Planned Operations Manager

Do you have experience leading large scale planned works programmes, managing significant budgets and making positive change happen? If so, we'd love to hear from you. As we continue to grow, we're investing more in our homes and services to ensure they remain safe, high quality and places our customers are proud to live. We're now looking for an experienced Senior Planned Operations Manager to help us deliver on our ambitions and lead the way. In this role, you'll take overall responsibility for delivering our planned and cyclical works programmes across our homes. This includes major investment projects such as kitchens, bathrooms, roofs, windows and decoration programmes across the Group. You'll lead a mix of managers, trades colleagues, and external partners, with accountability for a budget of around £28m. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. You'll ensure planned works are delivered safely, compliantly and to a high standard, with a strong focus on value for money, customer experience, and continuous improvement. Using your experience and forward-thinking approach, you'll look at how we can grow and develop our in-house delivery capability, while always meeting legislative and regulatory requirements. We're committed to doing things better -not just the way they've always been done. You'll work closely with Directors, the Finance Business Partner and a wide range of stakeholders to support forecasting, budget control and long-term planning, helping shape how we deliver planned investment now and into the future. Building strong relationships will be key. You'll work collaboratively across Abri, engaging with internal teams, resident panels and external partners to deliver services that genuinely make a difference to our homes and communities. If you'd like to join a values driven organisation, make a visible impact, and play a leading role in shaping the future of planned investment at Abri, we'd love to hear from you. We'll review applications as they come in and may close the advert early if there's a high level of interest - so please don't delay and apply today. Who we are Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage more than 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, We've all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It's these shared values that bring us together as one team.
Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities. We also expect our colleagues to share Abri's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you're on to a winner and we'd love to hear from you! Be yourself We're committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We welcome and respect the individual differences, life experiences and knowledge that all our colleagues bring into the workplace, and we value their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique. Flexible working We recognise the benefits flexible working can bring and we aim to support colleagues who need to work flexibly wherever we can, provided the needs of both Abri and the colleague can be met. Please feel free to let us know about any flexibility you might need when applying for this role. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to consider it fully. To our agency friends We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in-house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We're not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you'd like to be considered at a future date please don't hesitate to register on our procurement portal.

28 days holiday + the opportunity to buy and sell holiday Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10% Money off tons of high street and online retailers Life assurance of 5x your annual salary Generous parental and family leave Health and wellbeing packages Electric car scheme Personal development opportunities Colleague recognition scheme Flexible working Free eye tests Cycle to Work scheme