Managing Director in Sunderland

The role of the Managing Director is to lead the business unit, ensuring that short- and long-term targets are achieved, and business operations support the Taylor Wimpey Business Strategy. The MD will be in charge of setting a long-term Strategy and deliver this through a business plan that maximises current assets and develops the future pipeline of opportunities to enhance returns. You will need to drive a continuous improvement, customer centric agenda, challenging the status quo and proactively identifying operational enhancements. Drive operational improvement and reduce cost through efficiency and value improvement. And ensure that the business is bought into and clear about the company direction.

Primary Responsibilities

• Business Performance & Growth: Effectively manage the business unit to achieve the financial and non-financial targets agreed; ensuring decisions are taken in the best interest of the group. Critically assess, acquire, and develop land opportunities to ensure a sufficient pipeline to achieve divisional growth plans.
• Leadership and Culture: Provide strong and inspiring leadership across the business unit. Drive employee engagement through a collaborative and empowering leadership approach. Drive sustainable performance through active ownership of the talent and performance management agenda for the business unit. Develop high performance teams by ensuring the recruitment, development, and retention of high potential people within leadership roles.
• Operational Excellence: Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the business unit ensuring practices and processes are regularly reviewed, enhanced, and optimised. Maintain a close working relationship across the business unit by regularly undertaking site visits. Ensure all current and new H&S standards are adopted and actively maintained in line with our strategic goals and regulations, and that all employees always remain safe. Ensure awareness of political, industry related and environmental developments which may impact TW.
• Customer Delivery: Embed and drive a customer focused culture by driving sustainable improvements and sharing best practises as a consequence of customer feedback and insight. Drive a continuous improvement culture which improves the customer experience and responds to consumer trends locally.

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements:

• Experience of stakeholder engagement and building community contacts.
• Effective understanding of at least two other operational functions.
• Ability to establish a strategic plan for the business and to deliver it.
• Entrepreneurial skills, breadth of view beyond traditional approaches.
• Strong networker, totally committed to community involvement.
• Land acquisition knowledge.
• High standard of financial literacy & analytical skills, of financial returns.

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey: We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture; we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home. We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work. If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.

Inclusivity Statement: As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.