Location: Regent Road
Salary: £37,127 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job Type: Permanent
Why this role would be great for you
If you love a role where you get to drive up standards, solve puzzles, and make things run better than ever, this is your role. As an Asset Manager, you’re not just maintaining a portfolio—you’re turning good into great. You’ll mix strategy with creativity, numbers with people, and long‑term planning with quick wins. It’s a role where you get to say, “I made that better,” and see the results.
As the Assets Manager you will take personal ownership of introducing a structured, evidence-based approach to managing our housing stock across all 1,152 units. This means commissioning and completing stock condition surveys, developing planned maintenance programmes, coordinating cyclical works and building the organisational knowledge and systems we need to protect and sustain our properties over the long term.
This is a role for someone who is comfortable building something from the ground up, who takes genuine ownership of the challenge in front of them and who understands that good asset management is both a regulatory expectation and a financial imperative for the organisation. It is a role that requires full ownership of the organisation’s asset management approach, including building systems, maintaining data accuracy and ensuring delivery against planned maintenance objectives. Over time you’ll become the organisation’s primary source of asset intelligence, developing a structured, consistent and audit-ready asset management approach.
What your week may look like
- Reviewing stock condition data, analysing trends, and determining investment priorities based on risk, safety, cost, and regulatory requirements
- Developing, maintaining and ensuring the accuracy of the asset register across all properties
- Providing assurance reports for SLT and Board
- Developing and delivering a structured multi-year planned maintenance programme, including the frameworks, templates and processes required
- Coordinating and overseeing planned and cyclical works -including decoration and grounds maintenance – ensuring they are completed on time, on budget and to the required standard
- Monitoring planned maintenance delivery, evaluating completed works, and taking corrective action where works fall behind schedule or do not meet expectations
- Meeting contractors, landlords and managing agents to review property condition and progress works
- Monitoring and managing leased property condition to minimise dilapidation risk and ensure lease obligations are met
- Maintaining a dilapidation risk register and proactively managing risks across leased properties
- Supporting mobilisation of new properties, ensuring condition information, documentation and asset data are complete and accessible
- Ensuring property and asset information is fully recorded and maintained, reducing reliance on individual knowledge
- Supporting budget planning through the development of long-term maintenance cost projections
- Producing and reviewing asset performance and investment reports, acting as the organisation’s lead source of insight on property condition and investment needs
- Overseeing the Housekeeping Team Leader and ensuring high cleaning standards
- Ensuring asset management practices and data are aligned with regulatory expectations and can provide clear evidence of compliance
- Working closely with Facilities and Health & Safety functions to ensure planned, reactive and compliance activities are aligned and coordinated
What We Can Offer You
Working with You Matter comes will a whole host of benefits. We hope that people will find personal fulfilment and purpose by working with alongside people in our services. Our teams are compassionate and supportive, fostering a strong sense of community. With opportunities for professional growth, You Matter offers training to support your role and personal development. For a full list of benefits see here: Careers Page | You Matter.
The skills we are looking for
EXPERIENCE
- Experience in asset management, planned maintenance or property investment planning
- Experience producing asset data, reports or cost projections to inform strategic decision-making
- Experience commissioning or conducting stock condition surveys
- Experience developing or managing planned maintenance programmes
- Experience managing contractors delivering planned or cyclical works
- Experience managing or overseeing service delivery through team leaders (including cleaning or housekeeping functions)
KNOWLEDGE
- Understanding of building components, lifecycles and maintenance planning
- Knowledge of asset management principles and long-term investment planning
- Understanding of regulatory expectations in housing asset management
COMMUNICATION
- Ability to present complex data clearly to non-technical audiences
- Strong communication skills for influencing senior leaders and stakeholders
- Ability to build relationships with landlords, agents and contractors
EMPATHY and RESPECT
- Understands the importance of maintaining high-quality living environments
- Promotes dignity and respect through well-maintained and clean housing
COMMITMENT
- Takes full ownership of building asset management systems and processes
- Proactively identifies risks and implements solutions
ORGANISATION
- Highly methodical and detail-focused
- Able to manage long-term programmes while maintaining day-to-day oversight
COMPUTER LITERACY
- Strong capability in managing and analysing data within asset or compliance systems
- Experience maintaining structured records and reporting
- Experience maintaining asset data systems and ensuring accuracy of property and investment records
What is a nice to have
- Experience in social housing or regulated environments
- Relevant qualification (RICS, CIOB, HNC/HND or similar)
- Knowledge of asset management regulatory standards
- Experience managing leased properties and dilapidation risk
- Experience with asset management or compliance systems
Even if you don’t feel that you have all the relevant skills and “nice to haves” we would still like to hear from you and invite you to fill out our application form.
You Matter is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
