Managing Quantity Surveyor

Department: EMEA Consultancy

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Description

Soben is an award-winning construction consultancy with bold ambitions and a clear trajectory for growth. Since launching in 2011, we’ve built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Now, we’re entering a transformative new chapter.

In March 2025, Soben became part of Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice, within its Industry X division. This strategic acquisition combines our deep expertise in cost and commercial management with Accenture’s global scale and digital innovation.
For our team, this unlocks a wealth of opportunity:

- Access to world-class resources and technology, enhancing how we deliver capital projects
- Involvement in high-profile programmes across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals
- Career development at scale, with exposure to international clients and cutting-edge project environments
- A platform for innovation, as we continue to challenge traditional consultancy models and lead digital transformation

If you’re ready to play a key role in delivering exceptional consultancy services across the EMEA region, and want to grow your career in a supportive, dynamic, and high-impact environment, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role you will:

- Act as the client-facing Project Manager for your commission, maintaining regular contact and leading formal pre-start and mid-term review meetings.
- Understand client requirements and desired outputs and communicate these effectively to internal teams.
- Lead internal pre-start briefings, set achievable targets, and prepare supporting documentation.
- Hold daily progress meetings with billing teams, resolving technical issues and ensuring alignment with client expectations.
- Manage technical queries (TQs), liaise with clients for responses, and apply reasonable assumptions when needed to maintain programme momentum.
- Conduct detailed QA reviews and gap analyses of BQs and pricing documents to ensure compliance with scope and Soben standards.
- Ensure full execution of Soben systems and QA procedures by billing teams.
- Maintain a detailed working knowledge of prepared documents and lead the handover process, acting as the point of contact for post-submission queries.
- Build strong working relationships with client estimators to support repeat business.
- Achieve high level security clearance to allow participation in classified or restricted projects, enter restricted areas to carry out first-hand measurement, verification, and commercial review without delay or reliance on third-party reporting.
- Be willing to travel occasionally within the UK and Europe to support client engagement.
- Champion continuous improvement in service delivery and support UK Directors in business matters as required.
- Provide effective coaching and mentoring to junior team members.
- Uphold and promote Soben’s core values in all aspects of work.


About you:

- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) standard in Quantity Surveying, a minimum of ten years’ post-qualification experience, ideally including exposure to complex projects.
- Management or team leadership experience is highly desirable, particularly where you’ve overseen technical delivery, coordinated multi-disciplinary teams, or acted as a client interface.
- Your communication and negotiation skills will be first-rate—capable of building trust with clients, resolving technical queries, and guiding internal teams with clarity and confidence.
- You’ll combine a pragmatic, common-sense approach with the flexibility to adapt to changing project demands, tight deadlines, and evolving client expectations.
- A proactive mindset, attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous improvement will be key to your success in this role.


About life at Soben:

We’re on a mission to rewrite the rules.
We’re a diverse team of professionals who consider our work a vocation, not just a job. This sense of purpose and affinity for what we do is what fuels our ambition, driving us to keep learning and seeking new challenges. Inclusion is at the heart of our company’s culture. We’re proud of our unique personality, and we know that our diverse team brings a wealth of perspectives that enrich our work.

Grow with us

Our people are our greatest asset, so you’ll get ongoing training and personal development to help you flourish, building a long-term and successful career with us. We’re small but mighty – you’ll have opportunities to progress quickly and be trusted with responsibilities you could only dream of in a larger organization, including the chance to work on some of the industry's most exciting projects

Our Leadership Principles
Soben’s Leadership Principles are at the heart of our culture. They guide how we engage with each other and with our clients, and how we help our talented employees flourish in their careers.

• We always deliver on our promises, no matter how small
• We are driven to solve our clients’ problems as if paying our rent or mortgage depends on it
• We have a bias for action. Actions make things happen
• We employ the best people who are ambitious, hardworking, humble, and open to feedback. We empower them to “proceed until apprehended”
• We have a business owner mentality to cost management
• We are open, honest, and direct in our communications
• We have a growth mindset
• We reinvest our profits to create a sustainable business for the long term

About us

In 2025, Soben joined Accenture’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice within its Industry X division, marking a major milestone in our journey. This strategic move brings together Soben’s deep sector expertise with Accenture’s global reach and digital innovation.

Together, we’re now positioned to:

• Support high-profile capital projects across sectors such as data centres, energy, and pharmaceuticals
• Leverage advanced technology and global resources to enhance project delivery
• Drive innovation at scale, disrupting traditional consultancy models and setting new standards for performance
• Offer our people unparalleled career development opportunities in a fast-evolving, international environment

We remain agile, responsive, and client-focused—now with the backing of a global leader. It’s an exciting time to be part of Soben.