Leading a range of strategic and operational projects focussed on the housing sector, including: -

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• Strategic business cases

  • Providing independent support to executives to develop and deliver complex and robust business cases: -

    • Investment planning

    • Team and wider organisation structures

    • Support service requirements

    • Procurement and supply chain needs

    • New repair & maintenance business set-up

    • In/out (right) sourcing of activities to meet strategic business requirements​

• Safety & Compliance assurance​​

  • In-depth review and reporting of findings with associated recommendations and action plans​​

  • Critical data and record management review, assessment and recommendations

  • Strategic target through to operational planning management, meeting Board and Executive needs

• Environmental investment 

  • Options ​appraisal linked to business planning

  • Enabling clarity of potential investment options and the respective costs and wider risks

• Recruitment, Coaching and Mentoring

  • Supporting recruitment to key positions​

  • Identifying training and development needs for key team members

  • Supporting personal development through formal and informal coaching and mentoring 

• Procurement leadership

  • Identifying key procurement projects and supporting their delivery

  • Opportunity analysis, strategic approach development,  target-setting, project initiation, process management, team development, handover to business as usual

• Improving R&M operations 

  • Strategic end-to-end review of the repairs & maintenance offer, design, resourcing and management

  • Undertaking risk assessments and developing action planning for improvement

• Planned investment program management

  • Assuring customer, safety, financial and other required outcomes are met through proactive management of complex projects​

• Forward business planning and project programming

  • Providing assurance of financial and operational capacity to meet strategic objectives​

• Procurement leadership for substantial Materials & Logistics requirements for an in-house maintenance team

• Voids process review, options generation, improvement and fine-tuning. Key outcomes include: -

  • Reducing

    • turnaround-times

    • cost of service

    • productivity of workforce & contractors

    • uncertainty of outcomes

  • Improving

    • costs

    • productivity of workforce & contractors

    • communication between stakeholders

    • predictability of capacity, returns, cost forecasting

• Budget alignment

  • Providing robust forward business models to enable effective decision making and setting  of deliverable expectations within limited budgets​

  • Clarity through communication and coaching to ensure widespread understanding of budgets, cost, requirements 

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