Trident Group – UK
Commercial Manager
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Commercial Manager - Birmingham
£45,000 per annum + Car Allowance
37.5 hours - Permanent Contract
10th August 2026
About The Role
To provide independent commercial leadership, governance, and financial assurance across all Property Services contracts. The Commercial Manager will act as Trident’s intelligent client, ensuring contractor costs are robustly challenged, value for money is achieved, commercial risk is managed, and contractual entitlements are fully realized.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the validation and approval of contractor valuations, applications for payment, and final accounts
- Independently review, challenge, and authorize all contractor variation claims ensuring adequate evidence, contractual entitlement, value for money, and budget availability prior to approval
- Establish robust cost control processes across all contracts
- Identify and mitigate cost leakage and over-claiming and commercial risk
- Provide commercial oversight of repairs, voids, planned works, and compliance contracts
- Ensure contractors operate within agreed pricing frameworks and contract terms
- Contribute to LTFP assumptions and investment modelling and extension of Time assessment (where applicable)
Who We’re Looking For?
- Commercial/QS experience in housing or construction
- Managing valuations, variations, and final accounts
- Working on multi-million-pound contracts
- Challenging contractor costs and delivery control
- NEC/JCT administration
- Degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management (or equivalent experience)
- MRICS or working towards
- Experience of JCT/NEC
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Why Join Us?
This is not just a ‘job’ this is the feeling of knowing that you are part of something bigger and being able to go home each day with job satisfaction and pride in what is achieved by Trident Group every day.
Our purpose is putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide. To deliver against our purpose we will be:
- Trustworthy
- Collaborative
- Accountable
- People Focused
- Caring in all we do
The Benefits
- 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
- A day off for your birthday
- 4 days off when you move home
- Life assurance (3 x salary)
- Employee Assistance programme & wellbeing programme
- Flexible Working options
- Learning & Development opportunities
Who We Are?
Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services, and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 650 staff, works with volunteers, and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more.
The Group consists of;
- Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
- Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma-informed care and support services
We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a trauma-informed organization, we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and equally guided by our beacon of hope.
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As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:
- Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- Communicating and promoting vacancies
- Offering an interview to disabled people
- Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
How to Apply?
If you think this role is a good fit for you, click apply and upload your CV!
All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport, which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.
As an organization, we do not offer visa sponsorships. Only applicants with existing right to work in the UK will be considered.
Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
At Trident Group, we only consider agency introductions where a signed agreement is in place, and where the agency has been specifically contacted by a member of our People & Culture Team. We do not accept responsibility for any fees related to unsolicited or speculative CV submissions made directly to our employees or outside of the above.
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