Professional, Accountable
PACE
Collaborative, Evolving

Commercial Surveyor

Vacancy Salary Competitive
Vacancy Location Crocus Homes, Norwich
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Fulltime: 37hrs per week 
Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 23rd February (TBC)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Surveyor to manage, oversee and optimise the financial and contractual aspects of projects and the wider business, to ensure profitability, cost efficiency and compliance with regulatory standards and agreements, ensuring projects are completed within budget while also maintaining quality for Crocus Homes.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Managing and maintaining all aspects of cost control; budgets, forecasting, financial planning and contractual elements of projects.
  • Negotiating and awarding contracts and agreements, with / to sub-contractors.
  • Process sub-contract orders, payments and variations using the business’s payment system (COINS).
  • Monitoring project costs and business profitability, and mitigating financial risks, with full awareness of the budget constraints, ensuring project’s stay within budget.
  • Completing regular financial reports and updates to the business, as required.

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Role Profile

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

Educations and Qualifications:

  • BSc Hons Degree in a construction related subject
  • Relevant CSCS card or equivalent
  • Full UK driving licence.

Experience:

  • Experience at a senior level in financial cost management
  • Experience of contract management
  • Experience in managing residential projects for a housebuilder
  • COINS experience.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

  • Strong analytical and numerical skills for managing budgets, costs, and financial risks.
  • Excellent negotiation skills to agree and secure favourable costings and terms in contracts.
  • Clear and effective interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people.
  • Ability to liaise with internal and external personnel.
  • Ability to lead, manage and motivate team members to achieve business objectives.
  • Delegation and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to plan and anticipate challenges, to mitigate risks.
  • Find and develop pro-active solutions.
  • Excellent attention to details; precision in reviewing contractor’s bids, financial documents, contracts, and project progress.
  • Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Manage and control preliminary costs in accordance with budget.
  • Good administration skills.
  • Ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook)
  • Experience in working with COINS payment system.
  • Committed to diversity and inclusion.

Personal Attributes:

  • Daily travel to development sites and Head Office.
  • Willing to be flexible in respect to day-to-day duties and hours worked.
  • Core hours 8.30am – 5.00pm, generally Monday to Friday.

Please note this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check

We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk.

We manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.

We offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.


At Saffron

We have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Saffron to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our tenants. We trust our colleagues to do the right thing and we are looking for people whose values are aligned with ours (PACE – Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving).

You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.

We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.

As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Community.

Inspiring Organisation:
Outstanding colleague engagement

Inspiring Organisation sets out the path to outstanding colleague engagement which we believe necessary to achieve 90% tenant satisfaction, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Inspiring Communities:
90% customer satisfaction

Inspiring Community sets out the path to increasing tenant satisfaction from 74% to 90%, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Inspiring Innovation:
Creating £3m of capacity to invest

Inspiring Innovation sets out the path to freeing up a further £3m per year that we believe necessary to invest in providing the best possible home, service and workplace, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Governance

We will operate in a culture where strong governance, compliance and risk assessment is business as usual.

Homes

We will actively manage our existing homes, and deliver new affordable housing to provide quality homes for current and future customers.

Learning And Development

Covers the membership fee of one professional body relevant to your job role, and excellent opportunities for training & courses

Time Off

Generous holiday entitlement, Holiday Trading, Volunteer and study days, and Enhanced Family Leave

Prioritising Mental Health

Access to our Employee Assistance Program, trained Mental Health First Aiders and wellbeing check-ins

Aviva Pension Scheme

Choose your contribution and Saffron match up to 10%, and we offer Life Assurance cover

Health Schemes

Bupa Private Medical Insurance, Medicash Cashback Plan [eligible after probation completion]

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Cycle to work, and Tusker Car Scheme

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