Head of Asset Management

Job Title: Head of Asset Management

Reports to: Director of Surveying Services

Location: London

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000, depending on skills and experience

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5.30pm, 37.5 hours per week Flexible hours offered

The Company:

Rand Associates provides surveying services, consultancy, and software products to the social housing sector. Our clients include housing associations, local authorities, building contractors and consultants.

We are part of the M3 Housing group of companies. M3 publish the M3NHF Schedule of Rates and a range of associated products used for property maintenance, including M3Central, M3Vision and M3Pamwin. See our website for more details.

This role is part of the continued growth and will involve overseeing all asset management activities across the organisation.

Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa’s at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK

The role:

Throughout our projects with social housing landlords, we are involved many aspects of asset management including, but limited to, stock condition survey and EPC projects, asset management and other strategies, programming of works and supervision of works.

1. To be Rand Associates Asset Management Champion and take the initiative in developing Rand Associates Asset Management offering.

2. To work closely with Project Managers to help provide appropriate steer and guidance on stock condition and EPC projects.

3. Offer clients advice on matters related to Asset Management, which could include surveying requirements, funding matters and asset appraisal.

4. To develop relationships with clients and strategic partners.

5. Assist clients with the development of Asset Management strategies, programmes of works and similar

6. Oversee and be actively involved in the reporting of stock condition surveys and other asset management activities.

7. To provide regular board reports on top level progress across asset management activities

8. To be involved in business development, and generating workload as appropriate

9. To head up the recruitment of new staff and assist in the retraining of existing staff as required

10. To attend internal and external meetings as required, including presentations.

11. Attendance at conferences and exhibitions to help promote Rands services and products, including delivering presentations where required.

12. To use Microsoft Office software, such as Word and Excel as required to fulfil the commitments of the role, as well as bespoke software where required.

13. To undergo training as required to satisfy the requirements of the role, including attendance at staff development days, and external training courses where required.

The Candidate:

You will be a pivotal member of the team coordinating all asset management activities throughout the organisation. You will need to maintain excellent communications, in particular with Rand Associates’ Project Managers, Directors and client representatives. You will have an excellent record of working for or with social housing landlords asset management departments, and ideally bring connections to support future Rand Associates projects As a valuable member of our team, you will be encouraged to bring forward ideas in any area you think could be improved, we are always looking to be the best that we can be, and we rely on everyone in the team to help make this happen.

We believe that a good attitude and approach are just as important as technical ability, so we look for:

• Agile mindset.

• Continuous learning and improvement.

• Passion for tech, data, and innovation.

• A collaborative approach to work.

Essential Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience in asset management related roles within social housing

• Proven experience in analysing, understanding, and capturing requirements.

• Ability to lead meetings and maintain implementation/upgrade progress plans.

• Strong management skills

• Strong presentation skills, both in small and large group settings.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in using/developing asset management software

• Agile project management practices.

Summary of terms:

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on skills and experience

Hours: 37.5 per week, flexible hours offered

Holidays: 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Probationary period: 6 months

Notice period: Three months (one week during probation period)

Other benefits: Company pension scheme, Christmas bonus scheme, company car or car allowance, health insurance

Learning: Training courses available to all, led by employee aspirations

Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Director of Asset Management, Asset management lead may also be considered for this role.