Senior Commercial Manager

Senior Commercial Manager

• Location – Parramatta, NSW
• Employment type – Temporary Full Time until 19th June 2026
• Salary – Clerk Grade 11/12 $145,378 - $168,130 plus super

Your role

The Senior Commercial Manager is a senior position within a team that is focused on providing high quality services and thought leadership on commercial, financial transactional and governance aspects of commercial arrangements entered into by the agency and ensure a coordinated approach on property redevelopment and renewal and other programs.

This role has a key focus on driving organisational efficiencies and standardisations, ensuring that agreed processes and practices are adhered through proactive stakeholder management.

What you’ll do

As part of the Commercial and Development team you will providing strategic leadership and advice on commercial, financial and deal structures across redevelopment projects and programs, adopting a strategic and risk-based approach. You will be developing financial structures and strategies for deploying various forms of funding within Homes NSW projects and with Homes NSW developer partners.

You will lead the delivery of expert, authoritative and responsive advice in market procurement exercises and commercial property negotiations, for program consistency and objectives alignment across the Homes NSW portfolio. Guide teams on the formation of negotiation strategies, plans and minimum outcome requirements. Undertake, manage and interpret comprehensive financial modelling and analysis to develop project feasibilities in order to identify redevelopment opportunities that meet Homes NSW’s program objectives.

You will contribute to strategic, commercial and policy advice and direction in relation to the Homes NSW portfolio and programs, to address emergent issues and influence Homes NSW future strategic directions. Mitigate organisational risks by developing, implementing and maintaining best practice solutions for complex commercial, financial, legal and multi-disciplinary issues.

You will also provide expert, authoritative and responsive support and advice to the Commercial and Development Director and Chief Executive to lead commercial business planning and implementation in an environment of multi-faceted internal and external stakeholders needs.

What we’re looking for

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary approaches to strategic land redevelopment market procurement best practice, financing, approvals and implementation.
• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.
• The role may involve travel both locally and regionally, including overnight travel, as required by the business and/or directed.

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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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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.

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Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 3 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) addressing the targeted question below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• In 500 words or less, please outline your experience in undertaking feasible assessments of unsolicited proposals for property development and negotiating complex development transactions

Applications close Sunday 15th June 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 Megan Nugent via megan.nugent@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 call Stephanie Hughes on 02 8688 0027 or via stephanie.hughes@dcj.nsw.gov.au 

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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.

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