Managing Quantity Surveyor

Overview

In this role you lead a sizeable commercial team within an established infrastructure organisation, delivering senior commercial management across a complex project portfolio. You ensure governance, procurement, and contractual compliance throughout the lifecycle, while steering value-for-money and risk management. You provide strategic commercial input on governance, business cases, and senior decisions, and develop the team towards chartership. This is a high-impact, stakeholder-facing leadership position in a regulated, capital-intensive environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial activity across a portfolio of complex infrastructure projects, covering pre- and post-contract stages
• Maintain contractual compliance with robust processes, controls and escalation
• Develop procurement and commercial strategies balancing value, risk and delivery needs
• Manage relationships with key contractors and suppliers, incl. negotiations
• Provide commercial input through the lifecycle: variations, claims, disputes and obligations
• Ensure value for money across supplier and contract lifecycle
• Oversee payment certification, cost control, forecasting, budgeting and financial governance
• Provide cost and market data to support estimating and planning
• Produce commercial performance reporting and senior insight on risks and opportunities
• Lead, coach and develop a multi-level Quantity Surveying team toward chartership
• Contribute expert commercial input into governance, business cases and strategic decisions
• Support senior commercial leadership on dispute resolution, strategy and initiatives
• Act as senior escalation point for commercial/contractual issues, driving corrective action

Key requirements

• Degree or Master’s in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or related discipline
• Significant experience in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management within civil engineering, infrastructure or complex project environments
• Proven experience managing a substantial commercial team of QS professionals
• Extensive experience handling pre- and post-contract project portfolios
• Strong contract management, procurement, supplier negotiation and risk management experience
• Ability to assess contractual risk, supply-chain resilience and commercial exposure and advise accordingly
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with cross-functional coordination
• Experience budgeting, forecasting, cost control and financial governance
• Experience dealing with claims, disputes, variations and complex contractual issues
• Demonstrable ability to develop people and support professional progression
• Chartered status or strong working knowledge of RICS principles and standards
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required

• commercial leadership
• stakeholder management
• communication
• contract management
• procurement
• supplier negotiation

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