Senior Manager - Market Engagement and Stakeholder Insight

Job summary

Closing Date: 29th May 2026

Interviews will take place weeks commencing 8th June and 15th June

Working within the Market Engagement team, the Senior Manager – Market Engagement and Stakeholder Insight plays a key role in ensuring Homes England and the National Housing Bank have a strong, evidence led understanding of our market partners, their priorities, behaviours and experiences. This role sits at the heart of how stakeholder intelligence, qualitative research and relationship data are brought together to inform strategy, delivery and engagement across the Agency.

You will lead core programmes and activity that gather, analyse and translate stakeholder insight into clear, actionable intelligence for senior leaders, regional teams and delivery colleagues. Working closely with a wide range of internal teams – including Strategy, Research, Economics, Analysis, Communications and regional delivery colleagues – you will help ensure that decisions are informed by a rich understanding of the housing and regeneration market.

Job description

The Senior Manager roles also involves leading and developing key corporate engagement approaches, including the Agency’s Key Account Manager (KAM) programme, priority partner strategies and relationships with trade bodies and sectoral influencers. You will use CRM data, qualitative insight and engagement intelligence to identify risks, opportunities and gaps in our relationships and to recommend practical actions to strengthen Homes England’s impact and influence.

You will lead cross-Agency strategy development and delivery to address these gaps and deliver strong, strategic and intelligence-led relationships with priority stakeholders corporately across the housing and regeneration market.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on high profile, nationally significant activity in a growing organisation with a clear social purpose – influencing strategic decision-making, business development and delivery that directly support housing supply and regeneration outcomes across England

Person specification

You’ll be comfortable leading complex stakeholder insight, research and intelligence programmes in a multi stakeholder environment, with a strong focus on ensuring insight drives action and better decision making. You will be highly proficient in translating complex qualitative and quantitative data into clear, compelling insight for senior audiences.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient, confident working with Executive and Senior Leadership Teams, and able to manage challenge constructively. Your approach will be grounded in a strong understanding of the context in which Homes England and the housing market operates. You will enjoy working in an innovative, engaging way and be able to influence, negotiate and persuade across organisational boundaries.

You will be led by outcomes, ensuring that insight gathered is continually used and relevant to support business development, delivery and strategic decision making.

You will be experienced in relationship management, strategy development, and in working with a range of data and intelligence sources to drive decision-making and target engagement activity.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk