Senior Pre-Construction Manager

We're looking for a Senior Pre-Construction Manager to join our Building Solutions team based in Southampton.

Location: Southampton - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

We're seeking an experienced Senior Pre-Construction Manager to join our thriving Building Solutions team in the London & Southern Region. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a talented team, delivering high-quality bids and innovative solutions across a diverse portfolio of projects valued up to £15 million. You'll work collaboratively with our Operations Director and Business Development Manager, playing a vital role in securing and shaping projects from tender through to handover. This position offers genuine opportunities for professional growth and development as our workstream continues to evolve.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Pre-Construction Manager, you'll be working within the Building Solutions team, supporting them in securing and delivering projects across our chosen sectors. Your day to day will include:

• Leading and coordinating all pre-construction activities from tender issue through to operational handover, ensuring milestones are achieved and quality standards maintained
• Managing and developing a team of pre-construction and estimating professionals, fostering collaboration and wellbeing whilst balancing workloads effectively
• Building strong relationships with clients, consultants and supply chain partners, ensuring confidence in our ability to deliver exceptional results
• Contributing to bid strategy development and risk identification, working closely with governance, commercial, estimating, planning and design management colleagues
• Conducting site visits and engaging with stakeholders to inform detailed design and pricing processes, ensuring projects are de-risked during pre-construction stages

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Pre-Construction Manager is great for you if:

• You hold an HNC, HND or degree in construction or engineering, with membership of a relevant professional body such as CIOB, APM, CIAT or RICS
• You have substantial pre-construction experience on projects up to £15 million, with a proven track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams to successful project delivery
• You possess excellent presentation and communication skills, able to clearly articulate requirements to diverse audiences and build trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders
• You demonstrate strong organisational and time management abilities, with commercial and contractual awareness alongside proficiency in Microsoft applications
• You embrace collaborative working, bringing a passion for construction alongside a supportive leadership style that values team development and wellbeing

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.