Construction Commercial Lead

Sisk; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Vision Built is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead the commercial aspects of major modular and offsite construction projects in the UK. You will drive cost and value management, oversee reporting, and manage contract terms with clients and subcontractors.

You will mentor the commercial team, develop staff capability, and ensure governance and safety standards while building strong relationships with stakeholders. This role requires robust negotiation and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial management within construction or infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of contract law, risk management and dispute resolution.
• Skilled negotiator with the ability to secure acceptable outcomes on complex projects.
• Experience leading commercial teams across multiple projects or large-scale programmes.
• Detailed understanding of project cost management systems and ability to interpret data for decision making.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to prepare accurate contractual correspondence and reports under tight timelines.
• Knowledge of design and build processes and delivery planning for multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost and value management for projects, ensuring systems and procedures are in place and followed.
• Oversee financial reporting and cashflow forecasting for projects.
• Identify and negotiate unacceptable contract terms, bonds, warranties and guarantees with clients and stakeholders.
• Manage project change processes by recording, evaluating and recovering entitlements where not the company’s liability.
• Lead risk and opportunity management with the operations team, ensuring mitigation measures are identified and implemented.
• Provide commercial support and training to site staff.
• Manage and mentor the commercial team to deliver key responsibilities and develop professional capability.
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring through structured programmes.
• Supervise the preparation of cost plans for complex projects using appropriate techniques and software.
• Lead the analysis of project cost reports to inform decision making.
• Ensure commercial practices comply with legislation, company policies and best practice.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Financial reporting

Cost control

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Degree in Construction Management

Degree in Law

Degree in Business Administration

CSCS card

Tools

CostX

Primavera P6

Excel

Job description

Vision Built is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead the commercial aspects of major modular and offsite construction projects in the UK. You will drive cost and value management, oversee reporting, and manage contract terms with clients and subcontractors.

You will mentor the commercial team, develop staff capability, and ensure governance and safety standards while building strong relationships with stakeholders. This role requires robust negotiation and leadership skills.