Manager - Procurement and Commercial Strategy - Construction in London

The KPMG Major Projects Advisory Team sits within the Infrastructure Advisory Group and is part of the Deal Advisory function. Deal Advisory partners with clients to give them the confidence they need to make key decisions for their businesses. The team supports clients to look across their business and outside it, at where they can add value – and that could mean strategy, integration, separation, value creation or mergers and acquisitions.

KPMG is one of the world’s largest and most respected consultancies. We’ve supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We’ve proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in construction. As a true market leader, we boast an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names. We are ranked Gold in Construction & Infrastructure by the Financial Times UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2025.

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO (Senior Responsible Owner) at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.

This role is for an innovative professional at manager level with procurement experience in major construction projects and programmes. You will work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of the full project and programme lifecycle in the construction industry and their procurement/commercial acumen to solve complex problems.

You will be providing advice to a broad range of clients on many different matters, helping them to achieve successful outcomes through planning and implementing innovative and robust procurement and commercial interventions.

This role is ideally suited to those with post-qualification experience in procurement and commercial management/quantity surveying gained on very high-value, complex major construction projects and programmes. The role requires experience with the following attributes:

• A good understanding of procurement in construction within a major project/programme context, across the whole lifecycle of an asset
• Experience in developing and implementing procurement strategies, commercial strategies, and supply-chain strategies for major capital projects/programmes
• A good understanding of procurement law and regulations
• Familiarity with industry-standard contract forms such as the NEC suite
• A good understanding of issues which impact project performance
• Ability to set out a clear approach to tackling a new challenge in the most efficient manner
• Management of project teams to deliver client engagements
• Looking after financial aspects of an engagement with support and under supervision
• Ensuring we keep clients informed of costs and time incurred

Skills we’d love to see / Amazing Extras:

• Clear, concise, fact-based reporting
• A relevant professional qualification, such as MCIPS or MRICS
• Project/programme controls
• Earned value management
• Cost management, estimating and benchmarking
• Risk management
• Claims, disputes and dispute avoidance

We are open to talk to major projects advisory talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are: London Canary Wharf, Manchester, Birmingham.