Social Value Manager

Social Value Manager

Cardiff

Competitive Salary + Car / Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits

Permanent - Full Time – 37.5 Hours

Are you passionate about creating meaningful social impact through construction and partnerships?

Do you have the drive to turn strategy into real community outcomes?

About the role

As Social Value Manager, you will lead the delivery of the Social Value Strategy across the Cardiff and Vale Partnership Programme, ensuring community engagement plans and agreed KPIs are achieved. Working closely with work-winning and project delivery teams, you will develop and embed practical, site-based social value plans while contributing to tender submissions with clear, deliverable proposals and cost advice.

You will collaborate with commercial, operational and supply chain teams to embed social value throughout project delivery, managing budgets, supporting subcontractors and delivering training to ensure consistent understanding and performance. You will also establish and oversee effective monitoring and reporting processes in line with frameworks such as Social Value Portal and Thrive, providing timely updates to internal teams and external stakeholders.

Acting as the key point of contact for social value and community engagement, you will build strong relationships with local authorities, education providers, community organisations and other partners. You will represent the organisation at local forums and stakeholder meetings, lead on external communications including case studies, promote social value activities and support project teams to continually improve community engagement outcomes.

About you

Success in this role requires a strong understanding of health and safety requirements, alongside solid knowledge of contracts and contract documentation. You should demonstrate expertise in construction materials, design principles and modern construction methods and technology. Experience with procurement processes and familiarity with the local subcontractor market are important, as well as well-developed negotiation skills and an awareness of current pricing levels.

You should also have a good understanding of temporary works and management systems such as LIMS and C21. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint is also required

Benefits

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Bonus entitlement based on performance KPIs

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Holidays - 26 days

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Life Assurance

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Pension

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Private medical insurance

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Ability to purchase additional holiday

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Access to discount portal

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Cycle to Work scheme and the Lovell Way to EV

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Digital GP

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Employee assistance programme

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Sharesave scheme

As an Investors in People Gold award employer, Lovell is the UK’s leading provider of mixed tenure affordable homes and has a reputation for innovation and excellence in the delivery of high-quality housing development and regeneration projects.

We are committed to enhancing the communities in which we work, building quality homes for real people and looking after our own people; developing talent is key to achieving this. We understand that the success of our organisation comes from the strengths, skills and personalities of our people. Lovell is an equal opportunities employer who encourage and value diversity and inclusion within our teams.

The Lovell culture is one that has been successful for many years. It is based on empowering colleagues to make decisions at a regional and local level, and to challenge the status quo whilst working as one to achieve our goals and make Lovell a great place to work for all