Senior Business Manager - Chief Property Office

A bit about the role...

As Senior Business Manager to the Chief Property Officer, your primary focus will be to aid the acceleration of Housing and Regeneration in England. 

Working in the Development directorate, you will ensure the directorate is run within budget, resourced with the right skills, in the right teams, to achieve our ambitious business plan targets and deliver upon the strategic objectives set within the Strategic Plan. 

You will be responsible for dealing with a diverse range of activities including, people, risk, recruitment, communications, finance, and briefings. 

Working with the Chief Property Officer, managing their workload, liaising with the Senior Leadership Team and whole directorate, to communicate priorities, commission new requests and share key stakeholder insight which may affect current plans. 

You will play a critical role ensuring the business of the Development directorate operates smoothly and in line with policy, process, and governance. 

In addition, you will also be responsible for co-ordinating and contributing to the delivery of several ongoing change projects which will influence and enable better ways of working to support how the Development Directorate contributes to the Agency's mission. 

Projects will often be cross-cutting in nature, the post holder will be required to take a proactive and collaborative approach across the Directorate, Agency, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and stakeholders across the housing industry.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of Homes England’s biggest delivery directorate, Development, with over 300 colleagues, is a national team, working regionally, driven by social purpose and duty to create more homes. 

A bit about you…

The Chief Property Office team’s principle aim is to ensure the Chief Property Officer and their SLT are prepared and ready to accelerate housing delivery. You will be a confident multitasker, able to move through tasks at pace and forward plan, innovating our ways of working. 

You will likely come from a business operations, Government private office or built environment background and are looking for a new challenge. 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours is not easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good level of emotional intelligence and empathy with an understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as the Chief Property Office. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade. 

You will understand the importance of people, how to efficiently manage and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, equitable and inclusive way. Always demonstrating best practice as a wider leader, representing the Head of and Chief Development Officer in several forums.

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.