This is a Full Time/Flexible Working, Permanent vacancy that will close in 20 days at 23:59 BST .
The Vacancy
We have a fantastic opportunity for an established Pre-Construction Director to join our Construction West team, based across the West of the UK with offices in both Manchester and Birmingham.
As a Senior Business Lead in Wates Construction, this role comes at a perfect time, where the successful candidate can take full accountability to shape, grow and develop the pre-construction strategy with the support of the newly formed leadership team.
As a work winning pre-construction specialist, we require someone who can embrace the Wates Pre-Construction Transformation Programme from pre bid through to the successful conversion of the second stage.
The successful candidate will align with the business plan as well as ensuring compliance with governance and process to enable the business unit to achieve sales budget. There is also a requirement to support business development activity to ensure future pipeline and actively participate in external networking.
This is an exciting time to grow our strategy, engage and motivate our teams to achieve success through excellently executed and considered bids.
As this role is pivotal to the success of the business unit we require:
* Excellent value-added customer relationships and management leading to ongoing work,
* Exceptional stakeholder management working in collaboration with our wider group and framework teams
* A passion for work winning
* A detailed strategic approach – through to execution in both work winning and PCSA conversion
* Leading by example supporting and upskilling the team where appropriate, driving continuous improvement in performance
* Resilience and adaptability responding to the business and customer needs.
* Experience in winning bids on projects between 10-100m
* A portfolio, evidencing successful bids through to growing sales
* Excellently executed presentations
* A drive to win with a great team spirit.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Competitive salary & profit share scheme
* Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
* Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
* Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
* Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
* Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.
If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies, discuss career opportunities in strict confidence or need anything to make our recruitment process easier, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly or via recruitment@wates.co.uk and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.
As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Awards
BEST PROJECT
BEST PROJECT
Inside Housing Development Awards
WINNER
WINNER
2022 Construction News Awards Winner
GOLD AWARD
GOLD AWARD
Investors in People 2022
GOLD AWARD
GOLD AWARD
Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards
TOP 50 EMPLOYERS
TOP 50 EMPLOYERS
2022 Top 50 Employers for Women
WINNER
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