Commercial Manager

National Developer

Cambridgeshire

£85,000 – £95,000 + Package

A great opportunity has become available for a Commercial Manager, working for one of the UK’s largest Residential Developers in Cambridgeshire.

To be responsible for managing the commercial aspects of each development and developments falling under surveyors. This includes managing the costs for each site and ensuring that targets are met by managing and controlling the budgets and valuations. Surveyors are typically allocated sites that are more complex by nature, whether this is due to the type of construction, the speed of construction, or whether it is a multi-phase site or a consortium site (shared infrastructure with another developer).

Accountabilities of the role include:

• Manage/Produce draft budgets and site start budgets.
• Manage/Produce quarterly valuations and complete material ‘cost to complete’ exercises.
• Manage/Produce sub-contract payments and final accounts, ensuring that the sub-contractor has signed these off.
• Manage/Produce sub-contract orders, ensuring they are authorised by the authorised representative, together with all necessary documentation to comply with Group Commercial Policy.
• Complete on-site measurements and assess payments to contractors.
• Attend and contribute to various meetings, such as pre-order meetings, quarterly valuation meetings and project review meetings with senior management, construction team as well as external contractors.
• Manage all sub-contract orders on site, meeting sub-contractors as and when required.
• Manage Professional Fees Budget.
• Assist the Estimator and / or Commercial Director with take-off’s for land appraisals when required