Property and Technical Manager

L&G Affordable Homes (L&GAH) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Legal & General, tasked with bringing a much-needed increase in the supply of affordable homes through the use of institutional capital to the UK social housing sector.

As a business with ambitious plans to scale-up, our growth is rapid and our model aims to capture and use data digitally to drive service quality and operating efficiency.

We are looking for a Property and Technical Manager to join the LGH team, in this role you will be responsible for is to ensure that the end to end approach to asset management is robust and delivers the best commercial and quality outcomes to the business and its customers.

You'll have the opportunity to use your expertise in residential housing, to work internally and with managing agents, gathering and reviewing data so that we can gain a more thorough understanding of the buildings and assets that we have. As the role evolves, you will work to establish a baseline for the business, as well as using your information and expertise will play a part in advising on future acquisitions.

Duties include:

• Work across the business to ensure the appropriate levels of asset and component data is captured pre handover from Developers and external stakeholders in the most efficient way possible.
• Work with Development team, Contracts team and external partners to ensure asset and component data is maintained and assured through the component lifecycle including repairs and maintenance, servicing and planned replacement.
• Review and assure approach to servicing and planned maintenance proposed and delivered by Management providers and external partners
• Work with Data team to ensure asset data assurance.
• Capture, evaluate and review product lifecycles and replacement costs in line with industry and market conditions
•  Development and review of standard products and specifications considering routes to market and customer insight.
• Consider customer insight around quality of home identifying where greatest value can be delivered and where product improvements can be made
•  Monitor performance at asset, building, archetype, contract and portfolio level and assist in any lessons learned to ensure asset optimisation
• Support the Head of Investment and Compliance work with Finance and the wider business to contribute to Business Planning assumptions for long term asset investment.
• Support the Head of Investment and Compliance and Head of Sustainability to consider retrofit works as part of our goal in achieving Net Zero Carbon.

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be a self starter than can work under your own initiative. As we are still scaling up as a business, you'll be curious and creative to help shape this role and the department as it continues to grow. Due to the variety of stakeholders you'll have, you'll need to have expertise in this area, and the confidence to communicate and negotiate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders. See below the experience we'd like you to have:

• Strong academic background (RICS advantageous), with experience in residential property management and property surveying
• Experience of asset optimisation and the factors which drive efficient asset management.
• Strong technical expertise of the range of products, specifications, costs and product lifecycles in affordable housing
• Experience of developing major works programmes at asset and portfolio level.
• Experience of working with Developers and residential property managers
• Working in an environment where collaboration, change and process development is ongoing and evolving.

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.