Construction Commercial Manager

Job reference 323226

Competitive salary, £5,500 / £5,000 cash equivalent car allowance per annum, 18% annual bonus potential. 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays, company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates. Permanent, Full time, 41 hours per week.

With c1750 properties and 33 million sqft of space spread across the UK, Royal Mail’s portfolio is one of the largest corporate estates in Europe. With a diverse property portfolio from local delivery offices, corporate offices, vehicle garages, rail hubs, and our new state-of-the-art fully automated parcel superhubs. The size, reach and complexity of the estate is vast alongside the potential for you to develop your career within one of the UKs largest industrial and logistics operators.

As Royal Mail continues an ambitious transformation, be at the forefront of the construction strategy as Royal Mail modernises, defines its future network and investment to best serve our customers. The Construction team is an integral part of the transformation and provides expertise, and drives change to achieve maximum commercial value, ensuring our property portfolio is fit for purpose to support the operation.

To support the construction strategy, we have a vacancy for a Commercial Construction Manager, to take a lead role in ensuring Royal Mail's construction activity is delivered for the best value.

The role:

• Accountable for the development and delivery of property project budget to plan and business case objectives.
• Work with the Network teams to understand how the supply chain needs to deliver the capital investment plan, provide data and insight to the planning teams and create construction solutions.
• Define and analyse data to identify construction issues, ensuring the data is of the highest quality in relation to cost, quality, H&S, and the supply chain.
• Establish and build relationships with potential suppliers in all required markets to optimise pricing and quality in the supply chain.
• Run effective tender processes that identify suppliers of the right quality to deliver the required activities/commodities.
• Oversee supply chain onboarding, ensuring new contractors are aware of the expectations, monitor performance by working with Construction PMs to ensure projects are being delivered to the costs and standards.
• Lead and inspire the team to deliver high quality outputs and to develop their own skills.
• Recruit and set the vision for the team.
• Identify and undertake areas that would benefit from a full VE review.

Location: Nationwide with UK travel, frequent/weekly attendance at 185 Farringdon Road, London.

About you:

• A senior/strategic leader from a commercially focused environment, ideally in a real estate or corporate business with highly complex planning and stakeholder landscapes.
• Strong commercial acumen with a track record of demonstrating commercial benefits through risk-based decision making in relation to portfolio planning and property strategy.
• A proven track record of delivery of property works (building fabric, M&E or estate) and the management of portfolio of projects.
• A detailed understanding of the frameworks for successful planning, project and programme management within a fast-paced business environment.
• Excellent leadership, relationship management, planning and influencing skills.
• Experience in managing multiple internal stakeholders at a senior level in the development and execution of complex plans or programmes.
• Able to communicate, engage and energise at senior level across the business, excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Data analysis, problem-solving, decision-making skills.
• Strong IT aptitude, especially with regards to data management and query tools.
• Demonstrable experience of managing and developing a team.
• Educated to degree level (first) in a relevant subject.

Closing Date: Wednesday 9th April. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Extra Benefits:

• Family friendly support: enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
• Discounts and offers: there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay.
• Your Wellbeing: you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life, from your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.