Senior Project Manager - Property

Senior Project Manager

Location: North West England

Job Type: Full Time | Permanent

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £66,200 per annum (inc car allowance)

Are you an experienced property professional with a passion for delivering large-scale investment and planned maintenance programmes?

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Property & Assets team. In this pivotal role, you'll lead and manage a technical team responsible for delivering customer-focused planned maintenance programmes that improve homes, communities and customer experiences. You'll oversee projects from inception through to completion, ensuring compliance, value for money and high-quality outcomes.

Working closely with internal stakeholders, contractors and supply chain partners, you'll play a key role in maintaining and enhancing our housing portfolio, ensuring properties continue to meet regulatory requirements and the Decent Homes Standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team delivering cost-effective and customer-focused planned maintenance programmes.
• Manage projects from inception to completion within agreed cost, quality and timescale parameters.
• Oversee contractor and supply chain performance, ensuring delivery against key performance indicators and value objectives.
• Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including CDM Regulations, Section 20 legislation, Building Safety requirements and Decent Homes Standards.
• Develop programme briefs, specifications and procurement packages for planned investment works.
• Manage project budgets, contractor valuations, forecasting and financial reporting.
• Collaborate with property, sustainability, asset strategy and M&E teams to achieve wider organisational objectives.
• Build strong relationships with customers, contractors and internal stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and excellent service delivery.
• Ensure accurate project records and documentation are maintained, including health and safety and contractual information.

Requirements

Essential

Significant experience within the property maintenance, construction or housing sector with a proven track record of managing teams and contractors.

Strong project management, surveying and contract management expertise.

Experience managing large budgets, financial forecasting and contractor payments.

• Knowledge of construction contracts, including JCT and NEC frameworks.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation including CDM Regulations, Building Safety requirements, HHSRS and Decent Homes Standards.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence, challenge constructively and build trusted relationships across diverse teams.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Desirable

• HNC qualification in Construction or equivalent relevant experience.
• Professional membership or working towards a qualification such as MCIOB or MRICS.
• Site safety qualification such as SMSTS or IOSH Managing Safely.

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate their legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future

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.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

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
• Free Blue Light Card

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 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, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.