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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Job Requirements:

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. If you are an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor or Senior Commercial Manager with strong NEC contract expertise and a background in transport infrastructure, apply now to support the delivery of important rail and highways projects