Senior Partnership Manager (Delivery Team – South) - 7908

Title: Senior Partnership Manager (Delivery Team – South)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours perweek

Salary: £65,913 per annum to £72, 884 per annum dependant on experience. *Plus£1,300 Essential Car User Allowance

Grade: 11

Reporting Office: London, Stratford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 26th June 2026 at 11pm

Interview Dates: 8th July 2026, to be held face to face at our Stratford Office

Please click here for the role profile- Role Profile - Senior Partnership Manager.docx

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

L&Q reserve the right to not shortlist applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications within the last 24 months.

Join our Major Works Team at L&Q:

L&Q is seeking a Senior Partnership Manager to join the Major Works team on a permanent basis. The Senior Partnership Manager manages a regional team responsible for implementation, delivery, and quality of designated Major Works projects. In this key leadership role, you will oversee a regional team responsible for the delivery, quality, and performance of major works programmes, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard. You will play a critical part in maintaining our property assets in line with agreed programmes, while providing accurate feedback to support future planning and performance improvement.

Reporting directly to the Head of Delivery, you will lead a team of Partnership Managers, Delivery Programme Leads, and a Technical Inspector, driving performance, accountability, and a strong focus on customer satisfaction.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

You’ll have experience working in a major works team and understand how projects are delivered, monitored, and completed to a high standard.

In this role you will act as the client representative for all related contracts in line with the requirements of the contract. Responsible for the collection, monitoring, review and reporting of all risks, cash-flows, and other associated processes within agreed timescales, and be responsible for the successful delivery of a partnership.

This role will cover the South L&Q regional delivery team. Responsible for implementation, delivery, and quality of designated Major Works projects.

The role will cover locations such as Greenwich, Bexley, Lewisham, Lambeth, Bromley, Southwark and surrounding locations. With some onward travel.

What you'll bring:

You will ensure that the trust property assets are maintained in line with the allocated programme and budgets set out. Also ensuring that information on works carried out or no longer required and fed back into the performance team, to allow accurate future programming. You will work with the pre-construction team to ensure future year’s works programmes are in place in a timely manner.

The Senior Partnership Managers will need to be a good leader and have excellent communication and people skills to motivate your team. Ideally you will have previous experience within a major works team and have a good understanding of delivery activities.

You will be acting as the client representative for all related contracts in line with the requirements of the contract. Responsible for the collection, monitoring, review and reporting of all risks, cash-flows, and other associated processes within agreed timescales, and be responsible for the successful delivery of a partnership.

Candidates will be able to demonstrate:

• Experienced people manager with excellent customer service skills
• Able to demonstrate financial and commercial acumen, including risk management skills at the highest level. Including financial reporting and presenting to internal stakeholders at a high level.
• Demonstrate collaboration and influencing skills, with key stakeholders.
• Computer literate, with previous experience in managing asset management data, Excellent MS office skills.
• Good working knowledge of standard measured term partnering forms of contract
• Good understanding of regulatory compliance for fire risk management
• Degree educated in a construction-related course or relative experience.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please emaillqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Fine out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

*ECU Allowance is paid in accordance with requirements of the relevant policy as updated from time to time.

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