Commercial Manager

Location – Parramatta – hybrid work environment considered

Employment type – Ongoing Full Time

Salary – Clerk Grade 9/10 $125,693pa - $138,510 per annum, plus employer’s contribution to superannuation

Your role

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Commercial Manager to join our team. In this critical role, you will provide high-quality services related to the commercial, financial, transactional, and governance aspects of the commercial arrangements managed by the agency. You will be key in supporting property renewal and other strategic programs, ensuring a coordinated and efficient approach while promoting organisational efficiencies and standardisation. This position requires proactive stakeholder management to ensure processes and practices are adhered to across various programs.

What you’ll do

You’ll provide strategic advice and offer expert guidance on commercial, financial, procurement strategies, and deal structures for various projects, transactions, and programs, ensuring a strategic and risk-based approach is applied across all initiatives.

You will also play a key role in supporting complex property transactions and project procurements, ensuring the agency's objectives are met while adhering to best practices.

You'll work as part of a team to build and maintain strong relationships with other government agencies, third-party partners, and key stakeholders to drive collaborative efforts and effective outcomes and you will work closely with other Homes NSW Divisions to create tailored procurement strategies and support the preparation of procurement and evaluation documents.

You will oversee transaction management activities for complex projects, including managing external consultants and probity advisors, ensuring that all dealings are conducted efficiently and effectively. As well as proactively identify and address risks by developing, implementing, and maintaining best practice solutions for complex commercial, financial, legal, and multi-disciplinary challenges.

If you are a results-driven professional with a strong background in commercial management, real estate transactions, and procurement, we encourage you to apply.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience in real estate and development transactions, with a proven track record in managing complex commercial arrangements.
• Thorough understanding of contemporary best practices in strategic procurement, financing, approvals, and implementation.
• Extensive experience in tendering, procurement, and transaction management, including the evaluation of tenders and managing external consultants.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

1. How do you approach balancing competing priorities and stakeholder interests in complex development projects while ensuring alignment with Government / business commercial, financial, and governance objectives?
2. What are some of the key elements you would consider when developing a framework / plan to negotiate a complex development project?

Applications close Sunday 9 February 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Renate Kunz at Renate.Kunz@homes.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please contact Leanne Chommanivong on 0438 631 489 or via email on  Leanne.Chommanivong@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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