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Quantity Surveyor

Employer
Catalyst Housing
Location
Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and West London.
Salary
£42,840 pa
Closing date
12 Dec 2022

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Manager to be an effective team leader who can challenge performance and drive continuous improvement whilst maintaining a culture which is health & safety, environmental and customer focused.

About us

Connect Property Services Limited is our wholly owned subsidiary of Catalyst Housing Limited, offering a full range of repairs and maintenance services to Catalyst customers’ homes, across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and West London.

Catalyst will join the Peabody Group as a subsidiary on 1 April 2022, before fully merging in April 2023. The new organisation will be responsible for 104,000 homes, with 220,000 residents across London and the South East of England. By joining together, we’ll go further and faster with our plans to improve our services, invest in our homes and communities and create innovative solutions to the challenges of carbon consumption and building safety.

Our purpose

We will continue to create and maintain great homes, whilst delivering excellent service to customers every day. We offer a wide range of housing solutions and opportunities for our diverse range of customer needs and requirements including, rent, part ownership or purchase. By doing so, we build more than homes – we build communities.

We will also be able to create great opportunities for our colleagues to develop their careers within our business, and diversity and inclusion and learning and development will continue to be priorities for the new organisation.

What we’re looking for:

  • Are you an experienced Commercial Manager with demonstrable experience of managing commercial teams?
  • Do you possess commercial acumen and strong market analysis, report writing and IT skills?
  • Are you comfortable with budgets with the ability to produce forecasts and manage sizeable cost to deliver projects on time?

If so, this is the perfect role for you! We currently have a great opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join us on a permanent basis.

Do you have what it takes?

To succeed in your role as a Quantity Surveyor you will:

  • Have previous experience of commercial Quantity Surveying within a direct labour organisation
  • Provide challenge, insight, creative solution and demonstrate a high level of understanding of the operational costs of running the IHMS and the impact to budget.
  • Promote a culture of continual improvement by sharing compliments, complaints, and other customer feedback. Reviewing and understanding performance.
  • Hold regular one to ones, team meetings, toolbox talks and engagement.
  • Be an excellent communicator with strong presentation skills

The UK has a housing problem which affects every one of us, because housing is the foundation of the society we live in. Catalyst is part of the solution and you could be too!

The benefits

We’re committed to making Catalyst a great place to work. As well as offering a positive culture we offer a competitive pay and benefits package, some of which are listed below:

  • Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
  • 25 days paid annual leave and will accrue an additional day of annual leave based on length of service including bank holidays
  • A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme: matching a contribution of 3- 5% of your monthly salary with up to another 5% by us
  • Hundreds of exclusive discounts and freebies from the UK’s biggest brands
  • Sick pay

To find out more, take a look at our benefits page – https://careers.chg.org.uk/catalyst-benefits/

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