Commercial Manager - £63,295 - £66,627
This role

We are recruiting for a Commercial Manager who will be responsible to the Commercial Director for ensuring that the Commercial Operations, in the M&E Capital Programme or Planned Works programme with a budget of c.£40m, run smoothly across multiple systems. Duties to include analysis of monthly expenditure, negotiation of contract rates, closing out end of contract final accounts, extension of supply chain contracts, detailed analysis of variance against budget and forecasts and analysis of quotes from contractors.

You will work closely with the Compliance Director, Senior Head of Planned Works, Operational Managers and other key colleagues to improve value money on expenditure incurred by the Property Directorate.

What you'll need to succeed

•Possess a degree in Quantity Surveying and a minimum of 10 years post qualification experience

•Experience in working in a Senior Quantity Surveying or a Commercial Manager role in a Social Housing, commercial environment including the application of Nat Fed Schedule of Rates based contracts

•Experience in carrying out annual contract reviews, price negotiations, agreeing monthly valuations to final accounts on planned & M&E servicing programmes

•Good planning, budgeting, organising and prioritisation skills. Able to interpret financial and other systems data

•Experience managing staff in a commercial related environment

•Previous experience of managing various forms of Contracts and Cost Models. i.e.: Responsive Repairs, Voids, Planned Capital Programmes, Open book, Target cost, PPP , PPV , AMP cost models.

•Experience in working closely with Finance at P&L reviews, analysing variances, trends and assisting preparation of Budgets and forecasts.

•Excellent working knowledge of Excel, Word

•Excellent writing skills and demonstrable evidence of writing narratives and reports for formal disputes

•Excellent organisational and planning skills

•Strong communication, presentation and client facing skills

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Interview date

TBC – We reserve the right to close this advert early if required.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.