Commercial Manager: What is the cost of hiring?

Why hire a Commercial Manager?

The right person for your Commercial Manager position can grow your business by getting new contracts and increase new markets and customers.

• Identify business opportunities to grow the business by mergers, partnerships, joint ventures and exploring new markets
• Evaluate sales, marketing, finance reports to gain business, market and customer insights to boost business growth
• Prepare accurate bids by coordinating with their colleagues in other relevant departments

Skills to look for in a great Commercial Manager

Commercial Managers are privy to internal company information. Let’s review the necessary work experience and qualifications to choose the right person as Commercial Manager for your business.

• Bachelor’s Degree in business or other related fields, MBA preferred
• Business Development, Sales or Customer Management experience of more than 3 years
• Familiar with MS Office and other Commercial Software
• Ability to organize and multi-task in projects
• Excellent negotiation and customer relationship capabilities
• Result focused and team orientation essential

Writing a Commercial Manager job description

A detailed description is important to finding suitable Commercial Manager candidates. A Commercial Manager job description includes a job summary with job responsibilities and desired skills for the position.

Consider including keywords that job seekers are using to search for Commercial Manager jobs, such as:

• Business Development Manager
• Commercial Contracts Manager
• Regional Commercial Manager

Interviewing Commercial Manager candidates

Choosing a suitable Commercial Manager needs time in analyzing and reviewing the profiles of shortlisted candidates to compare their knowledge, skills, and relevant personality traits.

• MS Office and Commercial software
• Knowledge and experience in business development, customer management
• How they’ve excelled at coordinating with customers to increase business revenue and build customer relationships

See our list of interview questions for more examples.