Senior Commercial Manager – Building Services

Construction
Rutland
October 20, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

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)
  • Have a related Chartership such as MRICS

Essential Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours 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

Knowledge

  • 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

Experience

  • 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

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 () or Vetting explained – GOV.UK ()

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