Head of Strategic Asset Management - 2 posts

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Job description

We are the Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. - providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with innovative people, strategic people and delivery focused people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 209,000 homes, manage £4.5 billion of assets, deliver £87.9m social value and teach 80,000 children to swim each week.More about your rolePutting people first is at the heart of the Places for People approach. Whether it's a colleague, customer or client we want everyone to have a great experience.As Head of Strategic Asset Management you will work in partnership with the wider business to develop and drive positive practice in asset management and investment programming across the Places for People portfolio.You will lead the development of programmes to balance the delivery of strategic asset management plans including the delivery of 'What Good Assets look like', address immediate portfolio priorities, driving operational efficiency and value for money.You will work in partnership with Places Management to track progress and ensure programmes are on target to achieve desired outcomes.Please note that interviews for this post are likely to take place on the 16th December 2021.For more information please download our job profile available on our website.More about youYou will have experience working in a strategic role in a property/real estate environment with proven knowledge and experience developing asset investment plans and programmes, to deliver targeted improvements to asset portfolios. Furthermore you will have the ability to develop programmes and contribute to procurement strategies to ensure that best value is realised in contracting arrangements; an extension of this is having awareness of statutory and regulatory requirements in a social housing context with the skills to monitor and report effectively.You will possess a clear commitment and awareness of data management principles with experiencing developing on-site and desktop exercises to improve the quality and completeness of data sets. You will have experience managing stock condition surveys, specialist property surveys and associated data and information, and construction project management to drive investment and activity programmes.You will be a skilled communicator with a proven ability to develop key relationships and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships, utilising feedback to effectively shape strategic and operational outcomes. Due to the intricacies of the role and the current landscape you will have an awareness of asset sustainability, efficiency and zero carbon and proven experience embedding into an investment and improvement plan. You will have sound understanding of key financial principals, including budget management, fixed asset accounting and lifecycle costing analysis, and experience using these principles to deliver effective asset management outcomes.You will be an ambassador of our SPIRIT behavioural values and conduct yourself also with integrity and positivity.The benefitsOur ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that's why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership - to a wealth of extra perks including discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.What's next?If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.