Commercial Manager

The Vacancy

🚀 Commercial Manager

Social Housing ¦ Construction ¦ Decarbonisation
📍 Hybrid – Southern Home Counties

The Opportunity

Liberty Group is seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to take the lead on risk, opportunity, and commercial performance across a diverse portfolio of social housing, construction, and decarbonisation projects.

This is a high‑impact, senior role offering autonomy, flexibility, and the opportunity to shape commercial outcomes across long‑term maintenance contracts and exciting one‑off construction schemes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Driving commercial entitlement through robust contract management
• Leading risk & opportunity management across live contracts
• Supporting and guiding commercial and QS teams
• Managing change, performance, and dispute avoidance
• Acting as a client-facing commercial lead, negotiating best outcomes
• Deputising for the Commercial Director – Operations when required

Projects span repairs & maintenance, heating & compliance, gas, EICR, and decarbonisation/renewables.

Location & Working Pattern

• 🏠 Hybrid – typically 2 days per week, occasionally 3
• 📍 Travel across the South, Key locations include Oxfordshire, Kent, Cambridge & Swindon
• 🧭 Southern Home Counties focus
• ⏱️ Manage your own time

What We’re Looking For

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management
• Strong background in social housing, property services or construction
• Sound knowledge of NEC, JCT, NHF or similar contracts
• Confident communicator, negotiator, and commercial leader

RICS and renewables experience are desirable but not essential.

Why Liberty?

• ⭐ Genuine influence over commercial strategy
• ⭐ Flexible, trust‑led working culture
• ⭐ Strong pipeline of long‑term and emerging projects
• ⭐ Values‑driven business: Passion, Openness, Respect & Trust

📩 Apply now if you’re a Commercial Manager ready to make an impact across vital housing and infrastructure programmes.

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.