Stonewater are looking to appoint a Head of Contract Management - someone to contribute to the overall asset management function, with specific accountability for supporting the delivery of quality, performance, and cost of all repairs contracts.
Within the role, you'll provide support in the oversight and management of all repairs contracts to ensure quality, performance and cost management is delivered for Stonewater. You'll ensure key metrics around quality, performance and cost are developed, maintained, and reported on a monthly basis, ensuring the highest levels of governance, control and financial probity and controls are in place in all contracts, and ensure value for money and cost control is achieved and maintained. You'll work collaboratively with the Homes directorate and key partners for our main repairs contracts and manage a team of Cost Managers and Property Inspectors.
The ideal candidate will:
- Hold a degree (or equivalent) with a professional qualification in contract management, cost management and/or quality assurance.
- Have proven experience of developing, sustaining, and managing large repairs and maintenance contracts across a national geographical area.
- Have a track record of improving quality, performance, and cost management across large, national repairs contracts.
- Have experience of developing and maintaining cost control (with a focus on value for money).
- Have experience of working with matrix management responsibility which is operating and collaborating across wide areas of the business.
- Have an excellent understanding of different types of costs and cost management across repairs contracts, with the ability to report facts.
- Have excellent tactical thinking ability, with excellent verbal and numerical reasoning skills.
- Be able to maintain clear visibility of changing economic/social environments which have the capacity to impact service delivery.
- Have highly developed communication skills, able to present to a range of audiences.
- Be able to assess performance, quality, and cost information and implement appropriate solutions.
- Have knowledge of building law, regulation, building contracts, contract law and health & safety legislation and best practice.
Due to the nature of the role, we also ask that you are flexible and able to travel as and when required by the business.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.
Discover Stonewater:
Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 39,000 homes, serving 82,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
We're looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 800 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people's lives.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.
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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.