The Sage Development Management (DM) team is responsible for overseeing the completion of a substantial pipeline of between 3,500 and 4,500 homes annually and managing the process by which these homes are passed to the downstream Sage operational teams including Sales, Lettings, and Asset Management. This annual programme of work is delivered through a large number of Development Agreements, with many Developer partners, across a large number of geographically dispersed individual projects.
As Assistant Commercial Manager, you will be allocated to a Development Portfolio and will perform a key role, responsible for supporting the Commercial Governance Lead in the commercial and contractual management of the entire annual project delivery programme. You will support the engagement with external Employer's Agent (EA) and Clerk of Works (CoW) teams to ensure that commercial activities are completed in accordance with Sage's contractual obligations.
You will support the Development Managers and liaise with the Programme Management Office function over matters including payments, cost reporting, progress, risks, issues, and opportunities; and will be responsible for the collation of all supporting data and documentation that is created through the Commercial Governance workstreams.
You will play a key supporting role in the transformation of the DM team that it may provide more consistent programme information to satisfy other downstream Sage stakeholder teams, in particular Sales and Lettings.
Key duties include:
- Identification of commercial and contractual risk, opportunity, and remedy available to Sage
- First point of contact and screening with EA and CoW teams to ensure that commercial deliverables are produced to suit Sage's governance programme.
- Under the guidance of the Commercial Governance Lead, analyse and provide initial commentary on the accuracy and adequacy of project deliverables
- Assisting other Project Managers with collating information to inform other workstreams and the PMO
- Tracking site progress against contract sum analyses
- Ensuring that development invoices are contractually due and adequately supported by accurate documentation to enable timely settlement
- Be a point of liaison for Project Managers and other key stakeholders for payment queries
- Be a point of liaison for other Sage operational teams
- Respond to ad-hoc tasks and requests for support across all workstreams