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Contract Manager

Employer
Home Group
Location
South West Region, with travel to London, East & South East
Salary
£45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience
Closing date
25 Mar 2019

Job Details

Your role will cover the UK South West region with some additional travel to London, East and South East regions for the first 6 months.

Salary £45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience

Driving seamless customer service through brilliant contractor management. That’s when it hits home.

This is a fabulous opportunity for you to join us in our exciting role of Contract Manager where you’ll work collaboratively with the Lead Contract Manager and our major national contractors. You’ll ensure all contractual commitments are met and proactively identify and implement solutions in a timely manner. You’ll cover from Home Group’s South West region which extends from Reading to Cornwall with the majority of our stock located within 50 miles from the M25. There will be some additional travel required for the first 6 months to London, East and the South East regions to support some of our inflight projects.

We’re currently undergoing a significant period of growth and change that will enable us to build more homes, independence and aspirations – the vision that underpins our five-year strategy. Our ambition to be market leaders in New Models of Care, build 10,000 new homes and significantly increase our digital capability is in the hands of our brilliant people like you.  We’re delivering a new end to end customer experience to support an enhanced customer offer and digital ways of working. 

And did we mention that we rank No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to Work due to our fantastic culture?!

You’ll be working alongside our brilliant Lead Contract Manager, Simon and the team reports into our regional Head of Maintenance. We are committed to completing our digital journey within the next 5 years which will see us working really effectively with workforce management, our repair requests being completed by self-serve 80% of the time and seeing a real reduction in reactive maintenance through better planning. We’re looking for someone who can develop and maintain strong working relationships with contractors and colleagues in your region to manage opportunities that are commercially beneficial and achieve customer satisfaction. You’ll be covering from Reading to Cornwall but whilst it’s a big patch you’ll be up for the challenge this will bring.

We’ll need you to have brilliant experience in a commercially challenging maintenance environment (ideally within the housing sector), extensive commercial negotiation and a contract management background.  You’ll have an impressive knowledge of construction, maintenance and housing issues, including housing legislation and statutory compliance.  On top of this, you’ll hold Chartered Membership of relevant professional body such as CIOB, RICS or equivalent, be a collaborative person who can deliver great win-win outcomes for Home Group, our customers and contractors. 

So if you want to do great things in a brilliant Maintenance team and work for an organisation that really makes a difference… join us at Home Group!

What’s in it for you?

There’s lots!  Including: competitive salaries, 25 days paid holiday a year rising by 1 day per year up to 30 days, with the ability to purchase an extra 5 days, a contributory occupational money-purchase pension scheme with life assurance, salary sacrifice schemes including cycle, car, technology and heavily discounted AA membership, gyms and savings on high street stores, holidays and restaurants amongst many others.

Want to know more?

If you’re not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download our Contract Manager Job Description, and learn all about us and learn all about us on the about Home Group pages. We’ve also got these brilliant videos that show you all about working at Home Group!

To Apply

Just upload your CV and really importantly, your covering letter (don’t forget to attach this, as we really want to know more about you!) We’ve also got some great templates to help you (if you need them).

You’re unique!

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

Company

There’s never been a more exciting time to join us, as we build and sell over 10,000 new homes across the UK.  From affordable housing to our brilliant private sale brand Persona, we’re shaking up the new build market.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on everything from affordable homes to luxury apartments and build the career you want with us. 

As one of the UK’s largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.  We also provide long term integrated health and social care housing.  We don’t just build houses, we build homes and develop vibrant communities where people want to live. 

What keeps us busy?

We’re building homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! 

We’re winners of the 2018 UK Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year, Silver Best House at the What House Awards 2018, and RESI Landlord of the Year 2016.  We’re constantly challenging the status quo, delivering unparalleled schemes and ground-breaking products.  We pride ourselves on building happier, healthy homes, putting space and people before profits.

Oh and did we mentioned that we rank No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to work, and 17th in Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2019?    

We’re growing

As we’re building new homes, we’re growing our team too so there are lots of opportunities for you to join us across the UK.  So whether you’re acquiring land, designing places, delivering schemes, selling homes or regenerating neighbourhoods.  You’ll be working alongside brilliant people to unlock bold opportunities, exciting new partnerships and collaborative projects across the UK. 

Join us

You can find out more about us and our current vacancies on our website at www.homegroup.org.uk/careers or on our Facebook and Linkedin pages.    

High-flying career, work life balance, brilliant benefits and a cherry on top!  There are so many reasons you’ll love working at Home Group.  https://youtu.be/624xZO1nXqY

 

Company info
Website
Location
2 Gosforth Park Way
Gosforth Business Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE12 8ET
GB

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