Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Summary of Role:
Reports to Project Manager and (Sector / Project / Senior) Commercial (Manager / Director).
Main responsibility:
* Lead the commercial function on the project or within the sector for which they are responsible.
* Ensure the timely provision of accurate commercial reports and data to the business.
* Pursue own professional development and provide guidance and support to develop other commercial staff
* Ensure compliance and adherence of the project or sector team with the processes and procedures of the company.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
* Develop a good understanding of the wider aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental law affecting a Facilities business.
* Have a full understanding of contracts and project delivery to ensure the very best commercial outcomes for the projects on which you work.
* Ensure the implementation of the requirements of Health Safety, Quality and Environmental procedures and conduct all duties in a manner consistent with these.
* Highly competent in the application of IT skills to financial problems and the production of project documentation.
* Maintain a wide knowledge of business systems to manage and present business information
* Make best use of knowledge management systems
* Use the CAFM platform to demonstrate our value to our clients.
* Share best practice and knowledge of using the IT platforms with the wider Commercial/Project team.
* Act upon the Management Information available from our IT records to drive commercial improvement through the project.
* Develop awareness of wider business plan objectives
* Provide input and assist Divisional and Winning work teams to develop proposals to secure new opportunities
* Develop an understanding of the wider finance and property issues that may affect the Facilities business.
* Promote knowledge share and learning to develop an innovative team philosophy
* Be a lean management champion and constantly drive the project teams to look for better ways of delivering the service.
* Identify, manage, reduce and drive out unnecessary costs and inefficient activities
* Maximise cash flow through timely preparation of valuations, submission of invoices and receipt of payment
* Maintain a high level understanding of planning and programming to ensure accurate progress reporting
* Work with supply chain to promote and measure continuous improvement in terms of cost, quality and learning of all parties
* Anticipate and plans change in commercial resource within a project
* Establish and maintain accurate and robust reporting structures and monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and / or exceed targets
* Develop comprehensive understanding of financial models including cashflow turnover forecasts and project profit / loss statements
* Demonstrates and maintains a high level of commercial and technical knowledge and works closely with the delivery team to review techniques and solutions to meet business and customer needs
* Ensure that commercial position is protected using in depth understanding and experience of contractual, commercial, insurance and legal processes
* Early identification of business risks in projects and ensuring that risk management, risk registers and contingency are in place to manage a minimise risk
* Manage prompt preparation and settlement of final accounts.
* Ensuring that all materials and suppliers are procured in an efficient manner with capable organisations in accordance with procurement policy and procedures and ensure appropriate records are kept.
* Comprehensive understanding of the requirements of the quality policy and procedures and how these are applied to individuals own role.
* Ability to develop new ideas and developing it into a different approach
* Establish commercial processes and procedures on projects in order to maximise returns in terms of profit and service level
* Close out project efficiently using a high degree of understanding and working knowledge of project close out processes
* Takes responsibility for management of commercial resources
* Establish meaningful goals and objectives
* Identify and develop the maximum potential of the commercial team
* Have a full understanding of TUPE and pension regulations and their impact on our business.
* Have a clear understanding of the issues associated with managing and running labour intensive projects.
* Have measures and benchmarks in place to understand productivity and outputs from our teams.
* Delegate responsibility to lowest appropriate level
* Actively researches issues to identify alternatives actions and implements optimum solution
* Makes decision based on sound research
* Maintain and extend relationships and contacts with customers and consultants to identify new potential business opportunities and feed back to the Business Development team
* Take a key role in negotiations with internal and external customers in developing and achieving mutually satisfactory outcomes
* Communicates accurately, concisely and in a timely manner, whilst demonstrating effective listening
* Able to communicate effectively to suit different audiences
* Uses wider business systems to produce accurate reports
* Undertakes the chairing and/or participation in Meetings in an effective manner
CSCS: Desired
Qualifications Required: degree
Professional Membership Required: RICS/CIOB
Relevant Experience Required: Construction biased, refurbishment and FM experience if possible
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