The role

Do you have experience and knowledge of residential marketing and sales? Can you effectively commission, lead and manage relationships with suppliers?  If YES then Oxford City Homes Ltd (OCHL) is embarking on an ambitious development programme of both private and shared ownership housing in conjunction with its shareholder Oxford City Council (OCC) and you could be part of this exciting opportunity.

We need someone who can help us create and deliver our sales and marketing strategy, maximise values and profits on all new housing schemes, establish and lead a new team and be part of our senior management team.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and highly motivated individual who wants to be part of this exciting programme.  You will need to possess excellent communication and influencing skills, be analytical and be able to work independently and most importantly be able to deliver results to help make this a success. If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you, please see below on how you can apply.

About us

Oxford City Council prides itself on delivering high quality, cost effective public services. Oxford is a world class city and the Council has high aspirations for its services and employees. We are a multi-award winning Council and in May 2017 we were re-accredited at Gold level for Champion IiP status.  Our other awards include the Institute of Revenues Rating & Valuation (IRRV) ‘Excellence in Innovation’ winners 2017, Oxfordshire Environment Partnership (OEP) ‘Best Food Waste Reduction and Collection System’, and several ‘Team of the Year’ national and regional awards across our Service Areas. This builds on our previous success in achieving ‘Council of the Year’ in 2015. We are accredited with the Customer Service Excellence Quality Mark which helps us to ensure that the customer is always placed at the heart of everything we do.

With over 700 staff dedicated to delivering the best service possible to our communities this is an exciting time to be working in Local Government. We focus on improving outcomes for local people and you might be surprised at the range and quality of the services we provide.

We offer a fantastic range of staff benefits that include generous holiday (from 28 days a year plus bank holidays), local government pension scheme, subsidised leisure membership, discounted travel and flexible working in many roles. We offer well-defined opportunities through our learning and development programme. We also have an employee wellbeing programme, an employee assistance programme and support via our dedicated occupational health service.

How to apply

Applications are by online application form on our website, hit the apply button on this advert to be redirected. More information is available on the role profile document that you can download from our website. Please read this document to ensure that you meet our requirements.  More information about working for the Council, our values and vision, is available on our web site.

We are an equal opportunity employer:

We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the community we support. We have policies in place to ensure that every applicant and employee can flourish and succeed. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from BAME communities. All applicants will be given fair consideration for work and will not receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of any protected characteristic.

Oxford City Council is not currently licensed as a sponsor and cannot employ migrant workers outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland under the Point Based System rules, issued by the UK Border Agency.