Commercial Lead

Are you a seasoned Quantity Surveying professional looking to make a real impact on major infrastructure projects? We're looking for a Commercial Lead to help shape, deliver, and safeguard multi-million-pound contracts within our Capital Programme. In this pivotal role, you'll take ownership of producing, managing, and executing high-value contracts (£200m-£300m annually across the team). You'll be the expert our Project Managers, QS teams, and senior stakeholders turn to-ensuring accuracy, compliance, risk management, and commercial success across a diverse portfolio. What you'll be doing

• Leading end-to-end contract creation, review, negotiation, and execution
• Providing specialist QS and contractual advice across long-term capital and customer projects
• Collaborating with project teams (PMs, Designers, Planners, QSs) to ensure seamless delivery
• Managing risk registers, change control, pricing, and dispute resolution
• Producing high-quality commercial reports and guiding stakeholders on NEC3 contract interpretation
• Supporting tender analysis, activity schedules and commercial governance
  
  Strong Quantity Surveying background with experience handling complex, high-value contracts
• Expertise in contract writing, negotiation, and dispute management
• Degree in QS or similar (or extensive experience) + professional membership (RICS, CIOB, ICES etc.)
• Confident communicator with sharp analytical, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills
• Advanced user of Word, Excel, and ideally PowerPoint & SAP
• IOSH certificate is a bonus