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About The Role
About The Role
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Commercial Manager for our Lower Thames Crossing project.
What you'll be doing
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 £1.2Bn. You will be Responsible for the financial management of this major, complex project through the development phase and through construction.
* An ability to see bigger picture and prioritise business opportunities.
* Willing to take initiative to respond to market/customer requirements.
* Understands how economic factors that affects the construction industry.
* Manages the feedback of commercial data to Planning and Estimating.
* The ability to review tenders & cost data.
* To manage the preparation of Target Cost for a Project Planning
* Formulation of management plans for resource procurement.
* Application of legislation and ability to liaise with legal experts
* Management and reporting of Commercial Risk and Opportunity
* Management of disallowed cost
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualifications Are Essential
* BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent
* Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES or CIOB
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
* Communication
* Teamwork
* Leadership
* Strategic change Management
* Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)
* Business and Customer Awareness
* Promotes organisational aims & objectives
* Manages customer needs
* Manages opportunities & threats
Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -
* An attractive salary
* Pension savings schemes
* A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
* Refer a friend bonus scheme
* Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family friendly policies which include 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…
About Us
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 orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty 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 is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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 are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Sales and Business Development
* Industries
Construction
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