Commercial Quantity Surveyor

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.  

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. 

Home Decarbonisation - We’re working to eliminate fuel poverty, providing end-to-end management in energy efficiency and carbon reduction. Our team works closely with homeowners and local authority partners to provide home energy advice to prepare for Net Zero.

This is a hybrid role based in our Bury St Edmunds office with a requirement for frequent travel to our offices in Sutton and Aylesbury.

Want to come and be a part of it? 

What will you be doing?  

AgilityEco is a leading provider of domestic energy efficiency and retrofit programmes, delivering warmer, healthier and more energy-efficient homes whilst supporting Great Britain's transition to Net Zero. 

Working with Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Energy Suppliers and other public and private sector organisations, AgilityEco manages complex delivery programmes across Great Britain. As our portfolio continues to grow, we are investing in stronger commercial disciplines to improve profitability, strengthen commercial governance and support sustainable growth. 

The Commercial Quantity Surveyor plays a critical role in protecting and optimising the commercial performance of AgilityEco's fully managed delivery programmes. Working closely with Delivery, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Group Procurement, Commercial and Business Development teams, the role is responsible for cost management, commercial reporting, Cost Value Reconciliations (CVRs), change control, variation recovery and ensuring robust commercial controls throughout programme delivery. 

Acting as the commercial interface between Client Delivery, Installations and Finance, the role will reconcile client delivery plans against actual execution, monitor contractual and financial performance, identify commercial risks and opportunities, and ensure commercial decisions are underpinned by robust analysis and evidence. 

A key aspect of the role is taking commercial ownership of AgilityEco's delivery cost base and creating a continuous feedback loop between programme delivery and future work winning. Through commercial insight, benchmarking and lessons learnt, the role will help ensure future bids, pricing strategies and delivery models become progressively stronger and more commercially robust. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Cost Management and Commercial Controls
• Commercial Modelling & Scenario Planning
• Commercial Intelligence & Work Winning
• Commercial Governance
• Ensuring Measures of Success are Achieved
• Establishing, Building and Maintaining Strong Working Relationships with the Senior Management Team 

What you’ll bring  

Essential:

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline
• Proven Quantity Surveying experience within construction, infrastructure, housing retrofit, utilities or similar programme-based environments
• Strong working knowledge of NEC and/or JCT forms of contract, with the ability to interpret contractual obligations, manage change control and administer commercial provisions through project delivery
• Experience producing Cost Value Reconciliations (CVRs) and commercial reporting
• Experience working with subcontractors, supplier commercial management and cost benchmarking
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Advanced Excel and commercial reporting skills
• Ability to analyse complex commercial data and translate insight into practical business recommendations
• Ability to influence operational, commercial and financial stakeholders
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable:

• Membership of RICS (or working towards)
• Experience within efficiency, retrofit, housing, or public sector programmes
• Experience working alongside central procurement functions
• Experience supporting strategic pricing, commercial modelling or bid reviews

Person Specification

• Commercially astute with a strong financial and analytical mindset
• Naturally inquisitive and driven by continuous improvement
• Comfortable challenging constructively and influencing decision-making at all levels
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
• Able to build credibility across operational, commercial and finance teams
• Proactive, self motivated and comfortable working in a fast paced environment
• Collaborative, with the ability to bring together multiple stakeholders to achieve commercial outcomes
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage competing priorities

What’s in it for you?  

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year 
• Employee assistance programme 
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts 
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave  
• Reward and recognition scheme 

In addition, this role offers; 

• 25 days plus additional 1 day per year of service up to 30 days and bank holidays
• 2 paid volunteer days per year

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. 

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. 

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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