Commercial Manager

From the commitment we pour into our homes, to the belief we bring to supporting amazing careers, a role at Persimmon is a springboard for Building Your New Possible. Discover new opportunities to grow, learn new skills and release your potential. We’re Persimmon Homes, a FTSE 100 listed company and a leading UK house builder serving local communities across the UK and delivering around 10,000 homes a year. We have 29 operating businesses in England, Wales and Scotland, three house-building brands and three off-site manufacturing facilities.

Due to planned business growth and a strong pipeline of new projects, we have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join the Commercial Team. This role typically reports to the Commercial Director. The purpose of the role is to manage the team who will provide the sound financial management of sites for the region through effective and efficient controls, producing reports to allow senior management to establish site status.

The role will include:

• Overseeing all commercial aspects of sites of varying complexity whilst ensuring the team of Surveyors set up budgets, producing bi-monthly valuations, appointing subcontractors and making subcontractor payments to maintain close cost control and enable management decisions.
• Ensuring weekly and monthly payments are processed efficiently, any disputed items are resolved, allowing site works to proceed unhindered and give an accurate picture of site financial status.
• Pulling together all site valuations on a bi-monthly basis and presenting to the Board of Directors to indicate any variation from budgeted figures.
• Undertaking negotiations to obtain the optimum rates for sub-contract appointments and material suppliers to maximise margins.
• Ensuring the team utilise the Persimmon Group COINS system to set up new sites and establish budgets, predicting site profitability for financial planning verification.
• Liaising with other departments on time to ensure sites run efficiently (Construction, Sales, Customer Care, Accounts).
• Complying with responsibilities as defined in the Group’s Health, Safety & Environment Policy and ensuring compliance with the same throughout the team to promote safety in the way we build projects.
• Ensuring that the Commercial team are allocated tasks, where quality of work will need to be verified to maintain it is completed to a good standard within company guidelines.
• Mentoring and training junior members of the team and developing their skills to a sufficient level where they can take on more responsibility and add value to the team, thus improving productivity within the region.
• Providing assistance to the Commercial Director when making key business decisions and attending regular regional meetings as the relevant subject expert.

What experience, qualifications and skills are we looking for?

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and staff.
• HNC/HND in a construction related subject.
• Proven experience of the commercial and buying processes.
• Previous experience working in a volume house builder environment.
• Full UK driving license.
• Experience using COINS preferable but not essential.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Salary (DOE).
• Pension.
• Life Assurance.
• Bonus.
• Health Care.

When you join us, the future is yours to explore. You can realise your full potential through industry-leading training and clearly signposted career paths. Persimmon is where hard graft and team spirit means real variety, satisfaction and rewards. A place where you can be at your best, and even go beyond what you thought you were capable of. If this sounds like the place for you, apply today and start Building Your New Possible.

Persimmon are Proud Sponsors of Team GB. No Agencies please – Persimmon will not accept speculative CVs as a means of introduction. Persimmon is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

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