Person Specification
Job Title: Executive Director, Assets and Growth
The following requirements are essential unless marked * which indicates they are desirable.
Education and Qualifications
- Relevant professional qualification or qualified by experience to an equivalent level.
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience and Knowledge
- Track record in leadership and corporate responsibility in a fast paced and changing environment, tenacious in pursuing opportunities.
- Experience of prioritising new business initiatives to ensure available resources are maximised.
- Experience of strategic financial and risk appraisals for business opportunities.
- Experience of business planning, strategic planning, setting objectives and effective monitoring of performance.
- Experience of successfully developing multi-million-pound housing developments on time and to budget and an understanding of the management of a commercial contractor e.g. commercial acumen demonstrated within a working environment.
- Experience that demonstrates the ability to lead sustainable organisational improvement and drive cultural change in a constantly evolving organisation.
- Deep understanding of the external commercial and political environment in the sector and ability to translate that into action.
- An understanding of asset management and maximisation within a building / construction environment.
- Experience of developing a strong customer driven service culture.
- Financial and commercial awareness and the ability to analyse complex information with clarity;
- High level of skill in strategic and analytical thinking; ability to make critical decisions.
- Well-developed understanding of the dynamics of business and financial management within a complex organisation.
- An understanding of diversified tenure portfolio management and development of new tenure products in new areas
- Proven experience of successful relationship management and developing external partnerships to enhance business opportunities.
- Proven change management and project management expertise.
- Experience of dealing with sales and marketing of house sales.
- Significant experience in continuous improvement or business process re-engineering*
Abilities and Skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an approachable style.
- Strong negotiator and influencer, able to work intuitively with a wide range of stakeholder and secure buy-in.
- Able to demonstrate commercial acumen and entrepreneurial skills which enable the Group to leverage best value.
- Proactively demonstrates a strong commitment to equality and diversity.
- Demonstrates organisational skills with ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives and meet conflicting demands
- Numerate and data rational; effectively gathers, analyses and utilises information
- Strong attention to detail and identification and mitigation of risks
