FirstPort (UK)
Senior Associate Director
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Role: Senior Associate Director
Location: 1 Position covering East of the UK and 1 Position covering West of the UK (regional travel required)
Salary: Competitive salary, plus a car allowance of £5,500 plus benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 5pm (35 hours per week)
Why FirstPort?
FirstPort, are on an ambitious journey to redefine excellence in UK residential property management. We are committed to elevating and resetting industry standards to be the most trusted and professional residential property management company.
By joining us as a Senior Associate Director you will play a pivotal role in achieving our vision:
- Impactful Work: You will directly support FirstPort’s mission to elevate industry standards and provide an exceptional service to our customers.
- Professional Growth: With access to accredited training and development programmes, you will be empowered to reach your potential.
- Supportive Environment: We foster a culture where collaboration and innovation thrive, ensuring you feel valued and supported every step of the way.
- A Future of Opportunity: Be part of a forward-thinking organisation that is shaping the future of residential property management in the UK.
At the core of everything we do are our leadership principles:
- Collaborative: We work together, combining expertise to deliver outstanding outcomes for our customers.
- Consistent: We deliver dependable results, building trust with customers and colleagues.
- Simple: We simplify the complex, ensuring our financial processes are straightforward and understood.
- Clear: We communicate with clarity, making information accessible and transparent to all stakeholders.
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Your Role, Your Impact
As a Senior Associate Director, You will manage a dynamic portfolio of properties across the UK, ensuring smooth operations and exceptional service delivery. Lead and inspire a team of property managers, fostering their growth through regular performance reviews, feedback, and coaching. Drive success by ensuring KPIs and SLAs are consistently achieved, while creating a supportive and high-performing team environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Setting the strategy for growth and commercial direction for your region.
- Leading and developing a regional team of property managers to deliver a high-quality property management service underpinned by core values and objectives.
- Meeting and liaising with clients and customers to ensure that we continue to exceed their expectations and deliver excellent customer service consistently.
- Working with the business development team to develop bids for new business and product development.
- Accountable for embedding new systems and processes, ensuring we continue to lead with technology across FirstPort.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Proven experience within the property management industry.
- Has led large, geographically dispersed operational teams to deliver a high-quality service and standards-led operation.
- Experienced in liaising with clients and customers, leading meetings.
- Strong commercial acumen: has preferably had P&L responsibility, is able to use data and insights to make decisions.
- Able to build and provide leadership to a large team, developing future leaders.
- Confident, articulate communicator – both orally and in writing; able to build relationships with all employees, from site-based colleagues to directors.
- Able to identify process inefficiencies and drive cultural and process improvement programmes.
- Experience in or an understanding of the property market.
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What’s in it for you?
Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We will provide you with the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages depending on the grade of your role, such as private medical insurance, pension contributions and life assurance. In addition, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you, and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health, including discounted gym membership for all colleagues.
Diversity
We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will ensure we make any adjustments that we can to support both through the recruitment and on-boarding process.
Ready to make a difference?
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make a difference we’d love to hear from you!
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK without restrictions, and documented evidence of eligibility will be required.
Join us at FirstPort, where we not only manage properties but strive to lead and transform the industry. Together, we can make a difference – for our customers, our colleagues, and the future of residential property management in the UK.
Elevate your career. Reset the standard. Join FirstPort.
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