Quantity Surveyor Manager - Refresh, Food Service and Trading ProjectsHead Office

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The Commercial Team play a key role within the Asda Property Construction team, providing robust commercial management across new builds, refits, maintenance programmes, and capital investment projects. The QS ensures projects are delivered with strong cost governance, value for money, and effective risk management while supporting Asda’s strategic property priorities.

This role is responsible for leading and developing a team of internal and external Quantity Surveyors/Commercial Analysts to ensure strong commercial management across Asda’s refresh, food service and trading projects programmes.

You will oversee cost planning, procurement governance, programme‑level risk management, supplier performance, and continuous improvement in commercial processes. You will act as the key commercial partner to Project Managers, Construction Managers, Functional leads, Finance partners, and external supply chain leaders.

This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder influence, and the ability to manage complex commercial outcomes across multiple projects simultaneously.

You will be part of a large cross functional team, so you will have a strong, collaborative work ethic and enjoy developing and building working relationships. This role provides many opportunities to further develop your behavioural capabilities, providing plenty of exposure within the business and with our key stakeholders.

You Will:

1. Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of internal QS/Commercial Analysts.

• Set clear objectives, ensure performance management, and build commercial capability within the team.

• Support workload allocation, prioritisation, and development planning.

• Foster a collaborative, values‑driven culture aligned to Asda ways of working.

2. Commercial Strategy & Governance

• Oversee feasibilities and budget creation for all projects managed by your team.

• Ensure adherence to Asda commercial governance, audit requirements, and contract frameworks.

• Own commercial reporting at programme level, ensuring accuracy and insight for senior stakeholders and boards.

• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation of commercial tools and processes.

3. Procurement & Supplier Management

• Work closely with procurement to support in identifying the required procurement strategy across your workstreams.

• Ensure robust rate alignment, benchmarking, and value‑for‑money evaluation.

• Build strong supplier relationships, driving performance, compliance, and commercial discipline.

4. Project Delivery Oversight

• Provide commercial leadership across multiple high‑value projects.

• Escalate risks, cost pressures, or opportunities early, ensuring mitigation strategies are in place.

• Review and sign‑off valuations, variations, change controls, and final accounts managed by your team.

• Ensure programmes are delivered within approved funding with accurate forecasting and cost control.

5. Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with senior leaders across Property, Finance, PMO, as well as functional project leads.

• Present commercial insights and recommendations to support strategic decisions.

• Build deep, trust‑based relationships with contractors, consultants, and strategic suppliers.

6. Continuous Improvement & Value Creation

• Lead initiatives to enhance benchmarking, cost modelling, data quality, and digital reporting.

• Identify process gaps and implement improvements across commercial governance.

“Let's find out about you.”

• Strong Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management experience, ideally client or consultant side or in a retail/property environment.

• Strong knowledge of cost planning, tendering, and contract administration.

• Proven ability to manage budgets, analyse commercial data, and control project cost performance.

• Experience with Schedule of Rates, frameworks, or standard forms of contract.

• Demonstrable leadership experience—coaching and developing a team.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, tight deadlines, and challenging cost targets.

• Strong Excel and financial reporting capability.

• Detail‑driven with strong commercial awareness.

• Able to operate in a fast‑paced environment and balance multiple projects.

• Collaborative and able to influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Committed to continuous improvement and delivering value for money.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves