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Quantity Surveyor, In-Life Partner Management

Job Req ID: 33384

Posting Date: 15 Jun 2024

Function: Business Services & Operations

Unit: Openreach

Location:

Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits

Career Level – D

Location(s) – Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol or London

Why this job Matters

Working within Partner Management, you will be involved in a variety of contractual and technical activities which will control financial risk to all parties of the contracts. Through proactive contract management, you will ensure our Partners are paid in line with the contract provisions and are fulfilling their contractual obligations. Ultimately, you will be validating that Openreach are receiving a value for money outcome and all parties are adhering to commercial governance.

What you’ll be doing

Directly accountable to the Senior Manager for In-Life Commercial.

Deliverables

In-Life Commercial Management of all Agreements;

• End to end accountability for the Commercial Audit function across all Partners and Agreements, which is the recovery of incorrect spend identified via field and desktop audits and accountable for education both internally and externally to stop incorrect spend leaving the business.

• End to end accountability for the Non Standards function across all Partners and Agreements, which is the detailed assessment of spend not covered via contract charges including benchmarking against wider industry costs to ensure market competitiveness.

• Subject Matter Expert for our DFE (Departure From Estimate) governance processes and synthetic usage and point of contact for partner escalations, owning resolution to completion.

• Owning resolution of estimate blocks for Job Comp/Eng Comp to allow payments to be processed or challenged with partners.

• Provision of in-life Commercial Governance with enhanced education of our Partners and internal stakeholders to proactively avoid commercial issues and detrimental impact on cash flow for both Parties.

Relationships

Build great relationships across stakeholders within Partners, Procurement, Planning, Operational teams & finance (up to and including Director level);

• Close relationship with Openreach Partner Manager for holistic resolution of in-life issues and attendance at Partner Performance Review Boards where necessary.

• Direct relationship with Partner commercial teams and Commercial Director for resolution of contractual issues and cost recovery.

• Engage with Procurement and In-Life Change Team to implement change control for strategic resolution of contractual issues.

• Work with internal stakeholders to triage and own to conclusion in-life issues, challenging where appropriate.

• Develop briefings detailing key commercial issues for internal finance and operational teams and Partners using tightly controlled governance.

• Liaison with Partner Commercial Managers to ensure all cost recoveries are dealt with promptly.

• Liaison with Partner Commercial Managers to ensure all DFE, Non Standards and Commercial Audit issues are resolved efficiently and do not impact upon delivery.

• Share learning with Partner Commercial Managers for pan-partner issues.

• Interface with Sourcing before/during transition of new In-Life activity.

• Be a brilliant people manager.

Minimum essential skills required for the role

• Hold a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying or Similar and MRICS qualified.

• Have experience working within a civil engineering environment, ideally within the utilities sector.

• Have a detailed understanding of wider construction industry and regulations.

• Experience working in a partnering and/or collaborative environment.

• Proven people management and leadership experience

• Have a strong financial knowledge and practical experience of civil engineering technologies.

• Strong record of managing and influencing senior stakeholders.

• Excellent presentation skills across all modes: written, spoken, and visual. We expect confidence of expression and preparedness.

• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities and manage stakeholders accordingly.

• Ability to identify improvement opportunities and undertake base root cause analysis and benefit opportunity mapping.

• Must hold a full UK driving licence and willing to travel when required

Benefits

As well as offering a competitive base salary, you’ll also have a rewarding bonus scheme, access to equity schemes and an attractive pension offer.

We value different perspectives, skills and experiences. Diversity makes sense for us, our customers and our ambitions. We’re creating an inclusive working culture where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

About Openreach

We’re the nation’s number one broadband network and we build the connections that matter.

Our customers are the 640+ communications providers who sell phone, broadband and Ethernet services to homes and businesses and our mission is build the best digital future for the UK.

There’s over 33,000 of us across the country, and we have a vision that our workforce should represent the communities that we serve. Diversity and accessibility are important to both where we are now and where we’re going. We value every colleague and the contribution they make, because a diverse business is a stronger business.

We also want the best work-life balance for all our people, which is why we offer smart working. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution, so you’ll be able to discuss how smart working fits with your role during the recruitment process.

How to Apply

It's easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by step process. Don't worry if you need to make changes - you'll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page.

We’re creating an inclusive working culture where people from all backgrounds can succeed. We welcome applications from every community and we’re looking forward to receiving yours.