We are one of the leading builders of new affordable homes for rent and shared ownership in the UK. We seek to provide sector leading homes that delight our customers, through a genuinely tenure blind approach to design, layout, specification and customer experience, ensuring that we create homes and communities that our customers love with all the support they need throughout the process.
Our developments range from small schemes in rural villages, through to large urban regeneration projects across the Midlands, East and the South East.
We build a variety of homes from one bedroom apartments through to larger family homes. Our strategic partnership with Homes England has helped support our Strategy commitment to deliver 7, new and regenerated homes by .
Our developments include a mix of tenures, including market sale, shared ownership and social rent homes to ensure we create balanced and sustainable communities that will flourish.
The role
A new career opportunity exists with Orbit Homes for a Commercial Director to lead commercial activities and new business deals across our three regions. As the Commercial Director you will lead the Orbit Homes commercial teams to add value to our growth by identifying new commercial opportunities and creating strategic commercial direction.
This role is part of Orbit Homes where you'll join a 5* housebuilder (HBF) and help us to build new affordable, well-designed and energy efficient homes in a sustainable way.
What you'll achieve
The Commercial Director will have overall accountability for Orbit Homes expenditure, ensuring cost effective acquisition principles are used and create a cohesive approach across all regional teams that supports the delivery of Orbit Homes 5-year plan.
While the position is advertised as Midlands, we are happy to consider applicants that live within a commutable distance of our regions which also include the East of England and South East of England.
The role will require travel across all three regions.
Benefits include a generous car allowance, group incentive scheme, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension scheme with contributions matched up to 8%, life assurance and fully funded private medical insurance for the employee.
What you'll bring
Essential skills
Why Orbit?
Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.
Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.
A rewarding experience that works for you
We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
A place to progress
From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.
For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.
A purpose to feel proud of
We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.
What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.
Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.
How we hire
We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:
We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.