Head of Specification

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

Job Role: Head of Strategic Specification

Hours: 08:00 – 17:00 – Monday – Friday

Location: Leeds

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per annum plus bonus

The Role:

This is a newly created role within our clients business who are a market leading provider of structural building components. You will have a unique opportunity to help determine and implement a specification strategy for our current award-winning product range. Your appointment will coincide with the development of a truly revolutionary new product to be brought to market in 2022 that will cement my clients position as a true innovator and market leader. Through collaboration with other departments you will provide a platform that enables Architects and strategic clients the opportunity to specify products through various channels such as NBS/Bimstore. A BIM library of components is to be developed and this can be further enhanced with support from group resources.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Solid understanding of the upcoming changes in building regulations and current government strategy, such as climate targets and other upcoming challenges facing the construction industry.
• Regular communication and attendance of meetings with key industry organisations to drive higher standards of product development and testing to exceed industry codes of practice.
• Develop and implement a digital platform to Identify, track and secure specifications with key architectural practices within the UK.
• Provide technical expertise and advice to architects in order to develop a close, long-term relationship that ensures the continued specification of solutions.
• Target key architectural practices whilst working with senior decision makers to highlight and help eliminate risk to individuals, clients and project delivery times when specifying product solutions.
• Provide technical expertise and advice to new and existing clients in order to develop a close, long-term relationship that ensures the continued specification of our client
• Produce application & system led solutions, to architects and engineers to ensure products and systems are used correctly within their specific requirements.
• Monitoring of on-site construction in conjunction with the contractor to provide advice, solutions & specification compliance.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Key Product Knowledge
• Ideally to University Degree level in a relevant field or equivalent
• PC literate
• Business Appreciation / Market Awareness
• Knowledge of CI (continuous integration)
• Committed to achieving the identified objectives
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage own workload
• Customer Focused

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary and benefits package 
• Annual performance related bonus
• Company Vehicle/Allowance
• Free onsite parking
• 23 days holiday + BH’s, increasing with service
• Pension scheme
• Health Care and life assurance scheme
• Modern Facilities with onsite gym