Description
We are seeking a Team Leader - Commercial Management & Quantity Surveying to provide commercial leadership across UK projects, managing end-to-end cost management services, and leading the India QS teams in coordination with UK counterparts.
The role demands a balance of technical expertise, team leadership, client interface capabilities, business development support, and capability building. A key expectation is to expand UK workshare, showcase team capabilities, and mentor future QS professionals.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing QS team through resource planning, mentorship, performance reviews, and workload allocation.
- Establish engagement models, SLAs, RACIs, and manage mobilisation and transitions with UK teams.
- Implement QA/QC gates,checklists, peer reviews, and senior sign-off,to ensure right-first-time outputs.
- Serve as the primary commercial interface for UK project leads, PMs, and designers.
- Conduct capability presentations including case studies, sample deliverables, and CostX/5D demos.
- Lead RIBA Stage 0–4 cost planning with benchmarking, allowances, and risk/optimism bias guidance.
- Oversee BoQ preparation to NRM/CESMM standards with measurement consistency and quality.
- Provide contractual leadership across NEC/JCT/FIDIC: compensation events, variations, risk, and change control.
- Direct cost reporting, CVRs, forecasts, cashflow analysis, and earned value insights.
- Drive procurement strategies, tender documentation, and commercial evaluations.
- Guide value engineering, life-cycle costing, and carbon-cost trade-off advisory.
- Promote risk identification, QRA interpretation, and maintenance of commercial risk registers.
- Support bid responses (SQ/PQQ/ITT), fee proposals, scopes, and mobilisation planning.
- Create account growth strategies with UK partners; track pipeline, revenue, margin, and win-rate.
- Champion CostX (2D/3D/5D), model-based take-off, and structured cost databases.
- Encourage data-driven reporting using advanced Excel and optional Power BI dashboards.
- Develop structured training covering NRM/CESMM, NEC/JCT, CostX, CVR, risk, and reporting standards.
- Mentor team members on UK standards and high-quality commercial advice.
- Align with RICS QS & Construction Pathway competencies.
- Uphold RICS Rules of Conduct.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying/Civil Engineering (Master’s preferred).
- 15–20 years of QS/Cost Management experience with substantial 5 years UK project exposure.
- Proven experience leading multi-project teams in a UK–India delivery model and interfacing with UK clients/consultants/contractors.
- Strong working knowledge of NEC/JCT (FIDIC familiarity is an advantage) and NRM/CESMM measurement norms.
- Evidence of delivering RIBA 0–4 cost planning, CVRs/Forecasting, Procurement and Change Control.
Tools & Technology
- CostX (advanced)
- MS Excel (Power Query/Pivots)
- Microsoft suite - PowerPoint, Word
- Exposure to 5D/BIM workflows, Power BI for dashboards