Commercial Manager
1 month ago
Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: St Albans (Eastern Region)
Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday
Package: Competitive to include Company car or cash for car, plus excellent Colleague benefits
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to join our Eastern region. Your role is to maximise the effectiveness of the commercial function on our construction activities across the region, including quantity surveying, estimating, procurement and material buying.
The Commercial team are a pivotal function in the continued success of our build programme, delivering the highest quality developments, at the best possible cost. Their work presents a fast-paced challenging environment that will exercise your commercial flair to its fullest.
Reporting to the Regional Construction & Commercial Director, you will work closely with your Colleagues across the regional Construction, Technical, Design and Planning teams to ensure all stakeholders are kept informed through clear and open lines of communication. This enables our teams to work seamlessly together.
The Commercial Manager is personally responsible for preparing construction budgets, monitoring costs, preparing schedules, reporting, estimates, making payments and monitoring procurement of subcontracts and materials within the region, whilst operating within the Company policies and procedures.
You will provide a proactive approach to resource planning and coaching the team where needed in terms of their personal development and training requirements.
Hours of work are 9.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 9.00 to 5.00pm on Friday, with one hour for lunch. The role may occasionally involve visits to our regional offices and construction sites throughout the region so you’ll need to have a valid Driving Licence.
About you
We’re looking for a commercially astute negotiator with proven experience in a surveying and estimating field. You’ll have a successful track record of effectively operating at a senior level and have demonstrated your abilities to lead a team on large scale projects in the UK.
You will already be will be comfortable preparing bills of quantities using standard surveying techniques and terminology, as well as familiarity with estimating software packages. You’ll hold an appropriate construction or technical degree (HND minimum) or a recognised surveying qualification such as RICS, along with detailed knowledge and understanding of current building regulations, construction methods and products.
Knowledge of Modern Methods of Construction, Construction Law and Health & Safety regulations is highly desirable but not essential. We’d love it if you had at least 5 years previous house building and contracting experience, preferably with experience of apartments.
The ideal Commercial Manager is decisive, organised and methodical, with strong communication skills and an abundance of initiative. You’ll be confident preparing and presenting reports, highly numerical with a good understanding of Excel.
How you’ll be rewarded
Competitive salary Company car provision or cash for car alternative Annual holiday entitlement – minimum of 25 days + Bank Holidays Group Personal Pension Plan Life Assurance Private Medical Insurance John Lewis vouchers - £200 to all expectant parents Day off on your birthday Eye Care Reimbursement Scheme Colleague Introduction reward scheme Land Introduction Bonus Professional Subscriptions Training Courses Professional development
About us
Churchill Retirement is a family-run, privately-owned business and we are proud of what we do and the people we work with.
We have exciting and ambitious growth plans for the future. Our mission is to be the most successful house builder in the UK and our objective is to achieve the growth required to deliver 1,000-unit sales by 2024. With an award-winning product and sector-leading profit margins, the Company is now committing to investing in the future and the long-term growth of the Business.
We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality, purpose-built one and two-bedroom apartments in desirable locations across the UK, for those looking for an independent lifestyle in later life. Developments are designed to take away all the hassle and fears of home ownership and provide security, peace of mind and independence.
We’ve won a host of awards; most recently we have been ranked in the top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’ by The Sunday Times and we were the first ever retirement living specialist to have been named overall ‘Housebuilder of the Year’ by the WhatHouse? Awards.
Join us and be part of our success story
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