Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager – Hogsmill STW

Location: Hogsmill STW, Surrey

Hours: 45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired

Sponsorship: We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

About the role

Join us as a Commercial Manager on one of Kier's flagship wastewater infrastructure schemes. You'll lead commercial, financial and contractual management for the Hogsmill STW upgrade project, ensuring effective cost control, risk management, and commercial governance. This Thames Water Major Project operates under an IChemE Burgundy Book contract, offering you the opportunity to make a real impact on vital public services. You'll work within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team environment where your commercial expertise will drive project success from pre-construction through to final account.

Responsibilities

• Lead all commercial aspects of the project, ensuring compliance with contract conditions and providing strategic advice to the project leadership team

• Manage and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors, setting objectives and fostering a high-performance culture centred on collaboration and accuracy

• Establish and maintain robust cost management processes including forecasting, budget reporting and leading value engineering initiatives

• Oversee procurement, tendering and manage subcontract accounts through valuations, variations and final accounts

• Produce monthly commercial reports and maintain risk and opportunity registers with proactive mitigation actions

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience on UK water capital programmes with MEICA or process engineering project exposure

• Relevant qualifications in Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management, ideally RICS qualified

• Strong understanding of contract management, change control processes and commercial governance in a regulated utility environment

• Proven experience managing a commercial team and strong negotiation skills

• Skilled in cost forecasting, financial reporting, subcontract management and ability to collaborate effectively across design, engineering and planning functions

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.