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Our Vacancy

We are looking for an experienced and commercially astute Commercial Lead to join our leadership team. This is a pivotal role responsible for driving commercial performance, ensuring robust financial and contractual controls, and maximising business value across our operations. Reporting to the General Manager, you will work collaboratively with operational, procurement and finance teams, leading a high-performing commercial function that supports business growth, profitability and excellent service delivery.

What you'll do

As Commercial Lead, you will take ownership of the commercial performance of the business, ensuring effective management of costs, revenue, cash flow and supply chain relationships. You will lead and develop the commercial team, drive a culture of accountability and commercial awareness, and provide strategic support to senior management. Your role will include monitoring financial performance, managing contract compliance, overseeing variations and valuations, supporting tendering activities, and ensuring the business secures its full commercial entitlement while maintaining strong relationships with clients, consultants and suppliers.

What You’ll Need

To succeed in this role, you will bring significant commercial management experience, ideally within a construction, repairs or property services environment. You will have excellent analytical and data interrogation skills, advanced Excel capability, strong contractual knowledge and proven negotiation skills. A Quantity Surveying degree, or equivalent industry experience, is essential. We are looking for a confident leader who can build strong relationships at all levels, develop high-performing teams, resolve challenges collaboratively, and demonstrate a genuine commitment to delivering business results while embodying our values and culture.

This is a full time, permanent position working Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm with an annual salary of £60,000.

Why Choose Us

• Annual Salary £60,000
• 25 days, increasing to 28 days at 5-years service and 30 days at 10-years service
• Up to £3,000 colleague referral fee
• Contributory pension scheme with 4% to 10% matched contributions
• Life insurance
• 24/7 digital GP service and counselling helpline (including face-to-face sessions)
• Free annual eye test voucher and contribution towards glasses
• Free annual flu jab
• Flexible annual benefits (for dental, healthcare, shopping vouchers, technology etc.)
• Access to an extensive range of corporate discounts on shopping travel, & days out.
• Travel loan

Why join us?

When you join Town and Country Housing, you’re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered.

Please read before applying:

• You must have the right to work in the UK; we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
• We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

If this sounds like we are right for you and you’d love to be part of Town & Country, we’d like to hear from you. Please apply now by submitting an CV and a short statement explaining why you’re the perfect fit for this role.

If you have any questions about this role, please email the Talent Team on talent@tch.org.uk.

Interviews will be taking place in person on 3rd, 4th and 7th August

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. We will make reasonable adjustments where required throughout the recruitment process. Applicants who require reasonable adjustments to the application process, assessment methods, interview arrangements or other recruitment activities are encouraged to let us know of how we can offer support to enable them to participate fully.