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Defects Manager

Employer
Legal & General Affordable Homes
Location
UK (National Role)
Salary
£45k to £55k, plus 10% car allowance and competitive bonus
Closing date
17 Jun 2021

Job Details

As well as delivering a substantial number of quality new homes, Legal & General Affordable Homes (LGAH) is determined to deliver excellent customer service as a foundation stone of our business.

The Defects Manager will be responsible for leading the business in creating great experiences for new customers as they move into their home through the prevention and management of defects through the build process and up to the end of defects period.

You'll be responsible for the development and management of all aspects of the end to end defects process focussing on prevention prior to handover and effective management following sales or letting to ensure customer focussed delivery all through effective relationship building with internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll be doing:

 

  • Develop and lead on the overarching approach for defects management across L&G Affordable Homes focussing on understanding and improving the experience for customers through root cause analysis and prevention.
  • Work with key internal and external stakeholders to identify and implement the systematic process improvements which drive greatest benefit including those identified in the Defects sprint and customer journey mapping.
  • Ensure that data and performance is accurately captured and tracked to support insight on Developer performance
  • Develop, agree and report on organisational metrics for benchmarking, tracking and improving defects performance at the key process touch points.
  • Lead on technology and innovation to identify opportunities to improve the approach to defects management
  • Support the development of defects capture in Brolly through the design and build of the Repairs and Maintenance module
  • Ensure that the End of Defects liability procedure is consistently implemented across LGAH to ensure that defects are captured and retention payments are sufficiently coordinated across all stakeholders
  • Performance manage the business and its suppliers to ensure customer feedback in relation to onboarding and interaction with LGAH and its suppliers achieves best in class standards.
  • Act as an ambassador for great customer experience. Set standards for the business that ensures where a customer if dissatisfied that both LGAH and its suppliers act swiftly and decisively to remedy issues, learn lessons and improve services.  
  • Pro-actively monitoring and assessing the feedback from external partners to ensure that the business is engaged with and feeding back trends and analysis to influence the priorities of the LGAH business.
  • To ensure, at all times, schemes are contracted and managed in accordance with the risk parameters of the business.

What we're looking for:

  • You'll have a strong academic background in customer care, affordable housing and property development
  • Experience in the delivery of a customer focused services with evidence of a solutions based approach to problem solving
  • Expertise in the development processes for residential property
  • Understanding of construction processes
  • Effective training and developmental skills that support vocational development of staff and their behaviours
  • Strong relationship management skills 
  • You'll have a self-driven entrepreneurial spirit that embraces change and opportunity and have a pro-active and creative approach to relationship-building and problem solving

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, 10% car allowance, life assurance, employee private medical insurance, 25 days' holiday, performance related bonuses. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

Legal & General Affordable Homes is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital, which invests its long-term capital into sectors where there has been a shortage of investment and innovation, focusing on growth opportunities and scale ups. Focused on supporting the UK’s demographic and affordable living needs, and consistent with Legal & General’s housing growth strategy, Legal & General Affordable Homes is leading the evolution of the affordable housing sector with an aim to become the leading private affordable housing provider in the UK. Through collaborating with developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country, L&G Affordable Homes is forward-funding new build affordable housing, bringing volume institutional capital to the social housing sector with initial target markets being affordable rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy.

 

Company

Legal & General Affordable Homes

Improving the lives of our customers and building a better society for the long term.

The need for good quality housing that people can afford is fundamental to supporting a flourishing society.  We seek to increase the supply of affordable housing by investing long-term institutional capital into the affordable housing sector to build more affordable flats and houses and provide safe and comfortable homes for those who need them most.

Legal & General Affordable Homes’ ambition is to become the leading private developer of affordable homes in the UK.  We will provide high quality housing management alongside a responsive and effective customer service experience. 

We will deliver our ambition by collaborating with local authorities, housing associations and developers across the country.  Our approach is to develop solutions and approaches to address the challenges of current and future society; by being forward thinking we will deliver competitive, customer-focussed solutions.

We deliver at scale, and with high quality, so our impact is material in addressing the nation’s affordable housing shortage.

We are looking for talented and ambitious individuals that can work in a fast-moving environment to build a business which delivers socially-important outcomes and becomes a market-leader.

To deliver this aim, we will are looking for ambitious individuals that want to be part of teams that collaborate, work with purpose and deliver a new and ambitious business which improves the lives of the customers we serve.

As a growing business there will be change; systems, processes and procedures will be being developed as the business grows, and this will require adaptable and responsible teams that thrive in this environment.

If you think you have these skills and capabilities, and you think you can meet this challenge, then we’d like to hear from you.

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