Quantity Surveyor Manager - Refresh, Food Service and Trading Projects

Job Title Quantity Surveyor Manager - Refresh, Food Service and Trading Projects Location Asda House

Employment Type

Full time Contract Type Permanent Hours Per Week 37.5 Salary Competitive salary plus benefits Category Construction Project Delivery - SF Closing Date 9 July 2026 “Find your role” The Commercial Team play a key role within the Asda Property Construction team, providing robust commercial management across new builds, refits, maintenance programmes, and capital investment projects. The QS ensures projects are delivered with strong cost governance, value for money, and effective risk management while supporting Asda’s strategic property priorities.

This role is responsible for leading and developing a team of internal and external Quantity Surveyors/Commercial Analysts to ensure strong commercial management across Asda’s refresh, food service and trading projects programmes. You will oversee cost planning, procurement governance, programme-level risk management, supplier performance, and continuous improvement in commercial processes. You will act as the key commercial partner to Project Managers, Construction Managers, Functional leads, Finance partners, and external supply chain leaders.

This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder influence, and the ability to manage complex commercial outcomes across multiple projects simultaneously. You will be part of a large cross functional team, so you will have a strong, collaborative work ethic and enjoy developing and building working relationships. This role provides many opportunities to further develop your behavioural capabilities, providing plenty of exposure within the business and with our key stakeholders.

You Will:
1. Team Leadership & Development Lead, coach, and develop a team of internal QS/Commercial Analysts. Set clear objectives, ensure performance management, and build commercial capability within the team. Support workload allocation, prioritisation, and development planning. Foster a collaborative, values-driven culture aligned to Asda ways of working.
2. Commercial Strategy & Governance Oversee feasibilities and budget creation for all projects managed by your team. Ensure adherence to Asda commercial governance, audit requirements, and contract frameworks. Own commercial reporting at programme level, ensuring accuracy and insight for senior stakeholders and boards. Drive continuous improvement and standardisation of commercial tools and processes.
3. Procurement & Supplier Management Work closely with procurement to support in identifying the required procurement strategy across your work streams. Ensure robust rate alignment, benchmarking, and value-for-money evaluation. Build strong supplier relationships, driving performance, compliance, and commercial discipline.
4. Project Delivery Oversight Provide commercial leadership across multiple high-value projects. Escalate risks, cost pressures, or opportunities early, ensuring mitigation strategies are in place. Review and sign-off valuations, variations, change controls, and final accounts managed by your team. Ensure programmes are delivered within approved funding with accurate forecasting and cost control.
5. Stakeholder Partnership Partner with senior leaders across Property, Finance, PMO, as well as functional project leads. Present commercial insights and recommendations to support strategic decisions. Build deep, trust-based relationships with contractors, consultants, and strategic suppliers.
6. Continuous Improvement & Value Creation Lead initiatives to enhance benchmarking, cost modelling, data quality, and digital reporting. Identify process gaps and implement improvements across commercial governance. “ Let's find out about you.” Strong Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management experience, ideally client or consultant side or in a retail/property environment. Strong knowledge of cost planning, tendering, and contract administration. Proven ability to manage budgets, analyse commercial data, and control project cost performance.

Experience with Schedule of Rates, frameworks, or standard forms of contract. Demonstrable leadership experience—coaching…