DIVISIONAL MANAGING DIRECTOR – REPAIRS / MAINTENANCE (SOCIAL HOUSING)
Location: Northern Home Counties / East Midlands Border. The role requires regional and national travel.
Salary: £200,000‑£220,000 base + Performance Bonus + Benefits (total package potential £300,000).
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and optimise a live portfolio of contracts across multiple clients and regions.
* Strengthen performance, improve consistency, and maximise commercial outcomes.
* Drive accountability across the operation, ensuring service delivery, margin and client outcomes.
* Maintain control over cost, quality and performance, identifying issues early and acting decisively.
* Engage directly with clients, ensuring rapid issue resolution and high service standards.
* Set the tone for pace, standards and accountability across the division.
* Deliver measurable improvements in contract performance and operational control within 6‑12 months.
Candidate Profile – Core Experience & Attributes
* Operational leader with experience leading large, complex service operations.
* Managed multi‑million‑pound P&Ls and achieved measurable improvements in performance and profitability.
* Hands‑on, decisive, commercially aware and comfortable under pressure.
* Strong operational grip across distributed teams and proven ability to diagnose and fix performance issues quickly.
* Direct, clear communicator with a visible, credible leadership style.
* Experience in environments where service, cost and delivery are constantly visible (property services, facilities management, utilities, multi‑site operations).
Selection Process & Expectations
* Demonstrable tangible improvements in operational performance and margin delivery.
* Evidence of cost control, contract performance and customer satisfaction impact.
* Strong leadership of teams, succession development and measurable impact on client retention.
* Evaluation of commercial discipline and resilience in a high‑accountability environment.
Benefits & Environment
* Base Salary: £200,000 – £220,000.
* Performance Bonus linked to delivery and profitability.
* Benefits package as part of a total package of about £300,000.
* Entrepreneurial, fast‑paced, results‑driven culture with high accountability.
* Opportunity to influence performance delivery at scale within a growing business.
Why this role
This is a scale role in an organisation that has already achieved strong performance; the need is for a leader who can step in, take control and deliver operational excellence from day one.
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