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Workforce Services IT Manager

Salary £82,500
Location South East London
Contract type Permanent
Weekly hours mon - fri 9 - 5

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Your typical day could start with you reviewing the programme of works that are inflight or within commissioning process. Then you might be meeting with some members of your team ensuring they are on track with their day-to-day workload and project deliverables, before providing expert input as a product subject matter expert ensuring improvements made to systems within your capability are going to provide a positive experience for residents.

As a Workforce Services IT Manager you’ll be a hands on person and no one day is likely to be the same. You’ll play an integral part in the IT Delivery Management team helping shape and accelerate the journey towards modern services for Peabody. With a particular focus on the delivery of support and change to Peabody’s Management system you’ll actively manage and develop the teams and individuals who maintain and enhance the system, whilst managing the change delivery activities you’ll ensure effective planning and transition to operations.

You’re a people person who likes to get things done. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with other teams and you’re first rate at building meaningful relationships across the business  to enable you to deliver your improvements to the systems you are responsible for. You’ll need to be in the office for 2 days per week and the remaining time you’ll be able to work remotely.

Your role covers all the Workforce Services Management eco-systems along with any new and emerging solutions. If you’re an excellent communicator, energised by leading and developing your teams and able to work under pressure, meeting deadlines and targets whilst committed to helping people flourish, we want to hear from you.

To be successful in this role, you’re:

  • experienced and knowledgeable about Workforce Services management systems ideally within the social housing domain
  • passionate about implementing best practise in solutions delivery through all stages of development, with a working knowledge of industry standards and frameworks such as ITIL, Agile etc
  • organised with the ability to self-manage a diverse and varied workload and the workload and deliverables of others, prioritising work effectively
  • qualified to degree level or with extensive industry experience
  • be prepared to develop your system knowledge, business knowledge and change management skills and ensure your teams are supported in doing the same.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody: 

  • 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays  

  • Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates  

  • Two additional paid volunteering days each year  

  • Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal  

  • 4 x salary life assurance

  • Up to 10% pension contribution

Are you ready to apply? 

Interviews will be taking place during the week commencing 9th June 2025.

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position of Workforce Services IT Manager, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.  

If you have any questions about this role, please email Talent Specialist, Harry Lund at Harry.lund@peabody.org.uk

We may close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

Peabody are one of the largest housing associations in the UK, and we’ll be even bigger when our merger with Catalyst is complete in April 2023. Our mission is to help people flourish and an important part of this is to ensure that our organisation reflects the wider communities we serve.

We want to attract recruit and retain a diverse, inclusive and creative workforce to give us the best opportunity to meet the diverse needs of our residents and customers.  

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