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Commercial Manager
Location: London (Hybrid – minimum 3 days in the office)
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Car/Car Allowance + Flexible Benefits
Freedom has an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager (Project Commercial Lead) to take commercial responsibility for a major c£190m project in London. This key role will provide strategic commercial leadership, governance, and reporting, working closely with senior leadership and managing a commercial team delivering one of Freedom’s largest projects.
Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:
- Lead all commercial activities across a high-value (£190m) project, ensuring robust commercial governance and compliance.
- Manage and develop a team of Senior Quantity Surveyors and Quantity Surveyors, ensuring consistent commercial standards.
- Lead NEC3/NEC4 contract administration, risk management, change control and compensation events.
- Oversee subcontractor procurement, negotiation, contract management and final accounts.
- Produce accurate CVRs and commercial reports for the Senior Leadership Team.
- Provide strategic commercial insight, supporting accurate forecasting, cost control and financial risk management.
- Ensure commercial processes align with Freedom policies, procedures and project governance.
- Support programme delivery through effective collaboration with project, engineering and operational teams.
- Maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships through professional communication and commercial integrity.
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What We’re Looking For:
Essential:
- Strong experience in commercial management or senior quantity surveying roles.
- Strong NEC3/NEC4 contract experience.
- Demonstrable experience leading a commercial team of 5+ SQS/QS.
- Experience producing and presenting CVRs and reporting to Senior Leadership.
- BSc/MSc in Quantity Surveying or a related commercial discipline.
Desirable:
- RICS or equivalent professional membership.
- Civils or groundworks project experience.
Benefits:
- Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
- 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
- Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
- Private Medical Insurance
- Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible benefits including Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes
- Personal development programme
Next Steps:
As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.
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We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
About Us:
Freedom are part of the NG Bailey Group, one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.
Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.
Progression is something we value and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.
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