Description
Our Water business is seeking a Commercial Manager (quantity surveyor level) to work across our portfolio of projects and provide commercial leadership to multi-disciplinary teams; the role plays a crucial part in delivering key infrastructure for clients including the Environment Agency, tier 1 contractors, local authorities and water companies.
You will embed a strong project culture around commercial excellence, balanced with the need to satisfy client, staff and commercial expectations along with business operational performance. You'll be highly collaborative, a natural problem solver and well used to tackling the myriad challenges that complex infrastructure projects can present.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver commercial services to both internal and external clients across a variety of water and environmental sector projects.
- Provide risk and commercial advice during the bid and project lifecycle to assess performance and provide support to the wider business.
- Ensure suitable prospect governance is in place.
- With support from the finance team provide effective reporting and forecasting of the commercial performance of projects within the Water business.
- Carry out detailed analyses of projects and report on the issues and findings from both a commercial and financial perspective.
- Ensure changes are managed rigorously with a focus on commercial implications of change, manage commercial risk and opportunity generally.
- Ensure that activities meet both internal company standards and external requirements.
- Support the commercial team's business improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- A degree (or equivalent professional experience), in a relevant discipline.
- A background in quantity surveying AND project commercial management.
- Advanced MS Excel skills and confidence using similar tools to analyse, manage and report commercial data.
- Solid working knowledge of NEC 3/4 contract administration.
- The ability to produce clear, well-structured reports and deliver information confidently through presentations and meetings.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with clients, stakeholders and project teams.
- Experience planning project timescales, resources and commercial inputs, with the ability to monitor and report progress against programme and budget.
- An understanding of fee structures and cost drivers across different project stages, with the ability to support effective commercial decision-making (desirable but not essential).
- A mind that is open to the opportunities presented by the adoption of AI.