Commercial Manager - Co-op Property

Co-op Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail organization is seeking a motivated Commercial Manager to oversee project and budget tracking, working in Manchester with a hybrid model. The successful candidate should have strong communication skills, construction experience, and relevant qualifications. This role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including an annual bonus and private healthcare.

Benefits

Annual bonus

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension with employer contributions

Private healthcare

Subsidised onsite gym

Career development coaching

Wagestream access

Qualifications

• Achieved commercial management or quantity surveying qualification.
• Experience in budget management and construction environments.
• Excellent communication skills to engage effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage project and budget cost tracking.
• Collaborate with finance for performance insights.
• Provide data for cash forecasting and budgeting.

Skills

Commercial management or quantity surveying qualification

Communication skills

Budget management experience

Client and contractor interaction

Construction or retail experience

Job description

Commercial Manager - Co-op Property

£55,000 to £59,200 plus benefits. Permanent role (Work Level 5). Manchester city centre, hybrid working.

We're looking for a motivated Commercial Manager to join our team at Co‑op. In this role, you’ll work in a hybrid way, splitting your time between home and coming into the office once a week.

What you’ll do

• Be the main point of contact for project and budget cost tracking, dashboards, and external QS management.
• Track and monitor spend for all construction capital streams, providing updates to the senior teams on performance.
• Collaborate with finance to consolidate monthly performance insights.
• Maximise opportunities to drive down costs through collaboration with external QS, construction delivery team, trend analysis, and data interpretation.
• Provide data to support finance teams with cash forecasting, budgeting and phasing.
• Offer advice to the property and construction teams, along with business partners at all levels.
• Manage our external resource to ensure accounts are completed, documentation is in place, and property governance is followed and maintained.

This role will suit people who have

• Achieved a relevant commercial management or quantity surveying (RICS) qualification, or you have equivalent experience.
• Experience of working with both clients and contractors.
• Previous construction or retail experience.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with others at all levels of the business.
• Experience in budget management; end‑to‑end cycle.

Why Co‑op?

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance).
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays.
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions.
• Private healthcare.
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ).
• Coaching and training to support your career development.
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn.

Building a diverse environment – We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. You can find out more about our recruitment process at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process and about the Disability Confident scheme at www.disabilityconfident.co.uk. Please note that we may close applications for this role early.

As part of your application, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes up to 50 minutes. If you’re a current Co‑op colleague, this does not need to be completed.