Assistant Manager - Portfolio

Assistant Manager – Portfolio

Vacancy closing date - 7th February 

Interviews week commencing - 10th February 

A bit about the role...

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team working with Sharon Fournier-Shelton in the Portfolio Management, Investments Directorate. As an Assistant Portfolio Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing our Lending Alliances within a national organisation dedicated to social purpose.

Based in the North of England, you’ll be part of our seasoned real estate finance team, overseeing the Agency’s National Lending Alliances portfolio. This involves providing financing to developers to create high-quality homes in well-designed communities. Your role will be crucial in managing and administering these Lending Alliances.

Our Portfolio Management team is focused on delivery and committed to providing first-class customer service. We address issues informally whenever possible, using innovative and creative approaches to solve challenges. Sharon values collaboration and diversity in experience and perspective, fostering effective decision-making and problem-solving within her team.

This is an opportunity to influence the future of the housing market in England and build a career in a rapidly growing national organisation with a real social mission. You’ll work with key stakeholders and advisers as part of a professional real estate finance team, ensuring effective loan portfolio management and resolving issues efficiently. This will help increase housing supply in England and create a more balanced, diversified, and robust real estate sector.

The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects around ensuring Homes England is as efficient as possible. There are some exciting projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to help Homes England deliver its mission whilst bringing innovative solutions to an area identified for growth.

A bit about you…

Your primary role will be to support the Senior Portfolio Manager(s) in managing the lending alliances, ensuring first-class customer service to our stakeholders in a timely manner. You will be adept at multitasking and constantly seeking ways to improve and innovate. You’ll also assist the wider Portfolio Management team with residential development issues, aiming for the efficient delivery of homes. Proficiency in IT systems, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with strong verbal and written communication skills, is essential.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a front-line team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced real estate professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

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. 

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, 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. 

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.