Head of Compliance

Are you a compliance leader who can confidently translate complex legislation and regulatory requirements into practical, organisation-wide assurance frameworks? Have you successfully led teams and stakeholders to deliver excellence across key compliance areas such as gas, electrical, fire, asbestos, water safety, or wider asset safety disciplines? Are you passionate about ensuring customers live in safe, secure homes while driving continuous improvement, governance, and compliance performance?

We're looking for an exceptional Head of Compliance to lead our strategic approach to asset compliance and safety.

This is a pivotal leadership role where you'll provide direction, assurance, and oversight across all asset-related statutory and regulatory compliance activities. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring customers live in safe, secure, and compliant homes while giving the organisation confidence that risks are effectively managed and monitored.

As Head of Compliance, you will lead the development and implementation of robust compliance frameworks, policies, assurance processes, and governance arrangements, ensuring the highest standards are maintained across the organisation.

Location: Norwich

Hours: Full Time - 37 hpw - Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent

What You'll Be Doing

• leading the organisation's strategic approach to asset compliance and assurance.

• developing and embedding robust compliance frameworks, policies, and monitoring processes.

• overseeing compliance activities across key areas including:

  • Gas Safety

  • Electrical Safety

  • Fire Safety

  • Asbestos Management

  • Water Safety

  • Wider asset safety disciplines.

• providing expert compliance advice and clear direction to senior leaders and operational teams.

• delivering effective governance, reporting, and performance insight to support informed decision-making.

• leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.

• driving a culture of accountability, risk awareness, and continuous improvement.

• monitoring emerging legislation and regulatory developments to ensure ongoing compliance and best practice.

What You'll Bring

We're looking for a strategic and influential leader with significant experience in asset compliance, safety, and assurance.

You'll bring:

• strong technical and strategic knowledge of asset compliance legislation, regulatory standards, and best practice.

• experience designing and leading assurance frameworks, audit programmes, and compliance monitoring regimes.

• proven ability to identify risks, compliance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.

• experience building effective relationships with senior stakeholders, operational teams, and external partners.

• strong leadership experience with a track record of developing and motivating high-performing teams.

• excellent reporting, governance, and performance management capabilities.

• the confidence to challenge, influence, and drive positive change across an organisation.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

You will hold, or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience to, recognised compliance or property-related qualifications such as:

• Degree-level qualification, or

• NEBOSH qualification, or

• equivalent professional experience within asset compliance and safety management.

You should also have expertise across key compliance disciplines, including gas, electrical, fire, and wider asset safety areas.

For full information on the role and its responsibilities, click here to view the Head of Compliance - The Part I Play document.

Why Join Us?

Why join us? Because your expertise will matter on a truly national scale. Bromford Flagship LiveWest (BFL) manages around 120,000 homes, supports nearly 300,000 customers, and delivers more than 3,000 new affordable homes annually. As Head of Compliance, you'll have the opportunity to shape the safety and compliance agenda for one of the UK's most significant housing providers.

What We Offer

• competitive salary - £93000.00 per annum

• electric company vehicle

• fully flexible holiday

• family friendly policies

• health and wellbeing support

For full benefit details, click here .

How to apply

To apply please click "apply online" below. You will be asked to attach your CV (in MS Word or PDF format) and provide a supporting statement, outlining why you’re the right person for the job.

Important information

Closing Date: 16th August 2026 (Midnight)

First Interview Date: Friday 21st August 2026 via MS Teams

Second Interview Date: Wednesday 2nd September 2026 in person at our Norwich Office.

About Us
Bromford Flagship Livewest . By joining us, you become part of a one of the largest housing providers in the UK - delivering community-focused services across the East, Central and South West of England. We manage approximately 120,000 homes, serving around 300,000 customers, and with firm ambitions to deliver an additional 50,000 new homes by 2040.