Job Title - Senior Commercial Manager

Location - York

Rates - £400-£500 per day (subject to tax and NI deductions)

IR35 Status - In scope

About the role / project:

Are you a Senior Commercial Manager / Quantity Surveyor who is ambitious to achieve your career potential? Then why not join our team as a Senior Commercial Manager and we'll make sure you get the experience and personalized learning support you need to take your career as far as you want it to go.

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you will be involved in some of the UK's most complex and stimulating projects that are diverse and technically demanding, to provide competent and professional quantity surveying expertise supporting Capital Programme Investment Delivery across a number of key projects.

Initially the main focus of the role would be the Remodelling of Kings Cross Station. This high profile project is in a fast paced environment where each day brings new challenges offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a significant and lasting contribution to the life of London and the country as a whole.

Whilst rail experience is advantageous, we are interested in talking to candidates with the right construction industry and quantity surveying experience at this level, to be able to leverage and improve their skills and aptitude to achieve best in class commercial performance.

Upon appointment, you will be based in York with the expectation to travel to Kings Cross Station. However once the project fully migrates to London Kings Cross there will be a requirement to attend meetings York as required.

What you will do:

Responsible for establishing and implementing appropriate commercial strategies including effective project cost management and providing feedback into subsequent procurement processes.

Responsible for the commercial management of framework agreements and supporting contracts leading the commercial review of contractor delivery, attending valuation & progress meetings as necessary.

Initiate estimating and risk & value management of projects in a timely manner during the project life-cycle, recommending appropriate mitigating actions on commercial/risk events at the earliest opportunity.

Lead the negotiation of all prices under existing contracts/framework agreements

Responsible for monitoring and managing all project reporting

Lead and deploy the commercial team in the management of all live projects ensuring they are adequately resourced from a commercial perspective.

Provide pro-active expertise, advice and governance on all contract/scope changes in accordance with change control systems

Manage all commercial correspondence and contractual notices

Identify emerging problems, report contractual claims & support in the management and resolution of legal and/or commercial disputes

Your experience will include:

Essential

Knowledge of railway and construction industry conditions of contract.

Educated to degree level or equivalent and professional qualification.

Experienced negotiator.

Experience of resolution of construction contract disputes

Relevant railway and/or construction experience.

Knowledge of railway commercial contract management.

Desirable

Experience of managing and developing a team of staff.

Good communication skills both written and oral.

Experience of contractors accounts.

What you'll get in return

Network Rail (powered by Capita), understand what it is like to work as a contractor and do everything they can to make it a simple process for you - this includes a dedicated Onboarding and extension teams and access to a web based timesheet portal giving you an ability to access and submit your timesheets wherever you are.

About our client - Network Rail

Network Rail is at the operational centre of the railway and playing a key role in a rapidly evolving industry. We are responsible for rebuilding Britain's railway infrastructure and are managing some of the biggest and most complex engineering programmes in Europe. Over the next five years we will be spending around £23 billion to maintain and upgrade every aspect of an infrastructure that comprises 21,000 miles of track, 2,500 stations, 9,000 level crossings, 40,000 bridges and tunnels, and signalling and power for the movement of 25,000 trains every day.

What we hope you will do next

Help us find out more about you by completing our short application process - Click apply now. You will then be directed to a Capita owned microsite that will assist you with your application. Once completed you will then be contacted by the relevant recruiter.

Network Rail welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or other irrelevant factor. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

Network Rail is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.