86 Commercial Director jobs in the United Kingdom

Commercial Director 

Location: Catterick

Salary:

£85,000 - £90,000 + Package & Car Allowance

Job Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to join a well-established new build housing development company based near Catterick. This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially astute professional to take ownership of financial and contractual matters across multiple housing projects. You will play a key role in maximising profitability, managing risks, and ensuring commercial success.

Key Responsibilities

Financial & Commercial Strategy:

• Lead and manage all commercial activities, ensuring profitability and risk mitigation.
• Develop and implement cost control and procurement strategies to enhance efficiency.
• Monitor and analyse budgets, forecasts, and expenditure, ensuring financial targets are met.

Contract Management:

• Oversee contract negotiations, variations, and claims to ensure compliance and cost-effectiveness.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, including JCT and NEC contracts.

Cost & Risk Management:

• Provide commercial oversight of project costs, valuations, and final accounts.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks associated with projects.
• Work closely with the operational and finance teams to ensure project profitability.

Stakeholder & Team Management:

• Lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors and Commercial professionals.
• Work closely with senior management to drive business growth and commercial strategy.
• Collaborate with the land, planning, and construction teams to ensure project efficiency.

This role is ideal for a highly analytical, commercially driven professional with a background in the housing or construction sector. The ideal candidate will have:

A strong commercial mindset with excellent financial acumen.

Experience in housing, residential development, or construction.

A track record of managing contracts, costs, and budgets effectively.

Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Leadership experience with the ability to mentor and develop a team.

Knowledge of contract law, procurement, and commercial strategy.

Qualifications & Experience

Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field.

Membership with RICS, CIOB, or a relevant professional body (preferred).

Proven experience as a Commercial Manager or Senior Quantity Surveyor in the housing sector.

To apply, please send your CV to (url removed) or call Joe on (phone number removed)

Commercial Director – Major Infrastructure Project
Location: Thurrock, Essex (Hybrid – 3 days on site per week)
Employment Type: Contract (INSIDE IR35) long term

Recruiter: Morson Talent / Robert Otter

Pay rate: circa £800 - £1000 per day INSIDE IR35 - dependant on experience

Morson Talent are supporting the search for an experienced Commercial Director to join a landmark UK infrastructure programme in the highways sector.

This high-profile project requires a senior commercial leader with the ability to provide strategic oversight, manage complex stakeholder relationships, and ensure commercial excellence throughout the delivery phase.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the commercial strategy for a large-scale highways project.
• Oversee contracts, procurement, and supply chain management.
• Provide guidance on risk management, governance, and compliance.
• Support the senior leadership team in driving value and efficiency.
• Manage and mentor commercial teams to deliver project objectives.

Candidate Profile:

• Proven track record in senior commercial leadership on major infrastructure or highways programmes
• Strong knowledge of NEC contracts and large-scale procurement.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery.

Working Pattern:  The role is hybrid, with an expectation to be on site in Thurrock three days per week.

To express interest or find out more, please contact Morson Talent . Please send your CV to (url removed) or call Morson Talent on (phone number removed) and ask to speak to Robert Otter

We have been exclusively appointed by our client company on a retained search for A commercially astute Commercial Director with strong strategic and financial acumen, with proven experience in building cost models and driving business growth, and the ability to provide clear direction and leadership to a capable but underdeveloped team.

Below you will find a ‘Candidate Opportunity Brief’ developed from notes taken during the scoping meeting (Situational Discovery) held between the Head of Executive Search & Principal Consultant of Ford & Stanley Executive Search and the General Manager of the business in question.

This brief is designed to give candidates a deeper insight into the opportunity inherent within the role, the challenges the role presents, and provide access to the detail that sits behind the job specification.

Client Opportunity Statements:

“We’re looking for someone who can introduce clear processes, build confidence, and lead with intent as we scale out commercial function into a more mature, performance-driven operation”

“Our pricing and margin models vary too much across contracts. We need someone who can create a unified, data-led approach that supports profitable growth and gives us commercial control.”

Challenges expected within the first 12 months include:

• The function currently lacks structure and consistency, as such the incoming Commercial Director needs to address the lack of processes, procedures, systems, contract standardisation.
• As the business grows, the cost models need to be fit for purpose, currently, there is no consistency to these cost models and uniformity needs to be achieved.
• The team have lacked true leadership, and we expect some resistance to change as higher performance is demanded across the function.

Key deliverables within the first 12 months include:

• Define and implement a consistent costing model.
• In close collaboration with the senior leadership team, build a robust pipeline of opportunity.
• Analyse the capability of the current team, identify any gaps and implement practical steps to address these.

Essential Hard Skills (Skills & Experience)

• Proven leasing knowledge with the capability of building pricing models and leading negotiations.
• Strong rail operations knowledge
• Have a strong commercial acumen with the ability to set a commercial strategy and lead new business activity.
• Line Management experience
• Bidding knowledge highly desirable

Essential Soft Skills (Attributes & Behaviours)

• Dedicated and capable of prioritising the various responsibilities.
• Gravitas and has the ability to influence and persuade
• Exceptional negotiation skills
• Strong emotional intelligence, with an ability to navigate diverse stakeholders
• Natural commercial acumen that can think on their feet.

Working Arrangements & Location:

• Hybrid working model
• Based in Derbyshire office, with 1 day working from home and another optional on client visits.

 Interview Process:

• 1st Stage – Face-to-face interview with General Manager, and HR & Administration Manager.
• 2nd Stage – Face-to-face interview with General Manager & Chief Executive Officer.

Good to know:

• The working environment can be described as agile, quick, and unaffected by red tape. With a headcount of 75, this is an SME with an incredible passion for the products, industry, progress and achievements of the collective. With a culture of “name, not a number”, this is a business where everyone knows everyone, and this sets the business apart from other businesses in the Freight Sector.
• It has been identified that there is a lack of leadership in the commercial function and as a result capability gaps in the team.
• The incoming Commercial Director needs to develop the team culture and clearly define the “mission” surrounding growth of the division.
• The Commercial Director will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s commercial strategy, building robust costing models and leading both a capable and under-directed team.
• We need the incoming Commercial Director to drive consistency in contracts, processes and system utilisation.
• In conjunction with the above, we need the successful candidate to build a strong pipeline and identify opportunities for growth.
• A major project, and indeed focus area of this role, for the company involves the introduction of a new product into the market. Early tests have shown exceptional capabilities and the product is described as being among the ‘best’ in the sector. This is gaining a lot of interest, and the initial order numbers will likely be doubled. 

Budget:

Low: £90,(Apply online only) Mid: £5,(Apply online only) High: 00,(Apply online only)

Supporting benefits

• Bonus: 10% of annual salary, structure and earning metric to be defined.
• Pension – 8% Employer contribution.

Executive Search Delivery Team:

• Head of Executive Search, Tom Norton:  Client & Opportunity Management, Client Advisory, Recommendations & Offer Negotiation.
• Principal Consultant, Billy Jackson:  Longlisting, Networking, Research & Search, Interviews, Data & Market Intel & shortlist presentation.

About Ford & Stanley Executive Search:

Please see supporting appendix : Executive Search Candidate Journey

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.

Services advertised by Ford & Stanley Executive Search are that of an executive search and talent advisory business.

Commercial Director 

Location: Catterick

Salary:

£85,000 - £90,000 + Package & Car Allowance

Job Type: Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Manager to join a well-established new build housing development company based near Catterick. This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially astute professional to take ownership of financial and contractual matters across multiple housing projects. You will play a key role in maximising profitability, managing risks, and ensuring commercial success.

Key Responsibilities

Financial & Commercial Strategy:

• Lead and manage all commercial activities, ensuring profitability and risk mitigation.
• Develop and implement cost control and procurement strategies to enhance efficiency.
• Monitor and analyse budgets, forecasts, and expenditure, ensuring financial targets are met.

Contract Management:

• Oversee contract negotiations, variations, and claims to ensure compliance and cost-effectiveness.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, including JCT and NEC contracts.

Cost & Risk Management:

• Provide commercial oversight of project costs, valuations, and final accounts.
• Identify and mitigate financial risks associated with projects.
• Work closely with the operational and finance teams to ensure project profitability.

Stakeholder & Team Management:

• Lead and mentor a team of Quantity Surveyors and Commercial professionals.
• Work closely with senior management to drive business growth and commercial strategy.
• Collaborate with the land, planning, and construction teams to ensure project efficiency.

This role is ideal for a highly analytical, commercially driven professional with a background in the housing or construction sector. The ideal candidate will have:

A strong commercial mindset with excellent financial acumen.

Experience in housing, residential development, or construction.

A track record of managing contracts, costs, and budgets effectively.

Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Leadership experience with the ability to mentor and develop a team.

Knowledge of contract law, procurement, and commercial strategy.

Qualifications & Experience

Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field.

Membership with RICS, CIOB, or a relevant professional body (preferred).

Proven experience as a Commercial Manager or Senior Quantity Surveyor in the housing sector.

To apply, please send your CV to (url removed) or call Joe on (phone number removed)