Change 100 Commercial Intern

The Vacancy

📊Change 100 Commercial Intern

📍 Finsbury Park ¦ WPS

Are you interested in the commercial side of the built environment and keen to gain hands‑on experience within a supportive team? 🧠📐
Our Commercial Intern opportunity offers great exposure to real projects, data, and reporting while learning from experienced commercial professionals.

🧩 About the Role

As a Commercial Intern, you’ll support our Commercial Team with data, documentation and reporting activities that help ensure accurate records and sound decision‑making across our projects.

✅ Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Support colleagues in the Commercial Team with data and document collation, helping maintain accurate project records 📁
• Assist with gathering and preparing data to support commercial reporting for specific clients or projects 📊
• Help Commercial Team members produce reports linked to key project milestones 📝
• Where possible, support site or project surveyors to meet contractual obligations, either on site or remotely through information support 🏗️💻

🎓 What We’re Looking For

This role would suit someone who:

• Is working towards a degree in a related subject, such as Quantity Surveying, or has an interest in Mathematics, Data Analysis, Finance, Accounting or Project Management 🎓
• Has an understanding of commercial cost control methods 💷
• Can demonstrate strong time management skills and the ability to prioritise effectively ⏱️
• Enjoys working collaboratively and building positive working relationships 🤝
• Is keen to learn, get involved and gain practical experience in a professional environment 🚀

💙 Why Join WPS?

At WPS, you’ll be part of a welcoming and inclusive business where learning and development are encouraged. This internship provides a fantastic introduction to commercial operations, helping you build valuable skills and experience to support your future career.

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.