Location : North West or Midlands region - flexible to home base location, travel to our core offices will be required
Hours : Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Our Head of Commercial is a senior role in our business, fundamentally you are responsible for driving commercial performance across our Housing Partnerships portfolio, operating on a nationwide basis. This role supports the delivery of multiple long‑term, multi‑million‑pound contracts for our clients, offering both security and stability, while ensuring consistency and value across regions.
Predominantly centred around Reactive Repairs and Planned Refurbishment projects within Social Housing environments, this role is unique in that it takes an account management‑style approach, working across the country to support and strengthen key client partnerships.
Providing strategic direction, you will work collaboratively with operational and commercial teams across regions, ensuring a consistent approach to commercial delivery, whilst supporting performance, profitability, and long‑term client relationships.
With overall responsibility for commercial oversight, your focus will be to maximise profit, manage risk, and drive consistency across our Housing Partnerships. Working closely with regional teams, Finance, and senior leadership, you will help ensure strong commercial governance and successful contract outcomes across the business.
What’s in it for you
Attractive salary & benefits to suit you
Annual bonus
Company Car, access to EV salary sacrifice scheme
27 Days Hols & BH plus the option to buy or sell holidays
Private healthcare for self and discounts for family
Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
We also offer a Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more…
An outline of your responsibilities as a Head of Commercial
Provide commercial leadership across our Housing Partnerships portfolio, ensuring consistency and performance nationwide
Take a client‑focused, account management approach, developing long‑term strategic relationships
Lead the commercial function across all stages of projects, from bid through to final account
Drive commercial performance by maximising value, controlling costs, and improving profitability
Support regional delivery teams to ensure a consistent commercial approach across multiple regions
Manage commercial risk through contract review, negotiation, and governance
Review financial performance, including CVR, and provide insight to senior leadership
Identify opportunities to expand services within existing partnerships and across new clients
Ensure strong collaboration across Commercial, Operational, and Finance teams
Support dispute resolution and provide strategic commercial direction where required
About You As an experienced Head of Commercial, you will have previously worked in a senior leadership role within a Social Housing, construction environment, ideally across multi‑region or national contracts.
You will be commercially astute, with the ability to take a strategic, partnership‑led approach, balancing strong financial management with client relationship development.
You will have strong stakeholder management skills, excellent client relationship skills, and a proven ability to influence at senior level. Experience of working in an account management‑style role, supporting long‑term partnerships, is key.
You will need to hold a Full UK driving licence and the role is subject to a DBS check.
A Little Bit About Us Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award‑winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family‑owned business with a rich 129‑year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.
At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award‑winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.
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