Senior Manager - Commercial Management

Salary: £54,422- £64,025 per annum

Working Pattern: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Hours: 35

This is a 12 Months Fixed Term Contract.

Application Closing Date: 04/08/2024

We expect to hold interviews week commencing 19/08/2024

A bit about the role...

As part of the team delivering the Cladding Safety Scheme, you will play a crucial role in supporting applicants to progress their funding applications to fix unsafe cladding on 11m+ blocks of flats. You will be joining our enthusiastic team, who are committed to making a positive change in this sector. This is a great chance to join our fast growing, national organisation in a role that carries real social purpose. 

Working in the Commercial team alongside other Officers and Senior Managers you will support the commercial delivery of the programme by providing first class support to suppliers. You will build your knowledge of systems and process quickly in order to provide quality advice and help bring buildings which have a cladding safety issue into the scheme at pace. You will use data to target applicants who are not progressing their remediation projects in line with expected timeframes, working with our suppliers to assist with un-blocking any issues & gathering in intelligence to enable escalation when needed.

As well as building relationships within the Commercial and wider CSS team you will liaise closely with our Service Administrator as well as our other suppliers who deliver the services in order to produce the best outcomes for leaseholder residents.

A bit about you…

• Utilising your commitment to deliver excellent customer service, you will manage a number of our commercial suppliers, reviewing monthly MI, leading contract review meetings and supporting the team dealing with a variety of queries from our suppliers around more complex remediation projects, providing support to keep things on track.
• You are happy working in a role where the tasks vary and where pace is critical to our success. You will have a good eye for detail, building a good understanding of when to escalate.
• As an experienced commercial professional, you’ll understand how to manage suppliers and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.
• You will enjoy interacting with third parties, attending monthly contract review meetings, gathering, and reviewing important data to feedback in order to help us manage our programme and funding. You will enjoy working in an innovative and engaging way, using your people skills to negotiate and persuade, where appropriate.
• You will have a positive outlook, enjoy learning, and want to help Applicants to the Cladding Safety Scheme get their buildings fixed for the benefit of their residents.
• You will be comfortable using a range of IT systems, able to pick up the how through basic training and self-reference to user guides. You will be confident in using Microsoft tools such as Outlook and Excel to maximise your productivity. 

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency.

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

• As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 
• Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.
• If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 
• Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 
• If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 
• Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 
• We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 
• We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 
• If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.