Persimmon Homes
Commercial Manager
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Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Mansfield, NG18
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Commercial Manager 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 Commercial Manager, You’ll Benefit From
- Competitive salary
- Company Car/Car Allowance
- 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?
The purpose of the role is to manage the team who will provide the sound financial management of sites for the region through effective and efficient controls, producing reports to allow senior management to establish site status.
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What You’ll Do As Commercial Manager
- 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
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What experience do I need?
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and staff
- HNC/HND in a construction related subject
- Proven experience of the commercial and buying processes
- Previous experience working in a volume house builder environment
- Full UK driving license
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