Operations Director - Reading

We have a new opportunity for a Regional Operations Director to join our team within Vistry Thames Valley, at our Reading office. This role is ideal for a candidate with a proven track record as an Operations/Production/Construction or Technical Director and who has been involved in delivering mixed tenure residential developments from land acquisition to completion and beyond, both in the low-rise and mid-rise housing sectors. Your focus will be on all aspects of operational delivery from the inception of the region’s projects through to the fulfilment of all contractual obligations.

You will have excellent communication skills both written and verbal and have demonstrable experience in influencing and negotiating. We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.

What’s in it for you:

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits

In return, what we would like from you:

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• A wealth of experience working as a Managing Director or Operations/Construction/Technical Director.
• A strong operations and commercial leader with a proven track record of success working on new build housing contracts and multi-story residential apartment schemes.
• Experience of PLC policies and procedures relating to Safety / Quality / Employment and an overall Business Management System
• Strong technical knowledge of construction methodologies from inception to project completion and beyond.
• Understanding and competence of programme approach and software, including Coins and Keys
• Sufficiently competent in the use of IT to ensure processes, programmes and customer care initiatives are effectively followed.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and policies.
• Able to assess opportunities quickly and decipher their value.
• Able to address issues at the highest level within the regional business.
• A team player with the skills and intellect to make an effective contribution to the success and development of the Division.
• An established leader able to communicate at the highest level to make a difference and do the right thing.
• An innovative thinker with the ability to identify and drive through positive changes and feedback best practice.
• Focus on the importance of achievement of programme on business success.

Desirable:

• Degree Qualified

More about the Regional Operations Director role:

• New Business and Development: Provide advice and support in the securing of new work opportunities to ensure projects efficiently flow through the business and onto site. Provide oversight and identify and minimise design, technical and production risk on new schemes during the pre-commencement process. Ensure that best practice is passed between regional businesses. Work closely with the development and pre-con leads in each region to ensure the business procures sufficient new work to meet the business plan and in doing so track key dates through the development process.
• Pre-Construction and Design: Work with team to bring new sites into production in a timely and efficient way to meet business plan requirements. Provide direction and input into the design and technical matters on all residential and housebuilding developments. Ensure best practice is passed between regions all in line with the Group’s standardisation objectives. Ensure schemes are designed the ‘Vistry’ way and have the necessary approvals prior to start on site. Control and report on design and preconstruction programmes to ensure delivery on time, to budget and to highlight any risks at an early stage to the region. Commit to the highest standards of design, quality, safety, and client satisfaction and ensure that the regional businesses are doing the same.
• Construction and Sales: Provide direction and leadership to the business team on residential and housebuilding developments. Regularly monitor programmes to ensure delivery on time, to budget and to highlight any risks at an early stage to the Divisional team. Contribute to the value engineering and buildability of all projects. Commit to the highest standards of design, quality, safety, and client satisfaction. Have oversight that resources on sites are being effectively and efficiently managed. Drive programme and deliver to timescales by ensuring all interfacing departments work collaboratively.
• Commercial: Ensure that the highest levels of commercial control are being adopted by each region through procurement, on site delivery and post completion. Identify as early as possible any programme and therefore contractual risks that the region needs to be protected from. Support the region in any meetings required with poor performing subcontractors or those that may be commercially challenging.
• Customer Service: Work closely with the regions to ensure customer service levels are meeting or exceeding any targets set by the Group. Investigate and review any HBF surveys that do not meet the Group’s minimum requirements. Monitor the consistent application of the Group’s customer journey and compliance to NHQC standards.
• Health and Safety: Maintain the health and safety standards of the Division and the Group – drive continuous improvement. Ensure that relationships between the SHE team and regional business are appropriately developed and maintained.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us… We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach.

Join us in making Vistry.