Service Manager - Asset Strategy & Performance

Job Description

Reed Talent Solutions are currently working with a West Yorkshire based Local Authority to recruit a Service Manager - Asset Strategy and Performance on an initial three-month contract. The post-holder will support the Head of Service with the strategic,operational, and financial management of the service area.The successful candidate will deliver Strategic Management to the team, while supporting the Head of Service in developing long term plans to provide homes and services that put residents and communities first and are fit for the future.Role Information

• Location: Huddersfield
• 3-month contract with potential for extension
• Paye Hourly Rate: £25.13 (Salary equivalent £49,004)
• LTD Daily Rate: Circa £240 (Inside IR35)

Key Responsiblities

• Lead and coordinate the strategy and performance functions of the Assets, Building Safety and Development Teams. Support the Head of Service in establishing performance management and monitoring regimes and delivering service improvement and coordinationactivities.
• Chair the Assets Programme Management Board ensuring oversight and coordination of all capital delivery projects. Establishing suites of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to provide transparency, ensure statutory compliance and support management of servicesand projects.
• Work with other Service Managers to ensure that programmes of inspection and work are delivered on time and that specification and procurement processes are compliant and support the achievement of standards.
• To ensure that the service is fit for purpose and fit for the future by identifying best practice, emerging good practice, legislative requirements and sector innovation and applying these to the delivery of services in H&N.
• Developing policies and procedures required to deliver the Asset Strategy action plan and other service strategies. Ensuring that policies and procedures remain up to date and that working practices reflect requirements, identifying and delivering changesto processes and practices.
• Support workforce planning through skills and training audits and assessments ensuring legislative requirements are met.

Essential Criteria

• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to express effectively and sensitively, in person, via the telephone and in writing, with a range of stakeholders, internal and external
• Demonstrate a proven track record of delivering targets and goals within operational plans
• Skill and ability to work with partner organisations to achieve common goals
• Previous experience of data input and maintenance of databases and/or Contact Management Systems
• Literacy and numeracy to a standard required to maintain accurate records and a good level of computer literacy to interrogate various software packages
• Knowledge of Health & Safety, Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding Legislation in relation to the role
• Able to work flexibly and be responsive to change to improve performance
• Good team working skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team coupled with the ability to work on one’s own to achieve results
• Proven experience and ability to understand the importance of budgetary control and proactively manage budgets