Strategic Partnerships Manager

Job Title: Strategic Partnerships Manager

Salary: £65,000 plus car allowance of £6,200

Job Location: Homebased with travel as required

Closing date: 15th February 2024

Telephone Screening interviews: 22nd – 28th February 2024

Assessment Centre: 6th March 2024 (Bradford)

About Us

We are the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England. We manage 60,000 homes for people in later life across almost 1,700 sites and operate in over 85% of local councils in England. Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.

As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our residents at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.

And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.

We are committed to delivering high-quality services to our residents. We believe in building strong partnerships with like-minded organizations to ensure our residents receive the best care and support possible.

Why Join the Property Delivery Team?

We are diverse team of over 100 colleagues delivering resident focused property solutions. We operate through a team of 50 surveyors each with a defined group of locations. Each surveyor is responsible for between 30 and 40 locations.

This is an exciting time to join us as we conclude procurement of 15-year, £1.7bn contracts. The 8 new contracts will provide a transformational approach to how we deliver services to our residents and realise efficiencies for Anchor. To equip Anchor with the skills and capacity to realise the benefits of these contracts we are recruiting to various new roles!

If you are as passionate as we are about making a positive impact, value holistic property management, and want to contribute to the well-being of older people, now is the time to join our team.

The Role

As we conclude in July 2024 the procurement of £1,7bn 15-year strategic partnerships with a new supply chain we are seeking three Strategic Partnership Managers. You will be responsible for developing and nurturing two strategic partnerships with organisations in a specific geographic region. These partnerships will have a contract value ranging from £20-£35 million per annum. Your role will focus on ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and alignment with Anchor's values. You will also play a crucial part in identifying opportunities and managing risks to drive the strategic growth of our partnerships.

Your responsibilities will include overseeing contract management arrangements, adhering to NEC and/or JCT standards, and acting as the responsible Contract Administrator or Service Manager. This role will safeguard the commercial interests, contract management requirements, and contractual obligations of Anchor, particularly concerning repairs, investment, and M&E services across our portfolio of Housing and Care properties.

Accountabilities will include:

• Creating and maintaining a robust reporting infrastructure to effectively manage contract arrangements.
• Building strong, long-term partnerships by leading Core Group meetings and communication channels.
• Identifying potential cost savings within each contract and collaborate with our partners, commercial, and procurement teams to realize these savings.
• Working closely with and support property delivery teams to ensure contract performance requirements are met.
• Managing contract risk and issues logs and opportunity registers.
• Overseeing contract mobilization.

About You:

To be successful in this role we’d like you to have:

Experience and Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of Partnering Contract Management Experience.
• Recent experience in commercial and contract management of NEC and/or JCT contracts.
• Experience in cost-planned investment, compliance services, and/or reactive maintenance work in the social housing sector, based on current market costs.
• Proven experience working within the social housing maintenance and planned investment sector, whether on the contractor side or client side.
• Minimum degree qualification in a building-related discipline or appropriate relevant experience (essential).
• MRICS/MCOIB status (desirable).

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.