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Lead Excellence as a Divisional Operations Director: Transforming Student Living Across a Vast Landscape! Ready to make a lasting impact on student living experiences across a large geographical area? Homes for Students is seeking an ambitious Divisional Operations Director to lead a team of Operations Managers, ensuring operational excellence, client satisfaction, and outstanding customer experiences. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to drive innovation, set new standards, and shape the future of student living. Your role is to ensure all KPIs are met, and set the tone of outstanding customer experience, customer satisfaction, and exceptional health and safety. You will create and ensure accountability throughout the team, and have responsibility for, and ownership of, all KPIs, processes, and aspects of property, client, and customer management.
Job Responsibility:
Lead, manage, and motivate your team of Operations Managers
Manage the KPI performance of your team of Operations Managers with strong, supportive, and inspiring leadership
Devise, implement, and utilise processes to drive positive behaviours and outcomes
Hold the team to account, breeding a culture of accountability and ownership throughout your team
Hold regular 1-1s with your team to set stretching, but realistic SMART goals and objectives and continually review progress, and breed accountability
In line with the business plan, drive operational performance through planning and execution, and by establishing and communicating clear goals and priorities, developing, and coaching a high performing team, and ensuring accountabilities are clearly assigned
Set and manage standards with planned, constructive meetings, visits, audits of properties and property standards, audits of processes, robust but supportive coaching, constructive use of PVR, and ensuring that safe working practices and high standards are always in place
Ensure a culture of continuous improvement is paramount, with coaching, training, and development of your team, and ensuring this approach flows throughout their teams and the properties
Ensure comprehensive cascade of your approach and ideals to ensure the themes, direction, and tone of excellence are felt throughout all team members, and that all residents receive an outstanding experience and service
Influence sales performance throughout your team and wider team, the properties, including outstanding rebooking, as well as ensuring a positive environment that encourages positive sales, rebooking and high levels of satisfaction
Drive operational excellence in all aspects, including customer satisfaction and resident experience, ensuring maintenance and improvement in Net Promoter Scores and other satisfaction metrics
Support the Operations Managers and wider property teams with customer satisfaction issues, and act as the senior escalation point for complaints and customer-related issues
Manage the client relationships in a proactive manner, based on the requirements of the business and the client, ensuring appropriate regular meetings, calls, feedback, and communication protocols are in place through your team of Operations Managers, and ensuring reporting is provided on time
Lead on, and manage, Health & Safety Audit and Fire Risk Assessment processes, as well as manage and monitor day to day health and safety and statutory compliance processes through your teams
Ensure 100% adherence throughout your team with use of company software systems, including Link, KLIQ, Navision, Kinetic, Lavanda and other systems that may be in use
Lead the creation of ‘ground-up’ annual budget processes with your team of Operations Managers to ensure robust performance and areas to improve year on year
Ensure lifecycle plans are created, implemented, and managed in line with client expectations, budgets, ESG criteria, and investment approach
Proactively suggest enhancements to the asset, and feed into asset management plans and delivery with the client team
Requirements:
Extensive experience of multi-site management, and team management
Experience of management within PBSA, BTR/PRS/Residential, Co-Living, Facilities, Hotels, Hospitality
Experience of client management and client liaison at a senior level
Strong understanding of facilities management
Strong experience in customer service and its principles
Strong, demonstrable background and good understanding of health & safety and fire safety
Experience of recruitment of senior managers
Demonstrable experience of team performance management and development of high-performing teams
Nice to have:
Understanding and experience of Asset Management beneficial
Understanding and experience of principles of Real Estate investment beneficial
Background in financial services beneficial
What we offer:
Generous holiday package: 25 days, plus bank holidays, for work-life balance (pro-rata for our part time colleagues)
Enhanced family leave packages for the important things in life
Exclusive retail discounts to make your money go further
Celebrate your birthday with a well-deserved day off
Car leasing scheme for a comfortable commute
Cycle-to-work scheme to stay active and eco-friendly
2 charity days per year to make a difference in the community