Senior Quantity Surveyor / Senior Commercial Manager with experience of working on either rail or highways projects required to join a rapidly growing client in Bristol.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing company that is making a real impact across some of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure programmes. Their success is built on their people, empowering individuals to think differently, challenge convention, and bring innovative solutions to complex projects.
If you have a strong understanding of the NEC suite of contracts, thrive on building trusted client relationships, and want to play a key role in delivering flagship projects, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development, implementation and continual improvement of the Contract Management Strategy and associated improvement programme.
- Support contract management best practice by developing consistent standards, tools, templates, guidance and assurance processes.
- Manage and develop a team responsible for overseeing strategic contracts, providing leadership, coaching and expert commercial support.
- Establish proportionate governance, accountability and escalation arrangements for high-value and high-risk contracts.
- Lead post-award contract management activities, including mobilisation, performance reviews, risk registers, change control, KPI tracking and contract close-out.
- Provide senior oversight of NEC contracts, ensuring the effective management of early warnings, programmes, compensation events, payment processes and commercial risks.
- Work with contract owners and suppliers to address underperformance, manage variations and contractual entitlement, and secure value for money.
- Prepare portfolio-level reporting and provide clear commercial updates, recommendations and assurance to senior leaders and governance boards.
Job Requirements:
- Significant experience in quantity surveying and commercial management within the rail, highways, bus or wider transport infrastructure sector.
- Strong understanding and practical application of the NEC form of contract.
- Experience in post-award contract management, including mobilisation, change control, risk management and performance monitoring.
- Knowledge of compensation events, early warnings, programme management, payment mechanisms and contractual risk under NEC contracts.
- Ability to develop and implement commercial governance, assurance frameworks and contract management strategies.
- Experience of managing, coaching or supporting commercial and contract management teams.
- Strong analytical, reporting and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to provide commercial challenge and advice.
- Relevant quantity surveying, commercial management or construction-related qualification, or equivalent professional experience.
If you are an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor or Senior Commercial Manager with strong NEC contract expertise and a background in transport infrastructure, apply now to support the delivery of important rail and highways projects.
