Affordable Homes Project and Quality Manager - Midlands and North West England at Legal & General

Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Affordable Homes. With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector.

As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.

We’re recruiting for a Project and Quality Manager to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary 10% car allwoance and good benefits package.

This team is responsible for the delivery of affordable schemes and manages the time, quality, and costs associated with the builds

In this role, you will be covering sites across the Midlands and North West England

This will be a home-based role, but you will need to do site visits at least once a week, and the team often has weekly meetings in the office

What you'll be doing:

• Driving forward the construction and delivery of new homes
• Ensuring the quality of the project and that homes are built to the expected standard
• Visiting sites and completing snagging assessments
• Working closely with the legal and finance teams to ensure projects are correctly funded with no delays in payments
• Regularly speaking with developers and contractors to ensure that developments are being implemented in accordance with the agreed contract plans and programmes
• Supporting handovers and the completion of sales

Who we're looking for:

• Project management of housing and development schemes
• Prior experience of working at a housing association, local authority, or consultancy
• Good stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate with a range of different teams and professions
• Experience in finance management for affordable housing schemes
• Focused on delivering a high-quality project with maximum customer satisfaction

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart  

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.