Commercial Manager - Property/Construction
£50,000 - £58,000 plus benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester city centre - hybrid
2 roles available: permanent and 12-month fixed term contract
We're looking for a motivated Commercial Manager to join our team at Co-op. In this role, you'll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming into the office once a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy.
As a Commercial Manager you'll be responsible for managing, tracking capex spent by our construction activity, supporting colleagues in delivering projects successfully. You'll be the main point of contact for cost tracking, dashboards, and external QS (quantity surveying) management, maximising on opportunities to drive down costs through trend analysis and interpretation of data.
What you'll do
- Be the main point of contact for cost tracking and dashboards and external QS management
- Track & Monitor spend for all capital streams, providing updates to the senior teams on performance.
- Collaborate with finance to consolidate monthly performance insights
- Maximise opportunities to drive down costs through trend analysis and interpretation of data
- Provide data to support finance teams with cash forecasting
- Offer advice to the property and construction teams, along with business partners at all levels
- Manage our external resource to help make sure that accounts are completed, documentation is in place, and property governance is followed and maintained
This role will suit people who have
- Achieved a relevant commercial management qualification, or you have equivalent experience
- Experience of working with both clients and contractors
- Previous construction or retail experience
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with others at all levels of the business
- Experience in budget management - end to end cycle
Why Co-op?
If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
Building a diverse environment
We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
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