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Location

Nottinghamshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Your new role

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join our Commercial and Procurement directorate!

This role can be flexibly based in one of our UK offices, however frequent travel to either Nottingham or Birmingham around twice a week will be a requirement. We have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/agile home working.

As part of your role, you will provide expert commercial and contract management services to all Operations contracts throughout the life cycle of a project. Provide commercial advice and support to Operations and manage own portfolio of work in the value of £10-20M per year.

What you’ll be leading on

Provide contractual advice to the business and the project team. Whilst also managing the supply chain.
Day to day contract and commercial management including managing communication and notifications to timescales, payment assessment, managing and valuing change and early warnings and review and agree final account.
Cost planning and budget estimating and review and challenge contractor estimates.
Monitor actual costs against budget and prepare contract forecasts, identification of risks and opportunities to project spend/ budgets.
Act as a line manager and mentor to Assistant Quantity Surveyors, Graduates and Apprentices and provide on-going support in their professional development.
Manage own your own portfolio if works and leading on all commercial matters in scheme buildability meetings and scheme collaborative planning sessions.

To be successful you'll need

BSc (Hons) in Commercial Management or Quantity Surveying.
Member of a relevant professional body or must demonstrate relevant breadth and depth of experience working as a QS within a relevant industry.
Experience with successfully delivering a variety of projects using different forms of contract (NEC preferable).
Experience in mentoring and training junior Commercial team members, and supporting their professional development.
Excellent commercial awareness and negotiation skills and can demonstrate delivering solutions to complex commercial issues.

A bit about us

There’s never been a better time to join our Commercial and Procurement team.

We’re a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. You’ll be involved in the design of our modern, progressive contracts and partnerships, negotiating best commercial terms, galvanizing innovation and producing smart cost estimates and plans. Building in every opportunity to ensure that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our road network.

Want to know more?

For a copy of the Job Description please contact [email protected] quoting reference '#4962

ABOUT US

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

Right to work check
3 year employment history references
DBS criminal record check
Social media and adverse journalism check
Driving licence check (if applicable)
Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires

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