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About the Role
Savills is seeking an exceptional Commercial Director to lead the Workforce+ business and shape the future of specialist services within their Property Management platform. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a commercially astute and operationally accomplished leader focused on business building, people development, and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead a large, geographically dispersed workforce services business with full commercial and operational accountability.
- Own and manage a substantial P&L, driving revenue growth, margin improvement, and commercial performance.
- Develop and implement robust pricing strategies and commercial models.
- Build high-performing leadership teams and create a culture of accountability, development, and excellence.
- Identify opportunities to expand specialist services within existing client portfolios.
- Support business development activity, proposal creation, and client engagement at senior levels.
- Drive innovation across workforce management, technology, systems, and service delivery.
- Create frameworks, tools, and standards that improve consistency, efficiency, and performance.
- Develop strategic supplier partnerships that strengthen service quality and reduce operating costs.
Requirements
- Proven senior leader with experience operating at scale within facilities management, workforce services, technical consultancy, or a related service-led environment.
- Significant experience leading large operational or commercial functions.
- Demonstrable ownership of a major P&L, ideally within a business generating £50m+ revenue and/or managing a large workforce.
- Exceptional commercial acumen with strong pricing, financial modelling, and margin management capabilities.
- Track record of driving transformation, innovation, and operational improvement.
- Experience building strong supplier and stakeholder relationships that deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Credibility to influence senior stakeholders and lead through both direct management and collaboration.
- Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to articulate a compelling vision and inspire confidence with clients, partners, and internal teams.
- Strong understanding of people leadership, talent development, and organisational growth.
Skills
- Commercial acumen
- Pricing strategies
- Financial modelling
- Margin management
- Transformation
- Innovation
- Operational improvement
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Influencing
- Collaboration
- Communication
- People leadership
- Talent development
- Organisational growth
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Leadership
Benefits
- Benefits Booklet available
About the Company
- Savills is one of the UK's leading property management organisations.
- At Savills, you'll have the opportunity to shape a strategically important part of our business and influence the future direction of specialist services.
- Join a collaborative, ambitious, and forward-thinking environment where innovation, commercial excellence, and client success are valued equally.