Divisional Commercial Manager

The Vacancy

📢 We’re Hiring: Divisional Commercial Manager

Location: Various sites across the West and East Midlands, with key offices in Redditch, Tamworth, and Walsall

Business Unit: WPS

Are you a commercially driven leader with a passion for delivering high-quality housing solutions? We’re looking for a Divisional Commercial Manager to join our WPS Business, overseeing a diverse portfolio of contracts across Planned Works, High-Rise Refurbishments, and Decarbonisation/Net Zero Retrofit projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership in driving commercial performance and strategic growth across a range of long- and short-term contracts.

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🔧 What You’ll Be Doing:

• Leading the commercial strategy across multiple social housing contracts, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.
• Managing project P&L, forecasts, valuations, and reporting to ensure financial targets are met or exceeded.
• Collaborating with operational teams to optimise contract performance and client satisfaction.
• Supporting contract mobilisation, implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Driving innovation and identifying new opportunities for growth and efficiency.

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✅ What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in commercial management within the social housing, construction, or maintenance sector.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with a track record of delivering profitable outcomes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working across varied contract types and durations.

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🎓 Ideal Qualifications:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• RICS accreditation (preferred).

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If you’re ready to lead with impact and help shape the future of social housing delivery, we’d love to hear from you.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Interested?

Once you apply a member of the Recruitment Team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

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.