Commercial Manager

The Vacancy

🌟 Opportunity: Commercial Manager – WPS (Planned Maintenance)

📍 Location: Covering contracts across Ealing, Haringey, and Greater London
🏢 Business Unit: WPS – Planned Maintenance

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join our Wates team within the WPS Planned Maintenance division. This role will support a portfolio of contracts across Greater London, ensuring a consistent and strategic approach to commercial management, tender reviews, legal terms and conditions, and project mobilisation.

You’ll be the golden thread 🧵 between commercial strategy and project delivery—maximising opportunities and mitigating risks from day one.

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🧾 Key Responsibilities

• 💰 Budget ownership and commercial management for assigned contracts
• 🤝 Act as the commercial lead in monthly review meetings with the Operations Manager
• 👥 Line management of Assistant / Quantity Surveyors
• 📊 Oversee the Cost Value Reconciliation (CVR) process and ensure timely sign-off by the RCM
• 🧠 Support senior management in tender adjudication
• 🛒 Liaise with the buying team to ensure timely procurement of materials

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👤 What We’re Looking For

We’re after a proactive and experienced Commercial Manager with a background in the maintenance sector. You’ll be confident leading a high-performing commercial team and building strong relationships across the business, with clients, consultants, and the supply chain.

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🔐 Additional Information

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

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.