Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager – Property & Assets (Strategic Partnerships)

Reporting to: Senior Commercial Manager
Location: Homebased with occasional travel
Number of roles: 3
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: c.£65,000 per annum

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About the role

We’re looking for a Commercial Manager to lead commercial and contract management across major repairs, servicing and planned investment programmes. You’ll oversee NEC/JCT contracts worth £30–35m annually and play a key role in ensuring safe, high‑quality, value‑for‑money services for our housing and care portfolio.

What you’ll lead

• Commercial and contract management across repairs, servicing and planned investment
• Effective administration of NEC and/or JCT contracts
• Protection of Anchor’s commercial interests across live property projects
• Leadership of a small commercial team (forecasting, valuations, SoRs, exclusions analysis)
• Strong commercial controls: forecasting, risk/opportunity, notices, payments and claims
• Value engineering and VFM opportunities with contractors and consultants
• Clear commercial reporting to support investment planning and asset decisions
• Support to the commercial model of our wholly owned property subsidiary in the Northeast

What you’ll bring

• Commercial Management or Quantity Surveying experience in property, housing or construction
• Strong NEC/JCT contract knowledge
• Experience in social housing maintenance and planned investment
• Understanding of reactive repairs, planned works and capital delivery
• Experience with Schedule of Rates (PPP, NHF SoRs)
• Confident communicator with strong commercial judgement
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, challenge constructively and build collaborative relationships
• Resilient, organised and comfortable managing multiple live contracts

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or related discipline (essential)
• MRICS or MCIOB (desirable)

How you work

You lead with integrity, clear judgement and a practical, solutions‑focused mindset. You build strong, respectful relationships with colleagues and contractors, using constructive challenge and transparent communication to drive performance. You stay organised and resilient across multiple live contracts, balancing commercial rigour with a calm, collaborative approach. Continuous improvement, fairness and accountability shape how you lead your team and influence others

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.