Locality Manager

3 weeks ago


Poole, United Kingdom Sovereign Housing Association Full time

At **Sovereign Housing Association** we are driven by our social purpose, where our residents are at the heart of everything we do. Looking after over 60,000 homes is a big job, we know that the quality of a home affects every aspect of a person'slife.

We've been changing how we work, bringing our frontline teams together and aligning them to ten geographic areas, or localities. This is all about services wrapped around our customer, their homes, and the places they live.

As an outcome of our renewed strategy, we are looking for a **Locality Manager** to cover **Dorset and surrounding counties**.

You will be responsible for leading the delivery of pro-active services across the locality which meet this vision, championing our values and working alongside colleagues to achieve our priorities to create a truly customer focussed culture.

You'll be accountable for leadership and delivery of a high quality, value for money, property repairs, improvements, projects and maintenance service. Ensuring works are under taken in a competent and safe manner through a blend of 100+ contractors, externalconsultants and our own inhouse workforce.

You'll have financial responsibility - budget setting, forecasting and management across your locality with a property activity of circa £15m+ PA whilst Contributing to the overall annual budgeting process.

**What we're looking for**
- Experience of managing a multi-disciplinary customer focused team in a large and complex organisation
- Excellent demonstratable knowledge of programme development and performance improvement in a customer focussed environment
- Ability to plan, track and forecast income and expenditure against relevant budgets, to deliver a value for money service whilst taking actions to mitigate any risks to Sovereign
- Able to analyse business information and formulate metrics that deliver permanent or consolidated progress
- Strategic thinking, commercial acumen and values driven behaviours
- Evidence of delivering on innovative concepts, utilising future changes in policy to support flexibility in a responsive organisation
- Know how to create honest communication and inclusive relationships to ensure people are motivated and feel they own and are accountable for their work
- Have a track record of meeting deadlines and working effectively with others in a complex and dynamic environment
- Possess strong people skills and an effective communicator, able to influence and challenge
- Knowledge of relevant health, safety and environmental legislation with focus on compliance within all activities undertaken by the teams

**What you'll receive from us**
- £450 flex-pot annually, discounted shopping & cycling scheme
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
- Company pension scheme matched **up to 12%,** life cover at 4x your salary
- Flexible working - we're committed to giving people flexibility as widely as possible
- Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance & critical illness cover

If your passionate about driving change and looking for an integral role within a major business we'd love to hear from you.



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