Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

Job Req ID: 58858

Closing Date: 7th June

Location: Manchester

About the role

We are seeking a commercially astute Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our supportive client-side organisation, working alongside a highly skilled construction team. This role offers the opportunity to further develop your career while supporting cost management and construction procurement activities, managing multiple priorities, and contributing to the successful delivery of projects in a fast-paced environment.

This role offers the opportunity to move into (or build upon) a client-side position, working across a portfolio of projects with real ownership and visibility. You will play a key role in managing cost, procurement and tendering activities, while benefiting from structured support and development to broaden your commercial skillset.

Support will be provided towards achieving an appropriate professional qualification with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), including mentoring and structured development to support your progression.

What you’ll be doing

• End-to-end commercial delivery of construction and infrastructure projects, from planning through to completion, across a portfolio of capital programmes.
• Manage full tendering and procurement processes, including strategy development, supplier engagement, evaluation, recommendation, and contract award, ensuring alignment to programme objectives.
• Provide robust cost and financial management, covering budgeting, cost planning, forecasting, cashflow management, reporting, and final account close-out.
• Administer contracts and manage commercial interfaces with suppliers and partners, including change control, variations, performance monitoring, and dispute avoidance.
• Identify and manage commercial risks and opportunities through proactive risk management, governance frameworks, and value optimisation.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across internal teams and the supply chain, providing clear commercial insight and influencing successful outcomes.
• Ensure commercial governance, compliance, and continuous improvement across procurement and commercial processes, enhancing consistency, efficiency, and overall delivery performance.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Proactive approach with a strong willingness to learn and develop within the construction industry.
• Analytical mindset with an interest in contracts, commercial processes, and construction supply chains.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with a proven ability to prioritise and coordinate multiple competing tasks simultaneously while maintaining accuracy and efficiency in fast-paced, high-pressure project environments.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience in quantity surveying or cost management within construction environments, with strong commercial awareness and cost control capability.
• Ability to manage end-to-end tendering processes and support procurement activities across project portfolios.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.