Investment Planning Manager

Join us as an Investment Planning Manager at Thirteen Group! Are you someone who is passionate about data and planning management, who can get the most out of your team and colleagues? Would you love to oversee improvements to home quality and make a real difference for customers?

Role Overview: Thirteen Group is on the lookout for an innovative and collaborative Investment Planning Manager to lead our Investment Planning service. This crucial role will ensure we provide good quality homes and places for our customers by exceeding service and regulatory expectations through delivery of the corporate and asset strategies. You’ll support the effective and efficient management of the portfolio so that the optimum investment in properties can be achieved and develop comprehensive and robust 5-year and 30-year investment plans.

This is a hybrid role, so you’ll work mainly from home and at least one day a week from our fantastic office at Hudson Quay in Middlesbrough. We’ll need you to be flexible around business and team needs, so you may need to come into the office more frequently when required for key meetings.

Thirteen Benefits:

• Salary - £58,545 per annum (pay award pending)
• Annual leave – starting at 28 days and rising to 31 days after three years, a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
• Pension – up to 17% contributions (flexible contribution rates of up to 7% colleague and up to 10% employer).
• Simply Health – save money on common health expenses and get access to health and wellbeing support services.
• T’dar – our Discount and Reward platform giving you huge savings on everyday brands. Opportunities to buy and sell annual leave.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead on the development of the 5-year and 30-year portfolio investment planning activities, incorporating financial planning and design.
• Manage the Stock Condition team to collect brilliant data held in the property management system. You’ll ensure that our data is relevant, up-to-date and of good quality.
• Liaise and consult with stakeholders to ensure, where possible, that investment strategies and programmes are properly co-ordinated with business needs.
• Develop investment models which underpin the corporate strategy to achieve high quality, sustainable, carbon reduced and desirable homes for customers.
• Produce reports that inform on performance, highlight initiatives and track progress.

About You: We are looking for a great colleague who wants to work with us to deliver fantastic customer outcomes. You’ll have experience of stock condition and data management. You’ll be able to identify DHS Fails, HHSRS risks, create Stock Condition Survey pipelines and build 30 year planned investment programmes, budgeting and reforecasting. You’ll be confident understanding and interrogating data, information and reports to solve complex planning and building issues, to ensure delivery of our ambitious targets and quality homes for customers. Skills to present and provide practical solutions, whilst working to pressured timescales and cost deadlines. Your detailed understanding of regulatory requirements, investment planning, building standards and net-zero principles will also be key. You’ll hold a relevant professional qualification, at a minimum of HNC or degree level, in building surveying, construction or housing management, or equivalent. Ideally, you’ll be a current registered member of an appropriate institute e.g. CIOB, RICS.

Why Thirteen Group? We’re more than just a housing association – we’re a community builder. As the largest housing association in the North East and among the top 25 nationally, we manage over 34,000 properties. Join a team that’s local at heart but welcomes talent from everywhere. Be part of an organisation that values diversity and inclusivity. Be a part of a company that offers tailored support services, going beyond just housing solutions.

Interested? For more details, please refer to the attached documents. If you’d like to talk more about the role please contact Graeme Hoggins, Head of Investment Planning on 07796 964 357 for an informal discussion.

Are You Ready for a Rewarding Challenge? Join us at Thirteen Group and be a part of our vision to improve lives every day. APPLY NOW and start your journey towards making a meaningful impact in our community!

As part of our hiring process, if you’re successful we’ll need to verify your right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not a Skilled Worker Sponsoring Employer at this time.