RNLI
Senior Commercial Manager - Wales, West and IOM
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Senior Commercial Manager - Wales, West and IOM
Salary: £62,623 - £73,674 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time
Location description: Hybrid between home and our regional base (St Asaph, Denbighshire)
Interview date: w/c 14th September 2026
Closing Date: 06-09-2026
Reference: 20373
About us
The RNLI is a charity with the purpose to save lives at sea with a vision to save everyone. The RNLI provides a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, lifeguards, fundraising, and drowning prevention. Our frontline lifesavers and fundraisers need a dedicated, professional, and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Commercial Manager who has experience of small and large capital projects and reactive, planned and unplanned maintenance in an estate portfolio, to support our Estates team and develop a new team and capability to support our wide-ranging estates, from lifeboat stations to moorings and beach lifeguard units.
Some of the benefits
- Salary £62,623 - £73,674 (dependent on experience)
- Flexible working
- 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Health cash plan option
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Your role
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference. You will be coming into this new role at an interesting time as we shape the organisation to take on the challenges of the future with the delivery of our 5-Year Plan (2026 to 2030) in support of our overall RNLI strategy 2040.
The Senior Commercial Manager will provide a high level of contracting support, including drafting and editing contract documents, tendering major and minor construction works, managing deadlines to contract and programme whilst also reporting on the commercial position of contracts against performance, challenges, and costs to achieve favourable economic and/or strategic terms.
About You
To be considered as the Senior Commercial Manager, you will need:
- Qualifications RICS
- Experience of NEC and JCT contracts
- Experience of managing and supporting projects on compensation events and claims
- Experience and understanding of the CDM regulations
- Experience of tendering new projects
The role is suitable for someone who is currently a senior or Commercial Manager within the construction/estates industry with previous QS experience and a pragmatic approach to problem solving, and a practical and calm approach to a busy workload.
Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
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Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills, and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable) and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.
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