Commercial Manager

The Vacancy

Commercial Manager

📍 Midlands Region – Regional hubs in Wolverhampton & Walsall
🕒 Full-time ¦ Hybrid working available

Are you a commercially astute leader with a passion for delivering excellence in the built environment? We’re looking for a Commercial Manager to join our Midlands team, supporting a diverse portfolio of Planned, Decarbonisation, and High-Rise works.

What You’ll Do

As a Commercial Manager, you’ll lead all commercial activities across pre- and post-contract phases, ensuring robust governance, profitability, and performance. You’ll:

• Drive financial outcomes across turnover, profit, cash flow, and rebate targets.
• Lead tender strategies and project business plans.
• Manage commercial reporting, risk, and contract compliance.
• Build strong relationships with clients, consultants, and the supply chain.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing commercial team.
• Champion innovation, sustainability, and corporate responsibility.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in commercial management within social housing, construction, or maintenance sectors.
• 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.
• Ideally, a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management.

What’s in It for You?

• 💰 Competitive salary + up to 15% bonus (based on business performance)
• 🚗 Car or car allowance
• 🌴 27 days annual leave
• 💼 8% employer pension contribution
• 🏡 Flexible and hybrid working options
• 📈 Career development and leadership opportunities

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

📩 Once you a apply one of the Recruitment Team will then be in contact to discuss the role in more detail and advise of 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.