Quantity Surveyor

Main purpose of the role
To provide commercial management of Cornerstone suppliers and prevention of overspend against CAPEX/OPEX costs. Ensure alignment to Cornerstone budgets and financial processes whilst assessing and authorising spend in line with agreed Cornerstone contracts and rates.

Key Responsibilities
•Service Order Request Quote / Pricing Receive incoming business SOR demand, assess scope of the request and price either using standard contract rate cards (where applicable) or through direct supplier negotiation (where existing agreements are not in place).
•Raise purchase orders ensuring correct use of finance programme and product coding to enable future reporting and supplier instruction.
•Build Assessment Pack Quote Preparation and pricing of BAPs containing Acquisition, Design and Build costs and MSA Service Fee and issue to Customers for agreement.
•Management of Customer's BAP queries.
•Supplier Valuation Management Commercial assessment and authorisation of supplier claims and applications for payment. Upon receipt of submission, use correct contract rates to approve fees where work is complete and evidence in place or reject where not to prevent overspend.
•Final Account Agreement Agreement of build final accounts by assessment of work done against agreed schedule of rates using direct negotiations where standard rates are not in place. Prevent over-spend and allow future business spend forecasting.
•Cost Control Ensure compliance with agreed contracts and rates at all times. Assessment of change requests that may drive scope change for ongoing instructions and commercially manage that impact through the PO/finance systems in order to control work in progress and commitment.
•Data Management Management of all commercial data by recording within tools and systems provided to allow reporting and forecasting.
•Compliance & Security To support and contribute actively to health and safety, environmental, business continuity and information security arrangements that meets our obligations to our customers.

Person Specification
Experience (technical, managerial, industry). (i) Required (minimum) - Background in financial or commercial industries, ideally in the telecoms sector. (ii) Desired - Telecoms Quantity Surveying experience

Education level / Qualifications (professional, vocational). (i) Required (minimum) - 2 A levels grade A-C, and 5 GCSEs grade A-C including Maths and English. (ii) Desired - Quantity Surveying Bsc (Hons)

Skills / Knowledge - Required (minimum)
•Excellent IT skills, able to use Microsoft Office
•Logical, analytical approach, and good numerical ability
•Communications and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate with a wide variety of
•people, including internal and external stakeholders
•Good negotiation skills
•Reporting and presentation skills
•Able to work effectively in a team
•Accuracy & attention to detail
•Ability to work in fluid, high-pressure environments and to tight deadlines Intermediate Level Excel
Skills / Knowledge - Desired
•Intermediate Level Excel
•Basic Level MS Access

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