Regional Director - Yorkshire

The Regional Director has end-to-end accountability for the performance and development of the region, delivering profitable growth, safe and predictable operations, strong commercial performance, trusted client relationships and effective regional governance. The role leads a designated Connolly region, balancing capacity with demand, protecting financial and commercial control, managing risk and reputation, and ensuring Connolly’s values, systems, processes and operating standards are consistently applied.

The Regional Director translates Connolly’s strategic priorities into regional plans and leads the region through effective planning, delivery and continuous improvement. Success depends on achieving reliable delivery, strong client and customer outcomes, workforce readiness, excellence in systems and processes, and a high-performing regional team.

Connolly is a family-run specialist in complex, whole-house refurbishment – delivered by our own Connolly people. We were founded in 1980 by Tony Connolly who still pops in to keep an eye on us. We work for social landlords across the north of England to create warmer, safer and decent homes. This includes refurbishing internal spaces such as kitchens and bathrooms, upgrading exterior windows and doors, plus retrofitting homes to make them more energy efficient and compliant with latest legislation.

To be the most trusted, respected, and well-known social housing refurbishment partner in the north of England.

We believe in meaningful connections that inspire us to make a positive impact on people and where they live.

• Develop and deliver regional strategy deployment and regional business plans aligned to Connolly’s five-year plan, annual priorities and growth objectives
• Translate annual priorities into clear quarterly outcomes, measures, owners and regional execution rhythms
• Lead regional P&L reviews, ensuring performance, risk, capacity and future demand are understood and acted upon
• Create a forward-looking view of regional market, client, operational, regulatory and workforce risks that may affect delivery or growth
• Contribute to the regional opportunity pipeline and lead disciplined bid/no-bid decision making, ensuring growth opportunities align with strategic objectives, operational capacity and commercial appetite
• Maintain an integrated regional forecast covering workload, pipeline, revenue, margin, resource requirements and delivery capacity, using insight to drive timely decisions on recruitment, investment, risk and growth

• Lead safe, compliant and predictable delivery across all contracts and programmes in the region
• Ensure regional delivery reviews provide clear visibility of programme performance, quality, productivity, client outcomes and operational risk
• Oversee mobilisation and demobilisation of contracts and programmes to protect service continuity, customer experience and delivery confidence
• Intervene on project performance where required, ensuring risks are escalated early and recovery plans are implemented
• Deliver to Connolly’s agreed operating model and standards, promoting disciplined execution across regional teams
• Deliver and assure minimum standards for health, safety and wellbeing leadership, including visible site engagement, learning from incidents and verification that corrective actions are sustained

• Hold accountability for regional P&L performance, budget delivery and profitable growth
• Maintain strong financial and commercial control across the region, including visibility of margin, cash,…