We are seeking an experienced Head of Design to lead our design and technical team to add value to Peabody’s projects throughout their various workstages – from site appraisal to post-occupancy lessons learnt, and everything in between – by ‘co-driving’ development decisions from an overall quality, efficiency, sustainability, safety, and design distinctiveness perspective.

You’ll deliver values-driven service to your internal and external customers, by seeking to understand fully your customers’ needs, identifying, and working to remove pain points, and always doing what you say you will.

What we’re looking for:

A registered or chartered construction professional with an architecture, engineering or other design discipline background and qualification with strong leadership skills to help build a diverse and inclusive organisation An advocate for the value of, and contribution made by, good design decisions in the deployment of scarce time and money resources. You can pro-actively and coherently communicate this message with credibility at senior level and throughout the industry.

You are an inquisitive and strategic thinker – challenging yourself and your team to find innovative and accurate solutions to complex situations – with an ability to provide comprehensible directions and step-by-step guidance to those who need it.

Our commitment to equality diversity and inclusion 

Peabody is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone is welcome and can thrive. We want to attract and retain a diverse representative workforce to give us the best opportunity to meet the needs of our residents and customers and we actively encourage applications for our roles from all groups and communities. 

At Peabody we embrace agile working and wherever possible, we provide hybrid working and flexible working opportunities for our employees, as we recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. For our employees in client facing roles they are provided with appropriate base locations.

At Peabody, where possible, we provide flexible working opportunities from day one to our employees, as we recognise the importance of a good work-life balance; and to improve our productivity and performance, we embrace agile working, which means if you are in a desk based role, that will be a hybrid of office and home working. If your role is in a client facing environment, appropriate base location will apply.

Our mission is to help people make the most of their lives and an important part of this is to ensure that our organisation reflects the wider communities we serve. We want to attract recruit and retain a diverse, inclusive and creative workforce to give us the best opportunity to meet the diverse needs of our residents and customers. We actively encourage applications from all groups and communities, as well as from BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Advertised: 25 Jul 2022 (9:00 AM) GMT Daylight Time
Closing date: 08 Aug 2022 (5:00 PM) GMT Daylight Time