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Commercial Manager - Construction
đ Derbyshire / East Midlands
đ° ÂŁNegotiable + DOE + Package + Bonus
đ Significant Leadership Progression
Are you an ambitious Commercial Manager who wants to do more than simply manage the numbers?
Iâm partnering with a successful, privately owned property and development group to appoint a Commercial Manager into its growing construction business.
The construction business is already established, profitable and delivering projects successfully, with a significant pipeline of work behind it. The ambition now is to take the next step â growing its external client base, securing more third-party work and developing the operation into a larger, increasingly independent construction business.
They need someone who wants to help make that happen.
The Role
Youâll take a hands-on role across the commercial management of industrial, logistics and commercial construction projects, including:
- Commercial management from pre-construction through to final account
- Procurement, subcontractor management and contract administration
- Valuations, variations, forecasting and cost reporting
- Estimating, tendering and supporting bids for new work
- Working closely with operational teams to maximise project performance
- Managing two direct reports
- Developing relationships with clients, consultants and the wider property market
- Identifying and helping secure new third-party opportunities
- Working directly with the leadership team to help shape the future of the construction business
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Projects typically include steel-frame industrial and warehouse developments, commercial schemes, groundworks, infrastructure and specialist fit-out.
Who are we looking for?
Your background could be Commercial Manager, Senior Quantity Surveyor or potentially Contracts Manager. Our client is open-minded, focussing on finding the right blend of skills. More important than your exact job title is your mindset.
Youâll need strong construction commercial experience, but weâre particularly interested in someone who is:
- Commercially astute and entrepreneurial
- Ambitious and hungry to progress
- Proactive rather than reactive
- Credible and confident with clients
- Comfortable networking and developing new relationships
- Interested in winning work as well as delivering it
- Happy operating in a hands-on, entrepreneurial environment
- Able to lead a small team
- Motivated by the opportunity to help build and ultimately lead a business
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The client described their priority as âattitude, not aptitudeâ â character, trust, drive and the desire to make things happen are fundamental to this appointment.
Why consider it?
This isn't a role where youâll disappear into a large commercial team and manage your allocated projects.
Youâll be joining a business where you can have genuine influence.
Youâll work directly with the owners, have considerable autonomy and play an important role in taking an already successful construction operation through its next stage of growth.
For the right individual, there is a very real opportunity to progress into senior leadership and potentially lead the construction business in the future.
If youâre commercially strong but feel frustrated by the confines of your current role and believe youâre capable of considerably more, Iâd particularly like to hear from you.
Apply via LinkedIn or contact Steve Brandsma at SolvTalent for a confidential conversation.
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