**Salary**: £51,356 to £54,495
**Working Arrangements**: Full Time
**Hours of Work**: 37 hours per week
**Status of Employment**:Permanent
At Berneslai Homes, we strive to be an ambitious, forward-thinking social housing provider and employer. Working for us offers you a chance to play a real part in improving homes and communities throughout Barnsley.
Managing around 18,000 homes on behalf of Barnsley Council, our ‘3 Cs’ values are at the heart of all we do here - we promise to always put the **_Customer first_**, have a **_Can do_** attitude to make change happen, and stay **_Curious_** to make sure we get things right.
We’re proud to announce that we are the first local authority to achieve the highest C1 grading from the Regulator of Social Housing following our recent inspection. This outcome means that we meet consumer standards as a landlord, identify when issues occur, and implement plans to prevent recurrence—demonstrating our commitment to providing high-quality homes and prioritising tenant safety, needs, and well-being.
**The Commercial Manager role**:
As a Commercial Manager at Berneslai Homes, you will provide a strategic commercial lead for our Property Services Repairs Team and Berneslai Homes Management on all commercial aspects within the Property Repairs and Improvement Partnership (PRIP) contract.
You will provide a commercial business acumen, working with our finance team to provide and analyse data and monitor production and operating costs. Provide accurate and timely productivity and performance data driven reports that can support and identify operating improvements.
You will also lead on Property Services Repairs Team commercial performance through the validation of data for PRIP KPI and TSM measures for Berneslai Homes.
**Key duties and responsibilities of our Commercial Manager:
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- To act as the commercial authority for the Repairs Team, embedding clear controls, approvals, thresholds and audit trails in line with financial regulations and contract requirements.
- Provide commercial leadership, control and assurance across Property Services Repairs Team (PSRT), ensuring that all works are valued and controlled in line with contract and schedule or rates (SORs).
- Develop and maintain a single, controlled system where prices can be controlled against contract rates, recognised SORs and industry rates, including governance of change, evolving specifications, indexation and variation thresholds.
- Ensure that cost value reconciliation (CVR) works in progress (WIP) and revenue recognition are accurate and timely providing reports to monitor and evidence against value for money, financial control and governance for the in-house service of c.£32m per annum.
- Develop systems to effectively monitor data from ICT management systems (NEC, DRS SAP) to report upon productivity, identifying risks, including working closely with finance business partners to align operational delivery, budgets and forecasts promoting confidence in management accounts.
**What we’re looking for in our Commercial Manager**:
- A relevant technical professional qualification (Degree or equivalent in Construction, Business or Financial Management)
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Demonstrate an ability to lead\motivate others to contribute to a positive working environment
- Display exceptional people and communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate a high standard of personal resilience whilst delivering successful under pressure and scrutiny.
**What you might be asking is, why work for us?**
We are proud to put our people first! By joining Berneslai Homes, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Agile Working Packages
- Excellent Pension Scheme
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Health & Wellbeing Checks
- Fantastic Training and Development Opportunities
**Key Dates**
**Further Information**
- This post requires a Basic Criminal Record Check.
- CVs will not be accepted.