Lettings Team Leader
Posted 23 hours 46 minutes ago by Karter Thomas Ltd
Lettings Team Leader
Location: East Midlands Hybrid working
Salary: Competitive
We are working with a well-established housing organisation to recruit an experienced Lettings Team Leader to lead a busy lettings function and drive high standards of customer service and operational performance.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced housing professional who enjoys leading people, improving processes and delivering results.
The Role
You will lead a team of Lettings Officers and Administrators, overseeing the effective allocation and re-letting of properties while ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading, coaching and developing the lettings team.
- Managing tenancy terminations and allocations through to successful re-let.
- Working with internal teams to reduce void periods and rent loss.
- Building strong relationships with Local Authority and external partners.
- Monitoring KPIs, performance and quality standards.
- Managing complex and high-risk allocations, including safeguarding considerations.
- Supporting complaints, reviews and transfer processes.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes, performance and customer outcomes.
- Producing and analysing lettings and void performance data.
- Promoting a positive, accountable and high-performing team culture.
About You
You'll have proven experience within housing lettings or allocations, together with experience of leading, coaching or supervising a team.
We're looking for someone who is:
- Customer-focused and commercially aware.
- Confident managing performance and using data to drive improvement.
- A strong communicator and relationship builder.
- Comfortable making decisions around complex cases and risk.
- Passionate about developing people and improving services.
- Organised, proactive and able to work effectively across multiple teams.
The Opportunity
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of working from the office around 2-3 days per week, alongside home working, meetings and site visits as required.
If you're an experienced lettings professional ready to take the next step in your career and lead a team within a forward-thinking housing organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now for a confidential conversation about the role.