Director of Asset Investment - Northampton, United Kingdom - Longhurst Group

Longhurst Group
Longhurst Group
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Northampton, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Director of Asset Investment

Salary:
Up to £90,728 p.a. plus car allowance of £3,500 + 3% of salary

Location:
Midlands/East of England - Home based (Travel as required across our geography)

Permanent, full time

The vacancy
Are you a strategic leader with direct experience of Asset Investment?


With a clearly defined strategy to grow our business this brand-new role as Director of Asset Investment is your chance to create a legacy, join a leading housing provider at a time of growth and positively impact our mission to improve the lives of ourcustomers.


Leading a team of 40 people you will deliver and strategically manage Longhurst Group's investment decisions relating to its existing assets, including: asset investment, decent homes compliance, decarbonisation, and stock rationalisation.


You will join a sector with unprecedented challenges as it continues to exit the impact of Covid restrictions, implement catch up repairs and meet growing customer demand against a backdrop of rent caps, regulatory requirements, and inefficient systems youwill be required to think creatively, commercially and motivate an experienced team to succeed.


This is your opportunity to bring your expertise and experience to shape future investment across our operating geography and requirements for circa 24,000 homes, helping ensure the most efficient and effective systems are in place to deliver a best-in-classasset investment service.


You will be responsible for leading a significant financial investment budget, be challenged to deliver decarbonisation works to circa 5,000 homes and help shape our thinking around long term stock rationalisation, this is an opportunity for your work toreally improve lives and is a critical appointment for Longhurst Group.


To be successful in this role your CV will need to demonstrate significant experience of managing residential property portfolios, ideally within a regulatory environment as well as the outcomes you have delivered.

We are particularly interested in seeingwhere you have thought strategically and implemented new processes and systems to ensure future stock investment which have demonstrated value for money.


Our offer

When you join you will enjoy:

  • 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Pension Scheme
  • Life Cover (as part of pension scheme membership)
  • Health Care Cash Plan
  • Free Eye Tests
  • Investment in your personal development through our extensive learning and development opportunities.
  • Family friendly, carers leave plus other paid leave
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Wellbeing Support
  • Free flu vaccinations
  • Carers Networking Group a platform to support Unpaid Carers

How to apply
Vetting Requirements

The important things - Naturally working with our customers we need to complete pre-employment checks before you join us. This role is conditional upon receipt of two satisfactory references (one from your current employer).


Equal Opportunities


As an equal opportunities' employer, Longhurst Group is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, raceor ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.


Our company


Longhurst Group is one of the leading housing groups in the Midlands and East of England, providing more than 24,000 homes and a wide range of care and support services.


With a team of 1,300 colleagues guided by our shared values, our vision is to improve the lives of our customers and our colleagues and to enhance the communities we serve.

We do this by focusing on two clear themes of work:
Health and wellbeing and economicresilience.
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