Commercial Development Manager - Milton Keynes in Bourne

About The Role

SALARY: From 49,354 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time fixed-term until 31st January 2028

CLOSING DATE: 18/09/2026

We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

We're looking for a Commercial Development Manager to produce new product development business cases, make sound commercial recommendations and influence senior decision makers for new products and propositions that we want to launch to market. In this analytical and influential role, the business cases you'll present will cover key strategic decision points, product performance and ensure activity is aligned with customer needs and our commercial objectives.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop robust business cases and financial models that shape the launch of new products and propositions across VWFS UK.
• Lead customer value and commercial assessments to ensure innovative products deliver meaningful benefits and strong business outcomes.
• Turn data and insight into action, identifying opportunities to enhance customer experience, improve efficiency, and drive performance.
• Use your knowledge and research skills to provide commercial intelligence that helps prioritise product opportunities and maximise customer value.
• Monitor and evaluate product performance, ensuring propositions remain relevant, customer-focused, and commercially successful.
• Drive innovation across the product portfolio through market research, industry insight, and analytical modelling.
• Assess future growth opportunities by evaluating customer demand, commercial viability, and long-term business value.
• Collaborate with teams across Sales, Risk, Brand Management, and Finance to successfully deliver market-leading products.
• Partner with Product Owners and Product Managers to create customer-centric, compliant solutions that align with Consumer Duty principles and regulatory requirements while maximising commercial opportunities.

What you'll bring:

• Experience at researching and writing business cases, presenting and making recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• A natural curiosity and love to investigate ideas, being commercially minded and driven to interrogate and analyse market trends.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the credibility to engage, challenge, and build relationships at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Proven ability to collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups, developing robust business cases and driving successful outcomes in complex environments.
• Analytical and commercially minded, able to interpret data, solve problems, identify opportunities, and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, building effective partnerships across brands, retailers, finance providers, and cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated and resilient, with the drive, confidence, and adaptability to navigate complexity and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• It's not essential but could be helpful if you already have a strong commercial understanding of the automotive and financial services sectors, including market dynamics, business processes, and regulatory requirements.

What's in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You'll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

About Us

Why join VWFS UK? You'll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission. Our mission is straightforward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn't just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team. This role does not meet the UKVI's criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.