Senior Commercial Manager

About the Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Commercial Manager for our Lower Thames Crossing project. The Lower Thames Crossing is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects, connecting Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. It will be the greenest road ever built in the UK, creating six times more green space than road, and will nearly double road capacity over the river east of London, reducing congestion and giving millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time.

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you will report to and deputise for the Project Commercial Director on the Lower Thames Crossing Roads North, valued at over £1.2 Bn. You will be responsible for the financial management of this major, complex project through the development phase and through construction.

• See the bigger picture and prioritise business opportunities.
• Take initiative to respond to market and customer requirements.
• Understand how economic factors affect the construction industry.
• Manage the feedback of commercial data to Planning and Estimating.
• Review tenders and cost data.
• Manage the preparation of target cost for project planning.
• Formulate management plans for resource procurement.
• Apply legislation and liaise with legal experts.
• Manage and report commercial risk and opportunity.
• Manage disallowed cost.

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
• Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES, or CIOB.

• Communication.
• Teamwork.
• Leadership.
• Strategic change management.
• Achievement focus.
• Business and customer awareness.
• Promotes organisational aims & objectives.
• Manages customer needs.
• Manages opportunities & threats.

• Attractive salary.
• Pension savings schemes.
• Other Balfour Beatty staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers, etc).
• Refer a friend bonus scheme.
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available via the careers portal.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family-friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more.

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes, including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do, working safely, reducing carbon emissions, and adding social value to the communities within which we work.

We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We also offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.