Commercial Manager

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS); Hook; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm located in Hook, England, seeks a Commercial Manager to oversee procurement and commercial activities on major projects. This role involves managing a team, ensuring compliance with company standards, and collaborating with various departments to optimize project delivery. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge in quantity surveying and procurement, alongside excellent team management skills. Attractive benefits associated with working here include life insurance, private healthcare, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Excellent retail discounts

Company funded life insurance

Private healthcare

Quality pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of buying and quantity surveying activities.
• Good knowledge of Building Regulations, NHBC and Health and Safety requirements.
• Experience in procurement and purchase of materials and subcontract labour.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Quantity Surveying and Buying activities in line with the COINS framework.
• Assist Land team with estimating land purchase exercise viability.
• Monitor and evaluate subcontract performance.

Skills

Strong knowledge of buying and quantity surveying activities

Good knowledge of Building Regulations

Wide experience in procurement

Managing a team

Tools

COINS system

Job description

Make a Home at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we don't just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen - for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all.

With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you'll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.

Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people.

Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.

Job Summary

Our regional commercial teams are integral to the successful delivery of every Taylor Wimpey site. The function serves as the linchpin between our Technical and Production functions and makes the reality of a Taylor Wimpey development come to life. The Commercial Manager position within the commercial team is a varied management role that focuses on ensuring the consistently high performance of the team, setting realistic but challenging targets, providing strategy and focus for the team and keeping the team in line with the overall plans of the Taylor Wimpey business, It also reports directly into the Senior Commercial manager and Commercial Director.

You will support the Senior Commercial Manager in setting targets and goals across the commercial department and ensuring that plans are in place to deliver those goals. Manage, motivate and train staff across the commercial function.

To maintain the business culture and control framework within the boundaries set out in the Operating Framework, the Commercial Manual, P.M.I.P. processes and other Taylor Wimpey CDM processes.

You will be responsible for liaising with other departments within the business unit in order to ensure a smooth process from land acquisition, to proceeding on site to forming the site start budget. In accordance with Taylor Wimpey procedures.

Primary Responsibilities

Resource Management

• Manage the Quantity Surveying and Buying activities in order that procurement and cost reporting are aligned within the COINS framework.
• Ensure adequate resources are on site to commence build in line with Development Programmes.
• Monitor and evaluate subcontract performance and take any appropriate action.
• Work with all subcontractors and suppliers to negotiate best deals where appropriate and work with other departments to improve cost effectiveness.
• Provide additional Line Management to team of Commercial Administrators.
• Ensure Options are monitored, recorded and ordered as required.
• Ensure all 'Group Deals' are adhered to.
• Ensure all departmental commitments to Health and Safety are adhered to and promoted with internal and external contacts.

Full Commercial Management of Housing Projects

• Assist Land team with LPE's, estimating and completing land purchase excersie viability and financial pack if bid is successful
• Calculate all the prime costs on developments within the business, reporting any movements in the costs since the preparation of the land purchase exercise. Prime costs to include but not restricted to house pricing, labour costs, site work operations and remediation work.
• Negotiate and place orders with labour and material subcontractors on a competitive tender basis.
• Provide a detailed cost budget and share with Site Manager at the appropriate time.
• Carry out full CVR process and prepare and present information for P&L meetings, where a lead role should be taken.
• Maintain the development budgets both in COINS and BoQ.
• Attend site and carry out valuation/payment ticks, where Quantity Surveyors are unavailable.
• Assist in finalising/agreeing/managing Housing Association contracts.
• Ensure regional commitments to Infrastructure projects are met, reported and maintained regularly, to avoid out-of-date costs.
• Take responsibility for all SIT Budget and ATP submission packs, ensuring that DMD approval of all documents is received in good time to avoid Production delays.
• Track DC SIT Budget approval dates and record in COINS as appropriate.

Monitoring and Cost Reporting

• Monitor the performance of suppliers and subcontractors in conjunction with site based staff and provide feedback to suppliers and subcontractors outlining where an unacceptable standard of materials or performance has been identified.
• Report on Value Improvement actions through Quarterly Value Improvement Meetings.
• Manage, monitor external Project Managers Infrastructure Valuations and TW internal cost to complete reports and reflect latest estimates of incurred and forecast expenditure.
• To Review CVR's with QS's and ensure that the cost analysis of the site is correct.
• Prepare regional Work In Progress (WIP) projection for annual Budget submission to Group. Monitor on a monthly basis, reporting excesses, savings and predicted future cost impact.

Scheduling and Quantifying Materials and Labour

• Complete the apportionment of total prime costs to individual plots and produce a profit analysis.
• Monitor and explain subcontractor cost movements.
• Responsible for subcontractor payments, variation orders and day works.
• Undertake valuations of production at budgeted cost on a monthly basis and split the cost of profit completions and potential future profit to estimate a value for work in progress.
• Report on savings and excesses against budget costs to the Director.

General

• Be aware of all codes of practice that have a commercial impact i.e. building regulations, HSE, NHBC etc.
• Attend pre-start, specification and any other relevant meeting as required under the Company's Operating Framework.
• Undertake regular site visits.
• Embrace and engage with requirements of both External and Internal Audit teams.
• To include the duties and responsibilities of a Senior QS when and where required.
• Any other duties as required by the Commercial Director.

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

• Strong knowledge of all buying and quantity surveying activities.
• Good knowledge of Building Regulations, NHBC and Health and Safety requirements.
• Wide experience in the procurement and purchase of materials and sub contract labour.
• IT literate (COINS system preferable).
• Managing a Team.

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.

We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.

We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.

If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.

Internal Applicants

Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role.