and professionalism and a willingness to engage with internal and external team members and stakeholders, find out weaknesses and plan improvements.I conduct in-depth investigations to tease out all sides of an issue to understand the benefits and risks to recommend the best course of action. Identification of commercial strengths, weaknesses and risks with action plans for improvements.I have led multi-disciplinary projects across the rail industry including signalling, telecoms, E&P, track, buildings & civils and tunnelling ranging from £200k to £1.2bn AFC.I was the lead senior commercial manager on Western Rail Link to Heathrow project for 5 years, a nationally significant infrastructure project with and AFC of £1.2bn which covered all major disciplines.My top skills are collaborative business relationship management, change management, commercial change and claims management, contract preparation and contract analysis, tender process management and negotiation.I reduce the risk of problems caused by poor contract drafting and a lack of understanding from parties to a contract of the scope and risks within a contract.I analyse contracts, claims and changes to help clients understand whether there is a good justification for changes to cost, quality and time and what the impacts to costs should be.