Rehoboth Properties is looking for an experienced General Manager to organise and oversee the daily operations of the company. The GM will be the one to ensure that the business is well-coordinated and productive by managing its procedures and coaching its people. The area of responsibility for this role is very wide and thus requires thorough knowledge of various company processes especially to do with the housing sector.
The ideal candidate must be competent and able to plan many different kinds of operational activities. They must be an excellent leader who can discover the most efficient ways to run and grow the business. The goal is to safeguard and augment the efficiency of the company’s operations to facilitate accelerating development and long-term success.
This is a high-profile role reporting to the CEO. You will devise the strategy to grow the business further via new business opportunities, new products & new markets. Within your remit you will drive construction operations whilst taking an active role visiting with key customers, working with the project/sales teams, embedding process improvements and systems to capitalise on their existing good foundations, whilst delivering world class standards of construction efficiency.
Working with an experienced team you should have a proven track record of delivering improved performance through the combination of people and process, with an in-depth knowledge of continuous improvement tools and techniques in the housing sector. You will demonstrate a “safety first” culture whilst meeting all business KPIs, ensuring the customer is at the heart of all you do. You will offer a strong commercial acumen, to drive production output and bottom line profitability, utilising further capacity availability, whilst establishing strategic plans, to increase construction capacities, and deliver supporting sales revenue via active business development, working closely with key clients, suppliers and stakeholders. Establishing new business opportunities in conjunction with the sales team.
The Candidate
- A proven track record of managing a building construction.
- Experience of managing budgets in excess of USD100M.
- Experience of effectively leading and managing a team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to influence, persuade and achieve positive outcomes.
- Must be highly growth oriented.
- Able to manage high work load and conflicting priorities.
- Must have extensive experience in housing delivery and delivery of operational housing services.
- Experience of leading, developing, motivating and managing teams of staff delivering a variety of services
- Ability to plan and prioritise
- Strong attention to detail
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Passionate about creating a customer-focused environment for residents
- Flexible and adaptable to deal with various stakeholders and situations
- Proactive nature and ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent customer relationship skills
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing the development and implementation of service improvements and corporate initiatives to deliver innovative services.
- Identify, own and manage risks arising from strategic and operational plans.
- Providing vision and leadership to your team by managing internal staff, contractors, performance, development, health and wellbeing issues and resources effectively and in line with relevant policies and procedures.
- Managing a designated budget ensuring that value for money is achieved in all circumstances through the monitoring and control of expenditure and the early identification of any financial irregularity.
- Responsible for the leadership of group wide services. Ensuring we develop innovative solutions to build more affordable homes quickly and efficiently.
- Responsible to continually identify future service challenges and opportunities and develop appropriate strategic approaches
- Responsible for all aspects of service and operations, including driving the delivery of outstanding performance, developing and inspiring teams to develop and maximise their potential to deliver cutting edge service delivery for customers and management of subcontractors.
- Complying with Group confidentiality and information security policies at all times.
- Your duties may vary from time to time within the broad remit of your role and grade. You are required to undertake any such reasonable and appropriate duties.
- You will motivate and inspire teams to deliver outstanding performance, high customer satisfaction and value for money services.
- You will work to deliver outstanding housing and support services and contribute to the delivery of strategic objectives. You will be responsible to work in partnership with external organisations and foster excellent internal and external working relationship to enhance services.
- Control and manage all costs in all areas, so that KPI targets are achieved or improved
- Ensuring all operations adopt integrated construction systems and deliver their production targets within strict financial, quality and environmental constraints
- Supporting people development programmes to ensure they continue to develop and maintain the appropriate skills for future success
- Developing and delivering projects with the Project Manager and process improvements to support strategic plans for improving construction capacity and effectiveness
- Manage purchasing agreements
- Explore new material opportunities to reduce costs
- Manage and develop the team’s ethos that promotes engagement
- Identification and dissemination of best practice in all operational areas to maximise wider business benefits
- Manage the site P&L and link with Finance Director
- Oversee and deliver sales, developing revenue along with commercial targets
- Challenging existing practices and looking for improvement opportunities in all business areas
- Good technical skills and problem-solving ability to recognise difficulties and take proactive measures to overcome problems
As a minimum we would expect you to have:
- An Undergraduate Degree, a Master’s degree and other qualifications in relation to housing/property.
- Minimum of 10 years’ solid experience in a leadership and management role, with a demonstrable track record of delivering improved performance through people and process in the building and construction industry.
- Able to identify strategic issues and develop future strategic and operational plans.
- Able to act as an ambassador for the company.
- Experience to develop and deliver strategic plans that deliver corporate objectives.
- Experience of implementing and monitoring Performance Management Systems.
- Significant experience of leading services that deliver outstanding customer focused services.
- Experience of managing complex projects.
- Significant experience of leading and delivering change within a complex organisation.
- Working knowledge of housing laws and current housing issues.
- A high level of hands-on commercial acumen, including finance, sales and revenue development
- The ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation with a high degree of written English combined with comprehensive presentation delivery skills.
- Experience in managing cross functional / multi-disciplinary teams promoting best practice and innovation.
What we can offer
- The successful candidate will receive an annual salary of USD 45,000 – USD 55,000 depending on experience
- Accommodation + car with driver
- KPI bonus