Regional Commercial Director

The Vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Regional Commercial Director to join our Wates Construction London team. Reporting into the Commercial Director, you will lead on all commercial leadership for the Business Unit and Construction Projects. This includes strategy, main and sub contract tender procurement, risk management, pre and post contract, margin improvement and people development.

Key Accountabilities will include:

• Leadership of commercial function through all preconstruction, procurement, commercial delivery and post contract activities.
• Facilitate regular two way discussions with commercial, operational teams and or development teams and update all on current strategic issues.
• Ensure decisions taken are clearly communicated and that relevant individuals have clear guidance to enable successful outcomes.
• Use all available resources to produce data to support regional business plans.
• Regularly meet clients, consultants and or external influences to enable understanding of medium / long term trends, dynamics, opportunities and threats.
• Ensure that all projects have clear tender and delivery strategies published in a project business plan.
• Ensure all bids have a commercial strategy, including demonstration of relevant added value, and where appropriate co-ordinated with the Development Strategy
• Identify significant opportunities for change to add value across the business and effectively manage the change process.

To be successful in the role you will have significant experience in Commercial Leadership and worked on Construction schemes in excess of £80M.

Alongside this you will have strong leadership skills, including experience of managing and developing teams, and the confidence to successfully lead, influence and communicate at all levels to deliver targets.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.