Senior Commercial Manager

Senior Commercial Manager – Property & Assets

Department: Property & Assets – Strategic Partnerships
Reporting to: Head of Strategic Partnerships
Location: Homebased with travel as required
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: c.£75,000 per annum plus £6,200 car allowance

We are looking for a Senior Commercial Manager to provide strategic leadership across our national repairs, planned investment and compliance programmes. You’ll oversee NEC and JCT contracts worth over £80m annually, shape commercial governance across Property & Assets, and ensure our services deliver safety, quality and long‑term value for residents.

What you’ll lead

• Commercial management across the full contract lifecycle: mobilisation, delivery and close‑out
• Contract Administrator / Service Manager responsibilities for NEC and/or JCT contracts
• Development and assurance of commercial processes, controls and governance frameworks
• Leadership and development of a commercial team (forecasting, valuations, payments, variations)
• Monthly commercial reporting: CVRs, risk/opportunity registers, cashflow and compliance
• Commercial oversight of a wholly owned subsidiary in the North East
• Commercial input into procurement, tendering and contract negotiations
• Contractual risk management, change control and dispute avoidance
• Value engineering, efficiency opportunities and continuous improvement across delivery models

What you’ll bring

• Extensive commercial and contract management experience in social housing maintenance, compliance and planned investment
• Strong NEC and/or JCT expertise
• Experience across reactive repairs, M&E compliance and capital investment
• Ability to interpret complex commercial and financial data
• Strong risk management, cost control and value optimisation capability
• Confident stakeholder engagement and senior‑level influence

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
• MRICS or MCIOB (desirable)
• 5+ years’ post‑qualification experience

How you work

You lead with clarity, confidence and commercial insight. You build strong relationships across teams and contractors, communicate openly and use constructive challenge to drive better outcomes. You stay calm and organised in complex environments, balancing commercial rigour with a collaborative, people‑centred approach. Fairness, accountability and continuous improvement guide your decisions and leadership style.

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.