Commercial Manager

Bovis; Oakham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Up to 10% employer pension contribute

Private medical health benefit

Life assurance

25 days annual leave + buy/sell option

Wellbeing leave (3 days)

Job summary

Bovis is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead and manage commercial activities for a major project in the United Kingdom. The role focuses on procurement strategy, cost control, and strong client liaison to ensure value, risk management, and on-time delivery.

The successful candidate will have relevant qualifications, MRICS, and a track record delivering large-scale construction projects with NEC/JCT frameworks. A comprehensive benefits package is provided.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships.
• Ability to influence and lead teams across project functions.
• Experience in tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value.

Responsibilities

• Procurement of the project in accordance with strategy, ensuring best value and proper contracts.
• Liaising with Client team per contract terms.
• Managing supply chain relationships for coordinated procurement.
• Robust management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls.
• Ensure timely, safe, and sustainable delivery while meeting client expectations.

Skills

Written comms

Team leadership

Tendering

Subcontract documentation

Cost management software

Reading drawings

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

MRICS chartership

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Belong at Bovis

We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm. We are a disability inclusive employer. If you need any adjustment or changes to the process, email us to let us know if you have a preferred communication method.

Bovis

We build careers, develop skills, and invest in people. Imagine what more you can do here.

Bovis is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/ or disabled.

Building Relationships

We do what’s right, always

We succeed together

We bring energy

We are Bovis

As Commercial Manager, you will lead and manage the commercial activities for the project.

Key responsibilities

• Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.
• Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the contract.
• Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and coordinated approach to procurement.
• Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk
• controls of the Project (including but not limited to OLi and PMTR/PID’s).
• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration. This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.
• You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.

Essential Credentials

• Maintain CSCS card for the role
• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)
• Degree in Quantity Surveying or other construction related degree
• Have a related Chartership such as MRICS

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Essential Skills

• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
• Ability to influence and lead teams
• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims
• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value
• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties
• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software
• Ability to read drawings and construction design information
• Valuing interim applications
• Measurement and valuation techniques
• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Essential Knowledge

• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures
• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process
• Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems
• Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified
• Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks
• Management of cost, value and profit
• Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account
• Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business
• Good understanding of building technology / construction methods
• Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts

Essential Experience

• Pre-construction experience
• Background with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value
• Converting the Project to an NEC4 Option A Contract for Construction
• Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely
• Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects
• Demonstratable experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
• Procurement of work packages in line with the Project Procurement Strategy
• Conversion of the project from preconstruction to construction
• Communicating and liaising with the Client team in accordance with the contractProduction of Tender Recommendation Reports and Contract Sum Analysis
• Preparation of Subcontracts for execution in line with limits of authority
• Procures robust packages with an understanding of package interfaces
• Manages the change process in accordance with the contract
• Prepares bid documentation to ensure a fully defined tender
• Proven track record in construction including a sound knowledge of Construction
• methodology, process and sequence.

Essential Behaviours

• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player
• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury
• Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities
• Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.
• Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.
• Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.
• Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.
• Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.
• Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.

We will provide

• Car allowance
• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide
• Industry leading parental leave

Please note that due to the nature of this role, national security vetting procedures apply and a full UK security check will be carried out for the successful candidate. Further details about national security vetting can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)