Contracts Manager in Manchester

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Location: Hybrid and Didsbury, Manchester

Salary: up to £55,482

Full time: 35 hours per week / Permanent

Agile working with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office / on-site (Fully office-based throughout the training period)

About Us

Southway Housing Trust is a committed and forward-thinking community focused housing association dedicated to providing excellent homes and outstanding customer care. With a vision of Thriving Communities, Southway manages over 6,500 homes across Greater Manchester. Southway strives to reduce child poverty, loneliness and isolation and increase employment, social connectedness and pride in neighbourhoods. Our REACH values of Respect, Equity, Ambition, Compassion and Honesty reflect Southway's culture, how we deliver our services, and our relationships with customers, colleagues and partners. Southway values diversity in all aspects of its communities and operations.

The Role

We believe that everyone should have a decent place to live, because a good-quality home provides the foundations for people to thrive. By doing the basics brilliantly and investing wisely, we will make sure our homes are safe, warm, and sustainable for generations to come and ensuring every property reaches at least EPC Band C prior to 2030. We will secure funding for improvements by maximising grants and investing in retrofit works that reduce carbon emissions and lower energy bills for our customers. We are offering an exciting opportunity for a skilled Contracts Manager to join our Asset Management team. In this role, you will oversee the delivery of our Warm Homes programme, ensuring quality, compliance, performance and value for money through effective management of our principal contractor. You will contribute to ensuring that Southway Housing continues to strengthen our strategic partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. You will also play a key role in improving energy performance, reducing carbon emissions, and tackling fuel poverty through a fabric-first approach - helping our customers live in warm, affordable homes.

Candidates

We are looking for a confident and experienced contracts professional with a strong track record in managing property or asset-related contracts such as JCT measured term. You will lead the contract management of our Warm Homes programme, ensuring high standards, effective planning, and alignment with our five-year objectives. You will manage and support the Retrofit Surveyor, Community Engagement Officer, and Sustainability Coordinator to achieve targets and budgets, while driving improvements in team methods and processes to maximise performance and customer care. You will be responsible for preparing and submitting grant funding bids to the GMCA, ensuring all projects are delivered on time and within budget, maximising value for money.

This is an exciting opportunity and for the right person we offer a 35-hour week, competitive salary, excellent contributory pension scheme, flexible working and 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days.

The role requires a full UK driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle, as travel between sites and meetings within South Manchester area is essential.

Closing Date: 04 January 2026

Interview Date: w/c 12 January 2026

Strictly no agencies.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from suitably skilled people from all sectors of the community. All applicants who have a disability or from an ethnic minority background or ex armed forces that meet the minimum essential criteria for the post will be invited to interview. If you have a disability or are ex armed forces, please tell us about this on your application form. Please let us know about any special arrangements you would like us to make if you are invited in for an interview.