Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a

Senior Commercial Manager within the

Commercial team . This role will be based on site in

Birmingham .Role Responsibilities;Understand the impact of commercial and technical changes at strategic level within the customer’s business industry / sectorHas a high degree of understanding and working knowledge of project start up procedures and is actively involved in the implementation of those procedures when requiredProvide commercial support to tendering process when required.Establish and maintain accurate and robust reporting structures and monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and / or exceed targets Uses a understanding of planning and programming, and a detailed knowledge of financial reporting to provide challenge to the rest of the project team to ensure robust and honest progress reporting.Identify, manage, reduce and drive out unnecessary costs and inefficient activities Monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and / or exceed targets, including but not limited to the scheduling of labour resources.Experienced requiredBSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.Member or Fellow of RICS, ICES or CIOBPrevious experience on NEC form of contractAn ability to see bigger picture and prioritise business opportunities.Willing to take initiative to respond to market/customer requirements.Ability to recruit, lead and co-ordinate a commercial team.The ability to review tenders and cost data.Application of legislation and ability to liaise with legal experts.Establish client supply chain requirements and advise on alternative forms of contract and procurement arrangements.To be able to report and explain the commercial progress to senior management.Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.Benefits of working with us• Flexible working available for some roles• Travel allowance for eligible candidates• Family friendly leave policies• Health risk assessments• Access to employee assistance programmes• Access to annual flu vaccinationsAbout Balfour Beatty VINCIBalfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:• 9.3km of viaducts• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels• 28 underbridges and 11 underpassesDiversity and InclusionBalfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality,Diversity and Inclusivity (EDandI) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.

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