Divisional Commercial Director

Persimmon plc; Glasgow; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

5* housebuilder

Life cover & pension

Health care

Bonus

Employee benefits platform

Zusammenfassung

Persimmon Homes in Glasgow is seeking a Divisional Commercial Director to maximise regional profit on development investments while ensuring policy compliance across commercial and buying functions. You will shape commercial strategies and train teams per company guidelines.

The role requires strong financial modelling, land viability analysis, and the ability to drive value across multiple regions, with regular regional travel and collaboration with other departments.

Qualifikationen

• Experience within the housebuilding industry is essential.
• Experience in management and reconciliation of financial models.
• Strong report writing skills.
• Strong understanding of legislation and the construction market.
• Experience of people management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience of COINS software systems is advantageous.
• Full UK Driving Licence is required.
• Flexibility to travel across the UK and overnight stay availability.

Aufgaben

• Interrogate and challenge land viabilities to maximise development margin and ensure accurate budgets.
• Review, analyse and report on development and infrastructure budgets for margins and revenues.
• Analyse CVR reports and ensure cost-saving opportunities across operating companies.
• Provide financial reporting models to enable consolidation for the Group Commercial Director.
• Deliver timely reports to aid strategy and decision making.
• Offer training on COINS VAP and other systems across regions.
• Attend regional offices to provide support and attend necessary meetings.
• Collaborate with other group departments to achieve national targets.
• Maintain and update standard trade specifications and guidance across the Group.
• Review build costs across regions to ensure accurate information for land viabilities.

Kenntnisse

Housebuilding industry

Financial models

Report writing

People management

Communication skills

UK driving licence

Willingness to travel

Tools

COINS software

Jobbeschreibung

Job Title: Divisional Commercial Director

Location: Glasgow, G33

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Regional Commercial Director and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Regional Commercial Director, you'll benefit from:

• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Health Care
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform - giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Persimmon Homes as a Divisional commercial Director. The role is to ensure the regions maximise profit on the development investment whilst ensuring compliance of group policy and procedures within the commercial and buying functions. The purpose of the role is to contribute to and implement commercial strategies according to company guidelines and goals while providing support and training to the commercial departments

What you’ll do as Divisional Commercial Director

• Interrogate and challenge land viabilities to ensure the most efficient technical solutions, revenue and budget allowances are correct to maximise and protect and seek to improve the development margin.
• Review, analyse and report on submitted development and infrastructure budgets to ensure accurate reporting of margins and also to ensure best value has been achieved through effective design, procurement and maximised revenues.
• Review, analyse and report on bi-monthly CVR, including ensuring the operating companies have maximised cost saving solutions, to ensure Group set budgets are not exceeded, allowing maximum company profits.
• Collate, validate and provide financial reporting models to the Group Commercial Director to enable consolidation and issuing of group data to the senior management and exec team.
• Provide accurate and timely reports to the Group Commercial Director to enable the formulation of the appropriate strategy and aid decision making in line with the objectives of the Group.
• Provide support and training on company systems, in particular COINS VAP which all regions use to create budgets and CRVs.
• Regularly attend regional offices to give support, advice, training and attending necessary meetings.
• Work cohesively with other group departments across the Company to ensure achievement of national targets.
• Responsibility to maintain and regularly update multiple standard trade specifications and other guidance for use across the Group.
• Execute regular reviews on build costs across multiple regions to ensure accurate reporting and to ensure land viabilities utilise current and correct information.
• Advocate the Group Health, Safety and Environment Policy while ensuring compliance throughout the team to ensure health and safety standards are met.

What experience do I need?

• Experience within the housebuilding industry is essential
• Experienced in management and reconciliation of financial models.
• Strong report writing skills.
• Strong understanding of legislation and the construction market.
• Experience of people management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience of COINS software systems is advantageous.
• Full UK Driving Licence is required.
• Flexibility to travel across the UK and overnight stay availability.