Senior Commercial Manager – Housing Construction

Persimmon plc; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Cover & Contributory Pension

Health Care

Bonus

Employee Benefits Platform

Job summary

Persimmon Homes is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead a regional team, ensuring robust financial management of sites and delivering timely reports to senior management for informed decision-making.

The role focuses on budgets, valuations, subcontractor payments, and cost control, with responsibility for COINS-based site setup and profitability forecasting. Collaboration with Construction, Sales and Accounts is essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and staff
• Proven experience of the commercial and buying processes
• Previous experience working in a volume house builder environment

Responsibilities

• Overseeing all commercial aspects of sites of varying complexity whilst ensuring the team of Surveyors set up budgets, producing bi-monthly valuations, appointing subcontractors and make subcontractor payments to maintain close cost control and enable management decisions
• Ensuring weekly and monthly payments are processed efficiently, any disputed items are resolved, allowing site works to proceed unhindered and give an accurate picture of site financial status
• Pulling together all site valuations on a bi-monthly basis and present to the Board of Directors to indicate any variation from budgeted figures
• Undertaking negotiations to obtain the optimum rates for sub-contract appointments and material suppliers to maximise margins
• Ensuring the team utilise the Persimmon Group COINS system to set up new sites and establish budgets, predicting site profitability for financial planning verification
• Liaising with other departments on time to ensure sites run efficiently (Construction, Sales, Customer Care, Accounts)
• Complying with responsibilities as defined in the Group’s Health, Safety & Environment Policy and ensure compliance with the same throughout the team to promote safety in the way we build projects
• Ensuring that the Commercial team are allocated tasks, where quality of work will need to be verified to maintain it is completed to a good standard within company guidelines
• Mentoring and training junior members of the team and developing their skills to a sufficient level where they can take on more responsibility and add value to the team, thus improving productivity within the region
• Providing assistance to the Commercial Director when making key business decisions and attending regular regional meetings as the relevant subject expert

Job description

Persimmon Homes is seeking a Commercial Manager to lead a regional team, ensuring robust financial management of sites and delivering timely reports to senior management for informed decision-making.

The role focuses on budgets, valuations, subcontractor payments, and cost control, with responsibility for COINS-based site setup and profitability forecasting. Collaboration with Construction, Sales and Accounts is essential.