Commercial Manager - Housing R&M

We are looking for a Commercail Manager to lead the commercial function of a newly mobilised internal Repairs and Maintenance Sevice responsible for 15,000 housing properties in NW London, with an annual turnover worth in exess of £20m.

Responsibilities:

• To lead on all commercial negotiations with suppliers and contractors to the service, to continually review commercial arrangements and ensure we are achieving value for money
• To have ownership of the budgets allocated to the service and to work collaboratively with the Operations Manager to maximise our commercial position whilst remaining within allocated budgets
• To lead on all aspects of cost control, variations approvals and finance reporting
• To interrogate and validate all materials expenditure incurred by the Repairs Service
• To interrogate and validate all labour expenditure incurred by the Repairs Service

To be considered for this role you must have:

• Extensive and successful work history in the social housing sector, demonstrating a thorough understanding and application of commercial management in relation to the delivery of repairs, voids and gas service delivery.
• Experience of leading on sub-contract awards and tenders
• Extensive experience of cost control, variations approvals and finance reporting
• Extensive experience of labour, materials and fleet expenditure analysis
• Experience of working to and delivering on budgets and meeting challenging financial targets.