Social Housing Delivery Lead Consultant

Social Housing Delivery Lead Consultant

Location: Home based, UK wide travel when required
Base hubs: Manchester / Durham / London (client-site as required).
Salary: £50,000–£55,000 (depending on sector depth and delivery leadership).
Benefits: Unlimited holiday, 5% matched pension, plus a healthcare scheme

The opportunity

A specialist advisory team is growing their Social Housing practice and is looking for a Delivery Lead Consultant to run end-to-end consulting engagements across housing associations—helping clients make confident decisions across housing management systems (HMS), digital/data strategy, applications, and transformation delivery.
This is a role for someone who can operate independently with clients, but who also enjoys being part of a collaborative team—sharing knowledge, developing others, and contributing to a strong delivery culture.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead advisory projects end-to-end: scoping, planning, delivery, closure, and follow-up
• Build trusted relationships with housing clients and deliver high-quality outcomes
• Support and mentor more junior consultants (coaching, delegation, knowledge sharing)
• Improve delivery ways of working (process, quality, administration, utilisation)
• Contribute to business development in a natural way (networking, shaping opportunities, supporting proposals) — not a hard sales target at this level

Typical project areas

• Housing Management System (HMS) selections/procurement and delivery support (end-to-end implementation experience is a strong plus)
• IT / Digital & Data strategy (including roadmap and operating model direction)
• Application portfolio reviews and system reviews (often starting with repairs)
• Repairs and asset-related process improvement (e.g., work involving tools like Total Mobile, DRS, Plentific)
• Data platform direction (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Databricks) from an advisory perspective (not hands-on engineering)

What we’re looking for

• Strong social housing sector knowledge (housing associations) and understanding of relevant operating context/regulation
• Proven experience delivering complex change/technology programmes (client-side transformation experience is welcomed)
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills—workshops, discovery, recommendations, proposals
• Comfortable with light BD activity (events, introductions, relationship building)
• A collaborative style (not a “lone wolf” consultant)

Working pattern & travel

• Hybrid setup; this will mainly be a remote set up, with travel to customer sites (all paid for). 
• Some overnight travel may be required depending on client need

Interview process

1. Intro conversation (remote or in-person)
2. In-person stage with senior stakeholders + a short written exercise (proposal-style response to a mock brief; scope adjusted based on seniority)

Apply / register interest

If you’re a housing-sector delivery lead who enjoys shaping outcomes, building client trust, and improving how work gets delivered, get in touch!

First stage interviews taking place remotely, will be held w/c 23rd Nov, with final stage in-person interviews taking place w/c 7th December.