Senior QS​/Senior Commercial Manager - Rail & Highways

Senior Quantity Surveyor / Senior Commercial Manager with experience of working on either rail or highways projects required to join a rapidly growing client in Bristol.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing company that is making a real impact across some of the UK's most high-profile infrastructure programmes. Their success is built on their people, empowering individuals to think differently, challenge convention, and bring innovative solutions to complex projects.

If you have a strong understanding of the NEC suite of contracts, thrive on building trusted client relationships, and want to play a key role in delivering flagship projects, we'd love to hear from you.

• Lead the development, implementation and continual improvement of the Contract Management Strategy and associated improvement programme.
• Support contract management best practice by developing consistent standards, tools, templates, guidance and assurance processes.
• Manage and develop a team responsible for overseeing strategic contracts, providing leadership, coaching and expert commercial support.
• Establish proportionate governance, accountability and escalation arrangements for high-value and high-risk contracts.
• Lead post-award contract management activities, including mobilisation, performance reviews, risk registers, change control, KPI tracking and contract close-out.
• Provide senior oversight of NEC contracts, ensuring the effective management of early warnings, programmes, compensation events, payment processes and commercial risks.
• Work with contract owners and suppliers to address underperformance, manage variations and contractual entitlement, and secure value for money.
• Prepare portfolio-level reporting and provide clear commercial updates, recommendations and assurance to senior leaders and governance boards.

• Significant experience in quantity surveying and commercial management within the rail, highways, bus or wider transport infrastructure sector.
• Strong understanding and practical application of the NEC form of contract.
• Experience in post-award contract management, including mobilisation, change control, risk management and performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of compensation events, early warnings, programme management, payment mechanisms and contractual risk under NEC contracts.
• Ability to develop and implement commercial governance, assurance frameworks and contract management strategies.
  
  Experience of managing, coaching or supporting commercial and contract management teams.
• Strong analytical, reporting and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to provide commercial challenge and advice.
• Relevant quantity surveying, commercial management or construction-related qualification, or equivalent professional experience.