Contracts Manager - London - Main Contractor - Housing - Permanent - London (Job Ref: RQ1)

Our client operates across a broad range of sectors, including Housing, Large Regeneration Schemes, Education, Health and Mixed Use. This contractor constructs and develops education, healthcare and housing projects working in partnership with key stakeholders including Local Authorities, Housing Associations and Commercial sector partners. This is a UK top 20 Contractor.

As part of their continued success and expansion, an exciting opportunity has arisen for three site based Contracts Managers to join their highly professional and experienced team. Reporting to the Construction Director, you will take direct responsibility for successfully leading a new build residential project. They currently have vacancies across three newly awarded contracts which include a £55m scheme in Camden, a £45m scheme in Sutton and a £50m scheme in Hackney. Each scheme is highly regarded and all consist of mixed use residential accommodations. These challenging roles will involve collaborating with all disciplines within the business to ultimately drive forward both construction and delivery of these schemes. You will work to achieve the expected net profit for each of your contract, working with on-site surveyors to ensure the agreed cash flow is attained. As part of these diverse roles, you will hold customer care responsibilities; ensuring you meet and exceed the customer’s expectations. You will be responsible for the commercial delivery of the scheme; on-going motivation of your site based teams and be a point of escalation for challenges experienced on site. The ideal candidate will be an experienced construction contracts manager; preferably with residential experience. You will ideally have worked for a Main Contractor (Principle Contractor), although candidates with experience with a developer with excellent commercial acumen will also be considered. You will have an excellent commercial awareness, along with strong profit and loss management skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a fast paced, successful and driven construction team and a brand that has quickly developed into the foremost Main Contractor in the Housing Regeneration Market. If you have the experience, determination and want to work as part of an organisation that provides their team with the latitude to own their own and run their own scheme, we'd strongly encourage you to apply. In return our client is offering a competitive basic salary & full package