Asset Manager

Asset Manager

Manchester

Up to £50,000 depending upon skills

Our client believes that everybody has the right to call their house a home; a place to feel safe and to enjoy. And they have an opportunity for you to join their team and help reach their exciting growth goals. 

As their Asset Manager, you will gain insights and propose options for future program delivery and investment in their homes and work closely with their wider management team to shape their plans and strategic direction.  

You’ll implement our long-term Asset Management Strategy, leading and coordinating projects and acquisitions that directly support their vision. You will carry out stock condition surveys and inspections, ensuring all relevant information is documented and accessible to internal stakeholders to help manage completed works and prepare accurate budget assumptions. With strong experience in construction and property, you will be pivotal in ensuring good quality services meet tenant our needs, with all works meeting agreed financial budgets. You’ll act as the expert on retrofit and take an interest in the energy efficiency within all their properties, taking the lead with writing all relevant policies and procedures relating to asset management. Confident and communicative, you will develop good working relationships with external stakeholders including contractors, architects and other Housing Associations 

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional with a strong background in asset management who is ready to progress into a senior management role.   

They’re looking for an individual with a strong track record in delivering effective asset planning and contract management to a large and diverse portfolio of mix tenure properties and associated budgets. You’ll hold a professional membership of a relevant construction industry body (RICS or CIOB) or relevant equivalent experience and a commitment to continual professional and management development. With experience in a similar role, you will have demonstrable knowledge around building construction methods and material and be accustomed to undertaking stock condition surveys, ensuring all legislative and regulatory requirements always adhered to. 

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an organisation that wants to make a difference and grow our communities, so apply for more details! 

Our client offers a great range of benefits including: 

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays plus Christmas close (25th Dec to 1st Jan inclusive), and a holiday a buy scheme 

• Company pension scheme with 11.4% employer contribution    

• Company funded access to a health cashback plan (HSF UK), where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more. 

• Enhanced sick pay with up to 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay   

• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave  

• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiative 

• Employee perks via Perkbox  

• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career   

• Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 

• As a small to medium sized employer, their employees achieve variety, early responsibility, the opportunity to work on their own initiative, to work closely with other people (including senior management) and to have their voice heard. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion are paramount for our client. They are proud to have a team of employees from diverse backgrounds and they embrace diversity in all that they do. They positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.  

They are a Disability Confident employer, and they will work to ensure reasonable adjustments are in place where possible throughout the recruitment journey and into employment.  

If you are ready to take the next step in your career and meet the criteria outlined above, we would love to hear from you. If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role, but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for. 

Our client has a proud heritage in helping to create vibrant and sustainable multi-cultural neighbourhoods in inner city areas. 

They employ a small team of highly trained and committed staff members, and they support thousands of people in over 1200 homes across Manchester, Stockport and Trafford. 

They are now the largest independent black and minority ethnic (BME) Housing Association in the Northwest, with an asset base of around £48 million and turnover in the region of £6 million. 

They aim to stay true to our roots, continuing to deliver good quality, affordable housing and services to support our local communities.