External Contracts Manager

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Salary: up to £42,203 per annum (plus comprehensive benefits)

Working hours per week: 37

Employment type:

Permanent

We're looking for an External Contracts Manager to join our Property Care Compliance Delivery team, where you'll be taking ownership of managing lifting equipment and supporting Abri’s objective of providing safe homes to our customers.

With experience of the Housing Association environment, you'll have a pivotal role in ensuring Inspection, Servicing and maintenance programmes are delivered in line with financial, contractual, and quality expectations. You will forge strong relationships with partner providers and have the confidence to challenge and drive change, at the forefront of improving the delivery of our services.

Drawing on your contract management experience, you’ll specify, schedule, and deliver inspection and servicing programmes. You’ll also procure work in accordance with tendering, budgetary, and contractual regulations. Additionally, you’ll identify and manage maintenance work to ensure it aligns with regulatory and statutory requirements. Ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety and CDM (Construction Design and Management) requirements is essential, as is maintaining relevant customer engagement at all stages of projects, including Section 20 consultation.

We need you to be flexible in this role so you should be able to travel across our whole geography, to sites and contractor meetings, with regular office days to collaborate with colleagues.

You should live within Abri’s geography and be able to commute to one of our primary offices in either Eastleigh (SO50 6AD
), Bracknell (RG12 1RF
) or Yeovil (BA22 8WN
).

Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage over 58,000 homes and various community assets, serving around 113,000 customers across the South of England.

We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?

We’re investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient. We’re delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it’s needed most. We’re investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone. As we grow, we’re reestablishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service.

Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.

More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at

• Associate

• Full-time

• General Business and Other
• Industries:
  Construction

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