Divisional Chairman

Make a Home at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we don’t just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen – for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all. 

With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you’ll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.

Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people. 

Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.

Job Summary

To lead the operational performance for the division, ensuring that short and long term targets are achieved whilst maintaining a strong, disciplined approach to cost management and financial performance.  Actively contribute to, and ensure delivery, of the agreed TW Business Strategy by providing leadership, strategic insight, thought and challenge, directional guidance and support to the Business Unit Management Teams. 
 
Actively seek new business opportunities which complement and enhance the business strategy and drive confidence in our investors.  Keep ahead of market changes and ensure business operations meet with corporate governance requirements by influencing, monitoring, assessing land risk. 
 
Drive a continuous improvement, customer centric agenda, challenging the status quo and proactively identifying operational enhancements. Represent the division as a member of the Group Management Team, effectively sharing best practices, challenging and collaborating with peers.  In addition, as a member of the Group Management Team has responsibility for ensuring overall delivery against the TW Business Strategy.  
 
Ensure that the division is bought into and clear about the company’s values, purpose, and objectives. Build sustainable performance of the division by raising the bar in people capability and ensuring that the quality of talent and succession within the division is able to deliver the future requirements of the business.  

Primary Responsibilities

Business Performance & Growth 
•    Effectively manage the division to achieve the financial and non-financial targets agreed; ensuring decisions are taken in the best interest of the group with regard to other key stakeholders .  
•    In addition, responsibility as a GMT (General Management Team) member to ensure successful delivery of the overall TW business strategy, whilst developing and sharing an independent perspective to influence future direction.   
•    Build a sustainable high quality land bank, balancing risk, margin, and volume in line with the strategic vision.  
•    Actively contribute to the shaping  and operational delivery of the agreed TW Business strategy through meaningful actions.  
•    As required, represent TW on appropriate industry forums, summits and working parties acting as an ambassador and role model for the business.  
•    Critically assess and approve land purchase exercises in the best interest of TW's current and strategic goals. 
•    Work in collaboration with and proactively support the interface between Strategic Land and the Business Units, ensuring that quality strategic land opportunities are progressed into the Business Unit short term land bank to meet their targets. 
•    Provide strong, challenging, and inspiring leadership across the division and TW Group, role modelling our values.  
 
Operational Excellence 
•    Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across the division ensuring practises and processes are regularly reviewed and enhanced.  
•    Support the adoption and embedding of strong companywide processes within Business Units to support business consistency, cost management and efficiency. 
•    Build the reputation of TW by ensuring corporate governance is maintained within all aspects of the business operation, including without exception, all current and new H&S standards so that all our employees, contractors and customers always remain safe.  
•    Supported by group Heads of Function, deliver consistent operational delivery and standardised working practices to create a platform for disciplined cost management.  
•    Maintain a close working relationship across the division by regularly undertaking site visits.  
•    Supported by group heads of function, ensure awareness of and influence (where appropriate) political, industry related and environmental developments which may impact TW. 
•    Where requested, undertake a UK wide functional sponsorship role, driving forward the sharing of best practice and continuous improvement ethos. 
•    Assess, monitor and minimise any identified and potential risks across the Division working with the BU Management Teams as part of the Risk Management cycle. 
Customer Delivery 
•    Drive a customer focused culture across the division by driving sustainable improvements and sharing best practises because of customer feedback and insight.  
•    Unwavering delivery of the customer services initiatives and inquisitiveness to work through change management principles required to embed this initiative. 

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Managing Director of at least one large, high performing business.
• Demonstrates a breadth of Industry knowledge, with significant proven success in land acquisition and planning.
• Strong understanding of a further operational function e.g. finance, sales etc. with broad understanding in the remaining areas. 
• Possesses detailed knowledge of the variety of products delivered across the division 
•  Business related degree,  
• MBA preferable. 
•  Strong experience in inspiring and leading a multi disciplined, geographically split team.  
•  Has a proven track revised of leading and driving successful business change  
•  Excellent commercial and financial/cost management skills. 

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.

We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions.  We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover.  Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.    

We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.

If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.

Internal Applicants:

Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role.