Managing Surveyor

Ian Williams is proud to be adding a Managing Surveyor to its Birmingham based Commercial team within the Responsive workstreams. Following a prosperous year, underpinned by our new era of Senior leadership, we look ahead to sustainable future full of potential and opportunity.

Our Birmingham office is a hub of activity, collaboration, and creativity, with iwhub (centralised helpdesk) and all three Products (Capital, Response & Painting) operating here, making it one of our largest Business units in the company.

Taking full accountability for the commercial function of the Responsive Repairs and Void (vacant properties) works for our reputable housing clients, the Managing Surveyor will play an integral role in ensuring these services continue to be successful and profitable, whilst demonstrating value for money for our clients

We want to talk to commercially sound candidates who share in our core values; honesty, and integrity, as well as enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high performing commercial team of Quantity Surveyors and Trainee Surveyors.

Benefits:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme
• Car allowance of £7000, including a fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Annual leave entitlement, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
• Access to an employee assistance program to support employee’s health and wellbeing, as well as free financial and legal advice.

The Managing Surveyor role:

As a Managing Surveyor, you will actively work as part of the commercial team whilst also taking the lead with commercial decisions and reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability/commercial success and making improvements for the future.

Specific tasks will include:

• Developing and maintaining a high performing Surveying team to ensure delivery of contracts at or above, agreed profit performance.
• Overseeing and managing financial and technical aspects of the contract, including procurement, invoicing, and payments to minimise costs, maximise value and cash flow, and meet profit and debtor day targets.
• Mentoring and training new surveyors and trainees. Supporting all commercial aspects within your unit and the wider response product, where applicable
• Managing the contract accounting and ensuing prompt payment, control cost information. As well as preparing CVRs and valuations to closely monitor contract performance, striving for better solutions and outcomes and steering the commercial contract performance.
• Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with your direct reports, colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.

What will you bring as a Managing Surveyor?

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role from within the repairs/maintenance sector, along with some people management responsibilities/ experience 
• A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow effectively, from within a maintenance contracting environment or similar.
• Strong people skills, IT and Microsoft Excel skills
• The ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
• Experience of working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
• Experience of working on Schedule of Rates contracts, with the ability to price minor works from first principles. 

Additional Benefits include: 

• Annual pay reviews
• Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay.
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
• Specsavers vouchers
• For information on all other additional benefits, please visit our website.

About Ian Williams Ltd:

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We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date based on application volumes.

Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment at Ian Williams—it is the foundation of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different. 

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