Contracts Manager
Due to continued development, this is an exciting time to become part of the award winning Hundred Houses Society team and contribute to their future improvement plans.
Hundred Houses Society exists to provide great value, low cost homes for the people of Greater Cambridge and constantly strives to deliver better customer service. As well as focusing on delivering more new build homes, they are continually investing and modernising customers' homes. The society has an extensive history of nearly 100 years, and is a society based on strong ethics.
The roles overall purpose is to lead all repairs, maintenance and investment works for Hundred Houses, including:
- Managing contracts and contractor relationships across the repairs, maintenance and investment work programmes
- Providing strong leadership to the Repairs & Maintenance team
- Working closely with stakeholders within our organisation and within key partner organisations
- Focusing on developing a positive and motivating employee culture
Responsibilities include:
- Leading and implementing change management activities and agreed initiatives to deliver business improvements
- Ensuring sustained performance across all repairs, maintenance and investment functions
- Promote a customer and performance focused culture
- Accountable for the setting and delivery of budgets relevant to repairs, maintenance and investment works, including the delivery of any agreed cost savings
- Ensuring all of the Society's assets and resources are used efficiently and effectively
- Focusing on value for money in key relationships with the Society's contractors and suppliers
- Encouraging and promoting cross functional working between all teams across the Society
- Responsible for all property and customer health and safety
- Understand and relate to Hundred Houses society core values
Core focus areas:
- Empty Properties - ensuring vacant homes are maintained and re-let within the target time to the agreed standard.
- Investment Programmes - leading investment programmes including major component renewals and other maintenance schemes.
- Contract Management - leading on the contract management responsibilities for all repairs, maintenance and investment works.
- Customer Services - ensuring all repairs, maintenance and investment services are delivered in line with the agreed customer service standards.
Experience and skills required:
- Property degree, or training/experience to this qualification or equivalent
property qualification (ie RICS/ CIOB).
- Technical knowledge and understanding of property surveying and building construction.
- Experience and knowledge of contract management and construction.
- Health and Safety Awareness and knowledge of property-related legislation.
- Practical knowledge and understanding of setting up technical specifications for tendering contracts.
- Supervision of contractors on building works.
- Procurement and contract management.
- Has excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
- Has excellent written, numerical and verbal skills, ability to think strategically and solve complex problems.
- Highly developed customer care and interpersonal skills.
Salary: £50,900 plus car allowance and enhanced pension, 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
Hundred Houses Society is working exclusively with HR Ready Ltd and all applications will go directly to Rebecca Davies at HR Ready.