Visiting Development Manager in Brighton

Location: Brighton, East Sussex

Salary: £24,479.00 per annum, plus benefits

Hours: Monday‑Friday 9am‑5pm (35 hours per week)

FirstPort is the UK’s leading property management company, caring for our customers’ homes across England, Wales and Scotland. With over four decades of experience and over 3,100 employees, FirstPort works with developers, investors, freeholders and over 1,600 Resident Management Companies.

Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain a high profile around the development/office, ensuring our residents are checked within our requirements.
• Carry out daily checks ensuring the building is safe and secure; maintain records in line with internal procedures and keep all data protected and secure at all times.
• Keep communal areas, gardens and grounds clean and maintained through effective management of contractors.
• Be responsible for all works being completed, raising orders, managing contractors, monitoring progress and signing off completion.
• Encourage and support the formation of a Residents Association and work with them to enhance the customer experience for residents.
• Build a sense of community by encouraging and supporting a Social Committee to plan and run social events for all residents.
• Build and maintain links with residents’ family members, local authorities, doctors, social workers and health authorities as required.
• In the event of an emergency, call the appropriate response team or authorities.
• Assist with sales listed with our partner company Retirement HomeSearch, make new residents feel welcome and help them settle in; where possible be present to welcome them.
• Work across your local peer team of Development Managers for advice and day‑to‑day support and travel to team/company meetings on a monthly/annual basis.

About you:

• Customer service: a passion for providing an exceptional level of customer service at all times, ideally in a face‑to‑face environment.
• Communication: a natural communicator, with the ability to resolve issues and complaints effectively.
• Health & Safety: an understanding of the importance of health & safety, experience of dealing with challenging or emergency situations.
• IT: able to operate Microsoft Office applications and confident in learning new systems.
• Administration: organised, methodical and experience of keeping accurate records.
• Personal: an outgoing personality, with the ability to build professional relationships with colleagues and customers, self‑motivated, pro‑active, team oriented and innovative.

The Benefits:

We’ll provide you with all the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages depending on the grade of your role, such as private medical insurance, pension contributions and life assurance. We also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you, and your family, make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health, including discounted gym membership for all colleagues.

Diversity:

We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will ensure we make any adjustments that we can to support both through the recruitment and on‑boarding process.