Graduate Commercial Manager

The consultancy environment can be very fast paced with opportunities emerging at very short notice that will require a flexible, agile approach to delivering excellence in consultancy services and meeting or exceeding client requirements. You'll work with specialists across all the main areas, health & safety, environment, design/engineering, construction, programme, and project management as well as quantity surveying/commercial colleagues. You'll get to know what makes our highways and other national infrastructure tick, why it needs quality quantity surveyors/commercial management and how to deliver that as part of a project. Rotations within the first 2 years as a highways graduate in Commercial could include:

• Working with our Commercial team in the Head office
• Working with our Commercial Managers on live projects
• Supporting tender work
• Assisting the Commercial Director and Heads of Commercial with bespoke work packages
  
  Your written and verbal presentation skills must be of a high standard.
• Be able to clearly demonstrate your ability to analyse and distill information.
• Strong report-writing skills are a key requirement of this role.
• Have strong client interpersonal skills; it is important that you enjoy the prospect of client engagement whether in workshops, training sessions, one-to-one meetings or simply networking.
• The ability to get people to work with you, resolve problems and reach agreement
• A focus on getting things done even when it feels difficult, to meet deadlines and targets, feel comfortable working with both complex numerical and technical language and information
The highways environment can be very fast paced with opportunities emerging at very short notice that will require a flexible, agile approach to delivering excellence in consultancy services and meeting or exceeding client requirements. You'll work with specialists across all the main areas, health & safety, environment, design/engineering, construction, programme, and project management as well as quantity surveying/commercial colleagues. You'll get to know what makes our highways and other national infrastructure tick, why it needs quality quantity surveyors/commercial management and how to deliver that as part of a project.