Commercial Director

We are one of the leading builders of new affordable homes for rent and shared ownership in the UK. We seek to provide sector leading homes that delight our customers, through a genuinely tenure blind approach to design, layout, specification and customer experience, ensuring that we create homes and communities that our customers love with all the support they need throughout the process. Our developments range from small schemes in rural villages, through to large urban regeneration projects across the Midlands, East and the South East. We build a variety of homes from one bedroom apartments through to larger family homes. Our strategic partnership with Homes England has helped support our 2030 Strategy commitment to deliver 7,000 new and regenerated homes by 2030. Our developments include a mix of tenures, including market sale, shared ownership and social rent homes to ensure we create balanced and sustainable communities that will flourish.

The role

A new career opportunity exists with Orbit Homes for a Commercial Director to lead commercial activities and new business deals across our three regions. As the Commercial Director you will lead the Orbit Homes commercial teams to add value to our growth by identifying new commercial opportunities and creating strategic commercial direction. This role is part of Orbit Homes where you'll join a 5* housebuilder (HBF) and help us to build new affordable, well-designed and energy efficient homes in a sustainable way.

What you'll achieve

• The Commercial Director will have overall accountability for Orbit Homes expenditure, ensuring cost effective acquisition principles are used and create a cohesive approach across all regional teams that supports the delivery of Orbit Homes 5-year plan.
• Support, develop and lead all commercial departments across Orbit Homes to manage existing direct build, contractor builds and section 106 delivery.
• Partner with the Land and New Business team to present new opportunity to purchase new developments, product accurate cost plans for inclusion within land appraisals and ensure all contracts are executed on the correct basis.
• Develop new strategic partnerships and opportunities.
• Monitor the workload of the commercial teams in each region and manage resources.
• Be accountable for a centralised buying team and determine the most cost-effective procurement principles.
• Lead on managing the relationships with key suppliers and sub-contractors.
• Work closely with the Technical and Design Standards forum to ensure cost effectiveness and consistency in new approaches such as MMC and Future Homes Standards.
• Collaborate with the finance teams to ensure development cash-flows are maintained.
• Take accountability for ensuring there is a cohesive risk register.

While the position is advertised as Midlands, we are happy to consider applicants that live within a commutable distance of our regions which also include the East of England and South East of England. The role will require travel across all three regions.

Benefits include a generous car allowance, group incentive scheme, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension scheme with contributions matched up to 8%, life assurance and fully funded private medical insurance for the employee.

What you'll bring

• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire a team based across 3 geographic locations.
• Commercial acumen and experience of strategic leadership.
• Excellent attention to detail, methodical, conscientious, organised and works to deliver high standards both for themselves and through their team.
• Ability to thrive in a high pressure, fast paced environment, problem solving and delegating effectively.
• Experience in the management of the commercial aspects of new build housing projects and an understanding of building design, development and operational issues.
• Able to establish credible relations when dealing with end user clients, their legal teams and other commercial partners and deliver clear written and oral communications and numerical solutions.
• Experience of working at a senior level within the housebuilding industry, leading numerous projects concurrently.
• Prepared to work across the Homes geography visiting sites, teams and to develop future projects.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense. Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us:

• A rewarding experience that works for you. We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
• A place to progress. From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.
• For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.
• A purpose to feel proud of. We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people. What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair: Online application, Interview(s), Decision and offer. We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.