Lead Commercial Manager

Lead Commercial Manager

£60,000 to £69,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)

Manchester City Centre, hybrid

We're looking for a Lead Commercial Manager to join our property 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 Lead Commercial Manager, we'll look to you to lead a team of commercial practitioners, overseeing the delivery of the team's commercial outputs. You'll be responsible for the oversight and optimization of all day-to-day commercial activity, always making sure there's strategic alignment with Co-op's overall goals. If you can bring us the commercial skills we need, we can offer you the opportunity to play a key role in driving the commercial success of our Co-op.

What you'll do

• Be the commercial responsible lead on annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and business reviews
• Support the finance function in the production of monthly reports for all business areas
• Be the commercial lead on developing Co-op's 4-year plan by co-ordinating analysis of current project costs and using market knowledge to determine future budget requests
• Develop and implement effective commercial strategies to maximise on opportunities and enhance profitability and sustainable growth
• Work with partners across the business on property and pan Co-op projects, providing commercial support, effective cost management and budget control across all workstreams
• Lead and present monthly forecasts for all construction spend
• Oversee the team's preparation of feasibility and budget cost estimates to support programme development and store strategy, making sure these are accurate and correct
• Conduct assurance and due diligence of commercial activity within your area of responsibility

This role would suit people who have

• A strong track record in commercial management with experience in a supervisory role
• The ability to be a visible leader and champion in the control of costs and delivery of the capex budget
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills with a high degree of collaboration with internal and external partners
• The ability to act as a subject matter expert in their area of specialism and provide technical leadership in various governance forums
• The ability to engage with other others and influence across work levels and functions

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
• Private healthcare for you
• 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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