At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors while driving commercial excellence.
- Company: Dynamic construction firm with a focus on growth and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and long-term career progression.
- Other info: Opportunity to develop your career in a growing business.
- Why this job: Influence commercial strategy in a supportive environment with a stable project pipeline.
- Qualifications: Experience in quantity surveying and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 70000 £ per year.
Job Type: Permanent.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Head of Commercial, you will provide leadership and governance across the commercial team, ensuring robust commercial controls, contractual compliance and strong financial performance across multiple projects.
Rather than managing individual projects, you'll focus on developing the commercial team, driving best practice and ensuring commercial consistency across the division.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Controllers.
- Drive commercial excellence, accountability and continuous improvement.
- Review commercial performance, forecasts, risks and opportunities across live projects.
- Ensure compliance with NEC, JCT and other construction contracts.
- Maximise commercial opportunities while maintaining strong client relationships.
- Oversee variation management, compensation events, extensions of time and contractual matters.
- Support cash flow forecasting, margin protection and debt management.
- Ensure commercial processes, governance and reporting are delivered consistently.
- Identify commercial risks and provide strategic support to senior leadership.
- Contribute to the achievement of divisional revenue and profitability targets.
About You
You will be a commercially focused professional with strong leadership skills and a proven ability to manage high‑performing commercial teams.
- You’ll Ideally Have
- Experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor or Managing Quantity Surveyor within construction, modular construction, offsite manufacturing, plant hire or related sectors.
- Strong knowledge of NEC, JCT and framework contracts.
- Excellent commercial acumen and contractual knowledge.
- Experience managing variations, commercial risk and project profitability.
- Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.\l
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- A Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent qualification would be advantageous.
- What’s on Offer
- Competitive salary.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Long‑term career progression.
- Opportunity to influence commercial strategy within a growing business.
- Supportive and collaborative working environment.
- Stable pipeline of projects across the UK.
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We think you need these skills to ace Managing Quantity Surveyor in Brandesburton
Leadership Skills
Commercial Acumen
Contractual Knowledge (NEC, JCT)
Risk Management
Project Profitability Management
Stakeholder Management
Coaching and Mentoring Skills
