The Role Fortem Solutions are currently recruiting for a driven and professional Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our brand new Cambridge Housing Society contract, based in Cambridge In the role you will provide proactive and timely support to the Commercial Management function. You will have the skills to take ownership of workload, have great organisation skills, ability to forward plan and meet deadlines by prioritising work. The Client Our contract with Cambridge Housing Society is brand new and launching on April 1st. This will be a long term partnership with houses covering the whole of Cambridgeshire, from Wisbech down to Haverhill, although primarily situated in central Cambridge. There are nearly 3,000 properties, mostly houses and flats, and we will be looking after their Repairs, Voids, Cyclical Works and Planned workstreams. Duties & Responsibilities As the Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you will work with the more senior commercial team members to ensure appropriate commercial controls are in place and adhered to, in order to secure the company's full entitlement through the contract. You will also work with the commercial and operational teams to negotiate with partners and control the commercial aspects of the supply chain for maximum leverage and to create economically advantageous arrangements for Fortem. You will build long term, influential relationships with preferred suppliers to provide flexibility to changing business needs. What You Will Need Essential Criteria: Use data interrogation skills Good Excel skills (incl. V-Lookup, Pivot tables and formula development) Good communication skills Previous use of Schedule of rates Previous site measurement skills Desirable Criteria: QS degree recently qualified or equivalent training Experience of Management Accounts Commercial Contractor exposure Benefits Annual salary review Annual bonus 25 days annual leave bank holidays & your birthday off 26 weeks full pay maternity leave 8 weeks full pay paternity leave Discounted gym memberships at national and local gyms Up to £3,000 colleague referral fee Other benefits including dental care, private healthcare, cycle-to-work scheme, mobile phone provider discounts & more. Who We Are Fortem are Social Housing property experts. It is our sole focus, and the only sector we have worked in since inception in 2002. We successfully deliver works across three workstreams - Repairs & Maintenance, Capital Works and Retrofit. Our mission is to raise the bar in Social Housing and help our clients provide safe, warm and decent homes for people to live in - because Every Home Matters. We are a Willmott Dixon Group Company. As such, we benefit from the credibility and recognition associated with a large and long-established brand - whilst as a standalone business within the Group, we maintain the flexibility to adapt our services to meet the unique challenges of the social housing marketplace. Our success is due to our people. They are passionate, committed and care about what we deliver for our clients and partners and residents. We take pride in developing our employees and supporting them to achieve their potential. For us, a sustainable future is about ensuring we continue to develop our people for our future needs and recruiting the right talent. Our culture, built around Courage, Care and Respect, ensures that we always deliver not only the job done but, most importantly, the job done in the right way. We are Investors in People - Gold standard, we believe in equality, diversity and respect for all and encourage applications from all sectors of the community