Contract Manager

Contract Manager - Property Safety

Salary:
£63,349 per annum

Location:
Flexible - able to travel within our operating region

Hours:
37 hours per week

Closing date:
10 November 2025

The Vacancy

As our Contract Manager for property safety, you will be responsible for providing effective contract management and technical support to our property safety workstreams. Workstreams will include water quality, lifting equipment, CCTV, fire detection and prevention.

You'll be responsible for supporting a safety first culture by delivering and evidencing a compliant servicing and maintenance regime.

Key responsibilities in the role will include –

• Responsibility for Security (including door entry, automated doors/ gates, CCTV) and Radon management
• Contract management of key contractors delivering services for the above workstreams.
• Taking the lead to ensure the management of all servicing, works and maintenance contracts meet the required standard of performance including audit, time, cost, quality and customer satisfaction
• Producing regular reports on supplier performance and compliance
• Assisting with developing and managing all budgets relevant to the portfolio areas, ensuring they are appropriate and that expenditure is kept within budget

About you

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and/or have demonstrable experience in a related technical role, which will include holding a relevant technical qualification.

You'll be able to demonstrate experience of planning, setting and monitoring significant works budgets.

You will come to the role with previous leadership experience, with the ability to coach the team towards great outcomes.

You'll have a proven track record of effective contract and performance management in a property safety or asset management related discipline. With knowledge of current issues concerning legislative requirements in the social housing sector.

You'll be working with internal and external stakeholders, so you'll be confident building relationships, understanding and anticipating customer needs.

This is a hybrid role and you can choose to base yourself at home or in the office whatever suits you best. You will be required to travel throughout our operating region, so being suitably located to us will be ideal.

Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

What's in it for me

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

Ready to apply?

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you'd be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

You will be required to undertake a basic DBS check if successful.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.