Assistant Commercial Manager
Sub Division: Facilities Management
Location: Swindon
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours - Monday to Friday
Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care…
Purpose of Role
We are seeking an experienced Assistant Commercial Manager with strong PFI and Facilities Management experience to join our commercial team.
Job Description
You will have responsibility for managing complex, long-term contracts, supporting financial performance, and ensuring compliance across hard and soft FM services.
Responsibilities
- Commercial management of PFI contracts, including unitary charge mechanisms and performance deductions
- Management of lifecycle replacement programmes, forecasting, and cost control
- Preparation and negotiation of variations, compensation events, and change notices
- Financial forecasting, budgeting, and reporting
- Procurement and commercial management of subcontractors and supply chain
- Ensuring compliance with PFI contractual requirements, payment mechanisms, and KPIs
- Supporting dispute avoidance and resolution, including negotiations with Authorities
- Providing commercial advice to operational and facilities management teams
- Assisting with audits, benchmarking, and open-book reviews
Essential Qualifications/Skills
- Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor or Assistant Commercial Manager
- Strong background in PFI / PPP contracts
- Demonstrable experience within Facilities Management (hard and/or soft services)
- Understanding of lifecycle costing and long-term financial models
- Contractual knowledge (NEC, bespoke PFI contracts)
- Experience working with public sector clients (NHS, education, local authorities desirable)
- Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills
- High level of commercial acumen and attention to detail
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders – and we were named the top-ranked FM service provider in the Sustainable FM Index for 2020. We put our people first. Always working as a team and collaborating from start to finish. We are the trusted expert in the built environment because we listen to our team and create a workplace that maximises their potential.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
Work Location: In person
