Senior Commercial Manager

Annual salary: up to £80,000.00

Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Ealing

Full Time

Salary up to £80,000 per annum, plus,

40 hours per week (8-5 Monday -Friday)

Pyramid Plus South, a joint venture partnership between A2Dominion and Mears Property Services, provides repairs and maintenance, compliance, planned replacements and fire risk assessment works. We successfully complete over 35,000 repairs, 1,000 voids and fit 600 kitchens and bathrooms annually to 23,500 homes. With a wide range of upcoming projects, there are exciting times ahead as we continue to grow!

You will be part of a team supporting high standard Commercial activities to Housing properties, delivering best in class commercial acumen, customer service and satisfying all safety, quality and cost control standards.

• Management of Commercial Team & Process to ensure maximisation and protection of profit, cash flow & conversion, risk aversion and accurate performance reporting in line with agreed standard operating procedures.
• Carry out reviews, audits and forecasts for all aspects of contractual commercial performance cost & value reconciliation (CVR).
• Establish and monitor indicative commercial targets & incentivisation schemes using MCM data and contract P & Ls to assess profitability and performance versus budget and ensure work valuations are legitimately maximised via the implementation of recommendations and actions.
• Review and monitor Schedule of Rates, open book and fixed price contracts, converting values across different Schedule of Rates & pricing modules, ensuring metrics are applied to optimise contract performance & resource use, including supplier and sub contractor payments and negotiation of rates.
• Support failing contracts with profit improvement recovery plans, facilitating cash conversion via the movement and clearance of aged debt and work in progress (WIP) and promoting good practice from best performing contracts.
• Support contracts in price tendering, the commercial mobilisation of new contracts and the provision of training to promote the commercial awareness and competency of operational staff.
• Ensure the customer experience is central to all activities by adopting a professional manner when communicating with all stakeholders This includes but is not limited to appearance, company ID, maintaining a high standard of Health &
• Safety requirements and keep all supplied company assets in a good condition in line with the company policies.
• Work with all team members to ensure a commercially efficient and effective service is delivered to service users and client and in support of the attainment and maintenance of high levels of satisfaction with performance delivery according to agreed standard operating / contractual procedures and targets.

Role Criteria:

Essential Qualifications

• ONC/D in construction.

Essential Experience

• Experience and proven track record as QS in commercial environment.
• Experience in social housing sector.
• 1 year plus working as a line manager within a commercial environment.
• Experience of partnership/alliance/ collaborative working.
• Experience of handling multiple tasks in a high volume, rapidly changing environment.

Essential Skills & knowledge

• Interpersonal and communication;
• People management with ability to lead & mentor others;
• Problem solving & results orientated;
• Planning and organisational;
• Decisive decision making;
• Ability to negotiate and influence;
• IT literate with confident oral and written communication skills;
• Negotiation skills;
• Analytical skills.
• Proven Skills & Knowledge in the following:

Benefits we can offer you.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• Company Van, Fuel Card, and Uniform

To apply, follow the link below or to discuss your application further please contact Laura Bourne on [email protected]

Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks either before or upon commencement of employment.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.