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Contracts Manager

Densell Recruitment
Posted 22 days ago, valid for 21 days
Location

Crawley, West Sussex RH10 7GY, England

Salary

£48,000 - £57,600 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for a home-based Contracts Manager covering the Brighton, Crawley, and Leatherhead areas with a salary range of £38,000 to £45,000, plus a £5,000 car allowance and excellent benefits.
  • Candidates should have experience in managing property refurbishments or renovation projects, with a preference for those familiar with insurance claims or subsidence work.
  • A strong understanding of health and safety regulations, along with excellent customer service and organizational skills, is essential for this role.
  • The successful candidate will manage a caseload of property reinstatement projects while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards and managing contractors.
  • While insurance industry experience is desirable, a willingness to learn and a background in residential property work are key requirements, with opportunities for progression and training available.

Contracts Manager

Home-based

Brighton, Crawly, Leatherhead areas

£38,000 - £45,000 plus car / allowance (£5k) & excellent benefits

The successful Contracts Manager will be home-based and will need to reside in one of the following postcode areas BN, RH, KT, SW

Working as part of a strong team (both office & field based), dealing with property repairs (insurance reinstatement works) within a designated patch. Ideally, this would suit a Contracts Manager who is keen to expand their current skills and experience (residential repairs / extensions / renovations) into specialising within the insurance industry.

Insurance industry experience is not necessarily essential (although desirable) but you will need to be keen to learn the principals of insurance and have a background in dealing with residential property refurbishments/renovations.

There are genuine opportunities to progress into a more senior roles and/or train within the subsidence speciality over time (additional training & support can also be provided in terms of qualifications & memberships).

You will need to be very IT confident & will ideally have experience in building a scope of works using schedule of rates; if you have used a scoping tool/system this would be ideal.

Contracts Manager role and responsibilities

  • Manage a case load of property reinstatement projects (domestic & commercial)
  • Schedule repairs/redecoration works and produce scopes
  • Manage contractors and repairs projects to completion (inc. cost management)
  • Ensure Health & Safety / CDM compliance & carry out site audits
  • Identify new contractors for addition to the network as required
  • Performance manage/audit the contractors in your area

What skills/experience will you need?

Experience in contract managing property refurbishments / renovation projects is essential. Some insurance claim damage or subsidence experience/knowledge would be ideal as you will be dealing with the 'post subsidence stabilisation’ reinstatement works (i.e. crack repairs/redecoration etc.).

  • Experience working for a contractor/social housing provider dealing with residential repairs/renovations
  • Knowledge of insurance claims or fire/flood/water/structural damage to properties would be highly advantageous (not essential).
  • Working knowledge of; Asbestos Handling, CDM, DPA, H&S, Party Wall Act
  • You will need strong customer service, communication & organisational skills, be IT literate and have a full UK driving licence.

Additional Information

In addition to the salary (negotiable around £38-45k depending upon experience), the company provide some excellent additional benefits (car / allowance - £5k), pension, death in service etc.

We may not always be able to reply to every Contracts Manager applicant due to the volume of CVs received. However, we may keep your details on file for future relevant opportunities. If you think you have the relevant experience for this Contracts Manager role please apply clicking on the 'apply’ button below. By applying for the role, you will be sending us your personal data. Our Privacy Notice explains how we will use your personal data; this can be found on our website or you can request a copy.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.

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