Housing Compliance Contracts Manager

We are recruiting an experienced Housing Compliance Contracts Manager to lead the delivery and management of a number of high-risk, safety-critical contracts across a large social housing portfolio. This is not a pure procurement role. The successful candidate will need strong experience managing live contracts and contractors within social housing, ideally across fire safety, building safety, cladding or wider compliance programmes. You will also be expected to lead procurement activity for new packages of work from specification through to mobilisation. The role will focus heavily on investigative and exploratory works relating to external wall systems, helping to identify risk, support remediation decisions and ensure buildings remain compliant with current safety requirements. Key responsibilities will include: Managing safety-critical contracts across a large residential portfolio Overseeing investigative works including FRAEWs, spandrel panel investigations, render and fa ade assessments and Fire Risk Assessments Managing contractor performance against KPIs, specifications, quality standards and programme milestones Leading end-to-end procurement exercises for new investigative and enabling works Developing scopes, specifications and internal procurement gateway reports Managing tendering, evaluation, contract award and mobilisation Administering live contracts and maintaining strong commercial oversight Managing budgets, forecasting expenditure and identifying ..... full job details .....