Assistant Commercial Manager

Assistant Commercial Manager - Fire Remediation and Major Works

Farringdon

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that 'everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well'; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role

The safety of our customers, and therefore building safety, is our number one priority. This role will work across our diverse geography & portfolio to ensure we take a coherent and co-ordinated approach to building safety at a time when expectations are rightly increasing.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and commercially aware Assistant Commercial Manager to join our Commercial Team and support the delivery of a portfolio of fire safety and building remediation projects.

Working alongside senior commercial and fire safety professionals, you will assist in managing pre-construction activities, procurement processes, contract administration, financial monitoring, grant funding applications, and project governance. You will play a vital role in ensuring remediation schemes are procured, funded, compliant, and ready for handover to the Delivery Team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their commercial and project management career within the building safety, remediation, housing, or construction sectors.

The role will be based in London but maybe required to travel to any area of operation to provide coverage to Midlands and East Anglia.

What you'll need to succeed

• Self-motivated with a positive and proactive approach.
• Commercially aware and able to make sound judgements.
• Collaborative team player with a customer-focused mindset.
• Confident in communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
• Able to work independently while supporting wider team objectives.
• Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes and continuous improvement.
• Highly analytical and able to work with management data and comfortable with setting and working to business targets, business plans, project plans and key performance indicators.
• Degree qualified, ideally in a related field
• Strong intellect with the ability to analyse and act upon complex financial and non-financial information and reach speedy well-formed conclusions.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
• Willingness to learn and improve commercial and technical knowledge and ability
• Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional body

Metropolitan Thames Valley provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.

We also offer a range of care and support services. Our specialist areas include older people, mental health and transitional services which provide intensive support to marginalised or vulnerable people.

We deliver training programmes, events and activities for our residents, designed to boost employment opportunities and foster stronger communities.

A member of the National Housing Federation the G15 ? which represents London?s largest housing associations ? we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.

In October 2018 like minded housing associations Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing formally completed a partnership to form Metropolitan Thames Valley. We came together because we want to improve the services we provide and do more in our communities. We?ll do this by listening to our customers and working alongside them.

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