Director of New Homes Delivery

Platform Housing Group owns and manages over 45,000 homes across the Midlands, with a portfolio that includes social and affordable rent and shared ownership houses. The group has G1 governance and V1 financial viability ratings from the Regulator of Social Housing and is currently the largest housing association builder of affordable homes in England, completing 1,448 new homes in 2019/20.

It is a very exciting time for Platform’s Development Team with its ambition to achieve over 2,000 homes a year. 

As part of that effort, the Group has recently undergone a restructure exercise with the  Group Leadership. The result is that a new tier two level has been created (the Senior Leadership Team) which has introduced a number of new Directors to provide support to the Executive Team.   

The main purpose of the new SLT is to work in partnership with the Executive Team to provide leadership of the Group.  The SLT will take a strategic, technical lead but are also expected to work collaboratively as a team to ensure the day to day running of the business.  

Director New Homes Delivery – Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for leading and managing the New Homes Delivery function.
• Regularly monitor and take action in relation to engagement levels of the New Homes Delivery team and wider Group.
• Operational delivery of all new build homes - on time, to the stated quality and at the committed cost.
• Oversee all contract procurement and management, ensuring it is in line with financial regulations and standing orders.
• Lead the team to be the best in sector customer care.
• Project and programme management of multi-tenure new homes including – apartments, homes, commercial property.
• The construction of homes using MMC, off-site, modular construction methods.
• Oversee the reduction of carbon in the construction process, working closely with the Assistant Director (Sustainability) in the Property Team.
• Lead on Health, Safety and Environmental management and CDM.
• The management of all construction delivery eg design and build, Partnerships/Joint Ventures, direct construction management
• Ensure that the procurement strategy secures construction services on the best terms that is able to cope with construction market fluctuation.
• Planning, setting, monitoring and effectively managing relevant budgets for the team, in line with delegated authority guidelines and financial standing orders.
• Ensure that value for money principles are applied to any purchases and maximise efficiencies wherever possible.
• Oversee the Value for Money action plan for the function, ensuring this is kept up to date at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent

Experience

• Procuring and building a national or large regional land led development programme - £300m+ / 2000 new homes    
• Establishing/managing a high performance construction programme that improves quality, cost and timeliness of delivery    
• Working collaboratively as part of joint ventures and partnerships    
• Formulating and implementing design standards and technical specifications    
• Construction Management – commercial housebuilding, mixed tenure and commercial properties    
• Managing HSE and CDM within a complex development programme and through multiple channel delivery    
• Supporting in house customer care teams – reducing defects, providing sector best practice hand over and customer journey management    
• Designing and implementing processes and risk management systems to deliver a complex multi tenure construction programme over a large geography    
• Delivering planning consents, appeals and discharging related conditions    
• Extensive experience of working in partnership with senior managers to achieve results    
• Experience of understanding and managing complex risk and compliance matters for an organisation   Experience of developing and embedding continuous improvement strategies within a directorate.    
• Proven experience of developing performance strategies, for differing audiences and stakeholders.    
• Previous experience of developing and implementing strategic and operational plans
• A proven track record of delivering results in a fast paced and changing environment
• Experience of budget forecasting and management     
• Initiating, analysing and making use of appropriate market intelligence to inform  development schemes and business decisions.

Other requirements    

• Flexibility of working hours to meet deadlines as necessary
• Ability to travel between offices as necessary.