Divisional Director

The Vacancy

🚀 Join Wates Group as a Divisional Director – Property Services (Planned Maintenance, London & South East)

Are you ready to lead with purpose and drive meaningful impact in communities across London and the South East? We’re looking for a passionate and strategic Divisional Director to join our Wates Property Services (WPS) team, overseeing a portfolio of Planned Maintenance contracts across Greater London, the South, and South East. Reporting directly to the Regional Managing Director, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of social housing maintenance—delivering excellence, driving growth, and building strong client relationships.

🌟 What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead the Vision: Develop and execute a high-performing divisional strategy—from mobilisation to delivery—anchored in our “Delivering the Promise” principles.
• Own the Numbers: Take full P&L responsibility for the region, ensuring sustainable profitability and growth across all contracts.
• Champion Safety & Sustainability: Set the standard for Health, Safety & Environment performance, aligning with our strategic commitments.
• Be the Client’s Trusted Partner: Build and nurture long-term relationships with local authorities and housing associations, ensuring exceptional service and satisfaction.

🧠 What You’ll Bring:

• A proven track record of growing and evolving contracts within the social housing or property services sector.
• Strong leadership in delivering outstanding customer service at a regional level.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to drive continuous improvement and innovation across multiple contracts.

✅ Additional Info:

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.