Closing Date: 29th May 2026
Interviews will take place weeks commencing 8th June and 15th June
A bit about the role...
Working within the Market Engagement team, the Senior Manager – Market Engagement and Stakeholder Insight plays a key role in ensuring Homes England and the National Housing Bank have a strong, evidence led understanding of our market partners, their priorities, behaviours and experiences. This role sits at the heart of how stakeholder intelligence, qualitative research and relationship data are brought together to inform strategy, delivery and engagement across the Agency.
You will lead core programmes and activity that gather, analyse and translate stakeholder insight into clear, actionable intelligence for senior leaders, regional teams and delivery colleagues. Working closely with a wide range of internal teams – including Strategy, Research, Economics, Analysis, Communications and regional delivery colleagues – you will help ensure that decisions are informed by a rich understanding of the housing and regeneration market.
The Senior Manager roles also involves leading and developing key corporate engagement approaches, including the Agency’s Key Account Manager (KAM) programme, priority partner strategies and relationships with trade bodies and sectoral influencers. You will use CRM data, qualitative insight and engagement intelligence to identify risks, opportunities and gaps in our relationships and to recommend practical actions to strengthen Homes England’s impact and influence.
You will lead cross-Agency strategy development and delivery to address these gaps and deliver strong, strategic and intelligence-led relationships with priority stakeholders corporately across the housing and regeneration market.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on high profile, nationally significant activity in a growing organisation with a clear social purpose – influencing strategic decision-making, business development and delivery that directly support housing supply and regeneration outcomes across England
A bit about you…
You’ll be comfortable leading complex stakeholder insight, research and intelligence programmes in a multi stakeholder environment, with a strong focus on ensuring insight drives action and better decision making. You will be highly proficient in translating complex qualitative and quantitative data into clear, compelling insight for senior audiences.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient, confident working with Executive and Senior Leadership Teams, and able to manage challenge constructively. Your approach will be grounded in a strong understanding of the context in which Homes England and the housing market operates. You will enjoy working in an innovative, engaging way and be able to influence, negotiate and persuade across organisational boundaries.
You will be led by outcomes, ensuring that insight gathered is continually used and relevant to support business development, delivery and strategic decision making.
You will be experienced in relationship management, strategy development, and in working with a range of data and intelligence sources to drive decision-making and target engagement activity.
Who are we?
Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long‑term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What we offer...
As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK
You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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