Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Cardiff Company: Accenture Career level: Specialist

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our growing team at Soben. You'll play a key role in helping us achieve our ambitious growth targets, supporting one of our key Construction clients in the region. You will be responsible for developing and implementing key procurement and commercial strategies across a range of projects in our business.

Key responsibilities

• Provide pre and post contract quantity surveying and commercial support on a range of one-off projects and programmes of work
• Predominantly work on compensatory planting and biodiversity net gain projects
• Be responsible for detailed financial management and reporting
• Work alongside the Compensatory Planting Project Manager to negotiate and manage terms of compensatory planting and biodiversity net gain contracts
• Manage procurement events and ITTs including initial enquiry, contract negotiation and agreement, post contract management and agreement of final account
• Assist with negotiation and management of financial terms of land agreements
• Liaise with all capital projects contracts managers to ensure all compensatory planting and biodiversity net gain contracts are delivered within project budgeting and cost recovery via Ofgem allowances in so far as possible
• Support the delivery of departmental KPIs and objectives such as savings in total cost of ownership, value engineering and safety performance
• Report to the Procurement & Commercial Manager or Senior Contract Manager
• Support the Project Manager and Procurement & Commercial Manager/Senior Contract Manager to deliver strategies and contracts, providing robust post contract commercial management

Required experience and qualifications

• Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years' experience of managing contracts on projects or programmes of work of £5–£100M
• Working knowledge of relevant conditions of contract, primarily NEC3 suite
• Experience in estimating, cost and budget management, contract administration and payment and expenditure management
• Professional qualifications – MRICS desirable
• Strong commercial acumen with well-developed interpersonal, problem-solving, communication and negotiation skills
• Demonstrable experience delivering large projects and programmes of work
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, under pressure whilst delivering quality output
• Keen eye to detail and ability to work methodically through demanding workload
• Ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders and influence and negotiate with users outside your own sphere of responsibility

What we offer

• Access to world-class resources and technology, enhancing how we deliver capital projects
• Involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals
• Career development at scale, with exposure to international clients and cutting-edge project environments
• A platform for innovation, as we continue to challenge traditional consultancy models and lead digital transformation

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.

Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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