Job Description
Director of Regeneration & Strategic Asset Management
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Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH)
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Location: London / Midlands – Hybrid
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Goodman Masson is delighted to be partnering with Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) to appoint a Director of Regeneration & Strategic Asset Management.
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This is a significant senior leadership opportunity for an ambitious housing and property professional to help shape the future of one of the UK’s leading affordable housing organisations.
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MTVH provides homes and care and support services to communities across the country, with a portfolio of approximately 57,000 homes and £5bn of assets, supported by more than 2,000 colleagues.
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With an ambitious long-term strategy focused on delivering excellent homes, services and opportunities for current and future residents, MTVH is planning for approximately 12,000 new homes over the next decade alongside around £4bn of investment.
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The Director of Regeneration & Strategic Asset Management will play a critical role in turning those ambitions into reality.
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The Opportunity
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Reporting to the Executive Director of Development, you will be accountable for identifying, securing and delivering regeneration and strategic asset opportunities that support MTVH’s growth ambitions and Investment Strategy.
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You will lead the appraisal and optimisation of MTVH’s residential and non-residential assets, ensuring investment and asset decisions maximise long-term value, performance and outcomes.
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The role combines:
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- Strategic asset management and investment
- Major regeneration and development
- Asset optimisation and disposal
- Investment appraisal and financial viability
- Regeneration and rehousing strategies
- Partnership and funding opportunities
- Commercial and strategic decision-making
- Senior stakeholder and community engagement
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As a member of MTVH’s Senior Leadership Team, you will also play an important role in shaping wider organisational strategy, resolving cross-organisational challenges and ensuring that decisions are aligned with both MTVH’s financial sustainability and its social purpose.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Strategic Asset Management & Investment
- Lead the use of data, analytics and digital insight to strengthen strategic investment and divestment decisions.
- Provide strategic leadership of portfolio-wide asset assessments, working collaboratively across Property, Customer Services, Finance and Development to identify opportunities for optimisation and intervention.
- Ensure investment decisions are supported by robust financial and non-financial analysis and are aligned with MTVH’s Investment Strategy.
- Regeneration & Development
- Identify, secure and deliver major regeneration and development opportunities on MTVH-owned land.
- Lead complex regeneration programmes and ensure delivery is aligned with MTVH’s growth targets, Business Plan and strategic objectives.
- Develop and oversee effective rehousing strategies where communities and residents are affected by regeneration, ensuring legal, regulatory and customer requirements are fully considered.
- Partnerships & Funding
- Build and maintain strong relationships with local authorities, communities, consultants, funding bodies and other strategic partners.
- Work closely with the Director of Land, Planning & Partnerships to maximise funding opportunities and develop competitive bids to organisations including Homes England, the GLA and local authorities.
- Manage professional consultants and external delivery partners to ensure high standards of performance and delivery.
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Asset Sales & Financial Performance
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- Lead strategies for the sale and release of homes, including occupied and vacant properties, maximising revenue and surplus returns while ensuring appropriate community engagement and regulatory compliance.
- Work closely with Finance and other directorates to optimise opportunities and ensure growth, sales income and profitability targets are achieved.
- Ensure regeneration, development and investment opportunities are thoroughly assessed for financial viability, risk and potential return.
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure the highest standards of governance, probity, audit and compliance across the remit of the role.
- Maintain strong knowledge of local and national housing and planning policy, including Local Authority planning policies, Local Development Frameworks, Core Strategies and Section 106 agreements.
- Ensure risks are identified, managed and appropriately escalated, with robust mitigation strategies in place.
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Leadership
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You will lead and develop high-performing teams, building capability, accountability and a positive culture aligned to MTVH’s values:
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Care | Dare | Collaborate | Own
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As a senior leader, you will be expected to operate collaboratively across organisational boundaries, provide strategic challenge and contribute actively to MTVH’s wider corporate agenda.
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You will also ensure that resident and community outcomes remain central to strategic decision-making.
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What are we looking for?
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We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record in regeneration, development, strategic asset management or a comparable built environment environment.
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You will ideally bring:
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- Significant senior leadership experience within housing, regeneration, development or a related built environment environment.
- A proven track record of leading complex regeneration and/or development programmes.
- Experience managing complex partnerships, including joint ventures and delivery through external partners and professional consultants.
- Strong commercial and analytical capability across property investment, regeneration and asset strategy.
- Experience undertaking asset appraisals, options analysis and developing viable investment or disposal strategies.
- The ability to interpret complex financial and non-financial information and translate it into clear strategic decisions.
- Strong understanding of housing and planning policy.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience working with local authorities, communities, funders and strategic partners.
- Strong strategic leadership and the ability to translate organisational priorities into delivery.
- A genuine commitment to achieving positive outcomes for residents and communities.
- A degree-level qualification or equivalent role-related experience is desirable, alongside substantial senior leadership experience within a complex organisation.
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Why MTVH?
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This is an opportunity to join an organisation with a clear social purpose and a significant long-term investment and growth agenda.
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MTVH is investing heavily in both its existing assets and future development, creating the opportunity for the successful candidate to have a tangible influence on how homes, neighbourhoods and communities evolve over the coming decade.
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The role offers the chance to operate at the heart of that strategy — balancing commercial performance, asset value, regeneration, growth and resident outcomes.
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Benefits include:
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- Competitive senior leadership salary
- Hybrid working
- 28 days annual leave, increasing to up to 33 days through holiday purchase
- Defined contribution pension with employer contributions of up to 9%
- Bupa single cover for Directors
- Medicash Health Scheme
- Life assurance at 3x salary
- 2 volunteering days per year
- A broad range of wellbeing initiatives and colleague networks
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How to Apply
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Goodman Masson is proud to be supporting MTVH on this important appointment.
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If you are an experienced housing, regeneration, development or strategic asset leader looking for an opportunity to influence a significant portfolio and help shape a major long-term growth and investment programme, we would be keen to hear from you.
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For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact jack.benson@goodmanmasson.com or jamie.fitch@goodmanmasson.com
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