Assistant Asset Manager

Thriving Investments; Pottery Field; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

28 days' annual leave + bank holidays

Car allowance

Private pension

Bonus scheme

Training and development

Retail and leisure discounts

Job summary

Thriving Investments, part of Places for People, seeks an Assistant Asset Manager to support a £1.1bn residential portfolio across England and Scotland. The role blends analytical work with hands-on site involvement, including regular travel and multi-site coordination.

You will work with Asset Managers, Surveyors and external consultants to optimise operational, financial and social performance and contribute to maintenance and lifecycle investment planning.

Qualifications

• Experience within residential asset management, property management, surveying, development or mobilisation.
• Experience managing development handovers, defects, snagging or property mobilisation activities.
• Experience analysing property, operational or financial performance data and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Experience supporting or managing planned maintenance, capital works programmes or lifecycle investment planning across residential assets.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel regularly across a multi-site portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Support portfolio performance reporting, compliance monitoring and lifecycle investment planning.
• Assist in contractor procurement activities and maintenance programmes.
• Collaborate with Asset Manager, Surveyors, Developers and external consultants.
• Engage on-site to balance data analysis with direct stakeholder engagement.

Skills

Residential asset management

Property management

Surveying

Development mobilisation

Driving licence & travel

Job description

Thriving Investmentsis a socially conscious fund manager focused on the living sector. We invest across a range of housing tenures that deliver market returns to investors alongside meaningful social impact. We currently manage over 5,300 homesrepresenting£1.1bn of assets under management, with ambitious plans to grow to £5bn+ through the launch of new funds and the expansion of existing portfolios.

Thriving Investments is supported by a Board of experiencednon‑executivedirectors and by corporate functions including IT, Finance, HR and Facilities through our parent organisation, Places for People.

More about your role

As our Assistant Asset Manager, you'll play a key role in supporting the performance and growth of a diverse residential property portfolio comprising approximately 1700 homes across the England and Scotland and the integration of seven new sites located in across the Midlands and southern England.

Due to the national nature of the portfolio and regular travel requirements, applicants will need to live within approximately 1.5 hours of Leeds, where the team is based.

This is a highly visible, hands-on role that offers exposure to all aspects of residential asset management. You'll work closely with our Asset Manager, Fund Managers, Surveyors, Developers, Property Managers and external consultants to help maximise operational, financial and social performance across the portfolio.

You'll also support portfolio performance reporting, compliance monitoring, planned maintenance programmes, lifecycle investment planning and contractor procurement activities. This role combines strategic asset management responsibilities with practical site-based involvement, making it ideal for someone who enjoys both analysing performance data and being out on site engaging directly with stakeholders.

The role offers a blend of home and site-based working, with regular weekly travel across the portfolio.

Essential criteria

To be considered for this role, your CV should demonstrate:

• Experience within residential asset management, property management, surveying, development or mobilisation.

• Experience managing development handovers, defects, snagging or property mobilisation activities.

• Experience analysing property, operational or financial performance data and identifying improvement opportunities.

• Experience supporting or managing planned maintenance, capital works programmes or lifecycle investment planning across residential assets.

• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel regularly across a multi-site portfolio.

More about you

You'll already have experience working within residential property, asset management, surveying or a related environment and be comfortable managing multiple priorities across a growing portfolio. You enjoy building strong working relationships with developers, housebuilders, managing agents and consultants and are confident challenging and influencing when required.

You'll be highly organised, proactive and capable of managing your own workload while balancing both office-based analysis and regular site visits.

Experience within Build to Rent, Single Family Housing, Affordable Housing or institutional investment environments would be advantageous, as would exposure to planned maintenance programmes and capital investment projects. Most importantly, you'll be eager to develop your career within a growing and entrepreneurial asset management team where you'll have the opportunity to gain broad exposure across a £1.1bn residential investment portfolio.

The benefits

We are an ambitious and growing business, offering challenge, development andlong‑termcareer opportunity.This role could provide the foundation for a wider career aswe grow the affordable housing investment platform.

Our benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays

• Car allowance

• Private pension

• Bonus scheme

• Training and development

• Additional perks including retail and leisure discounts

Inclusivity at Thriving Investments

We believe diversity drives innovation and stronger outcomes. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on [e-mail].

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.

We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities