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Commercial Manager

Grafton Banks Finance are working with a Commercial Services company with offices in Stratford, London to recruit a Commercial Manager on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting into the team of Directors this is a newly created role to manage the Commercial team acting as a link between senior leadership and the wider team.

This role combines hands-on commercial responsibilities with full team management, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and efficiency of all cost-related activities across the department.

The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day workload of the team, support and develop team members, and take ownership of complex contract and cost management activities. They will play a critical role in maintaining high standards, improving processes, and ensuring the team operates effectively and collaboratively.

This position is ideal for someone who is confident in managing people, comfortable making decisions, and able to balance operational detail with a broader, strategic view.

Duties and Responsibilities will include:

• Directly manage, support, and develop a team of Commercial Assistants and Coordinators, acting as the first point of contact for team queries, issues, and escalations.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, monitor performance, and support ongoing development.
• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of cost data, contract updates, and system entries, analysing the data and identifying discrepancies or risks.
• Review and validate cost sheets, contract amendments, and service changes.
• Ensure consistent processes and standards are followed across the team.
• Take ownership of more complex contracts, cost models, and commercial exercises.
• Ensure accurate and consistent use of internal systems
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and data quality; Implement best practices for data management, reporting, and auditing
• Act as the key liaison between the Commercial team and senior management.
• Work closely with internal Managers to ensure cost sheets are accurate and up to date; Escalate key risks, issues, or trends to the Head of Department as needed.
• Support senior leadership by providing clear, concise updates and insights, also with departmental planning and priorities.
• Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and training of new team members, if necessary; Carry out any other reasonable requests as required.
• Support and guide the team in investigating subcontractor charge discrepancies.
• Manage workload distribution across the team to ensure efficiency and balance

Key Skills required for the role:

• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a team.
• Excellent numeracy skills and strong commercial awareness.
• Solid experience working with cost data, contracts, and financial information.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills, with the ability to review and guide others.
• High attention to detail with a structured and analytical approach.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Confident decision-maker with the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise effectively across all levels of the business.

This is a full-time permanent role. Working full time in office working full time hours Monday – Friday. For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package.

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