Hybrid Assistant Credit Control Manager

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About the role

  • Assistant Credit Control Manager overseeing Rent Arrears and Debt Recovery function at LRG. Involves project management, team leadership, and improving customer relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver end-to-end operational projects related to team restructuration, process redesign, and service improvement.
  • Act as a key delivery partner to the Head of Credit Control, translating strategic objectives into executable plans.
  • Manage change initiatives, ensuring teams are engaged, supported, and aligned throughout transition periods.
  • Provide hands-on leadership support to the Rent Arrears function, stepping into a people-management role where required.
  • Coordinate and oversee the offshore team’s activities, ensuring daily tasks, targets, and quality standards are consistently met.
  • Monitor adherence to rent arrears chase cycles, SLAs, and internal performance standards.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for operational issues, customer complaints, and workflow bottlenecks.
  • Produce and maintain operational performance reports and dashboards to support decision-making.
  • Ensure all processes and communications comply with UK Residential Rent-Based (RRA) regulations and company policies.
  • Support the audit and quality assurance process by conducting regular checks on offshore team outputs.
  • Identify compliance risks and flag non-adherence to leadership in a timely manner.
  • Assess training needs for both onshore and offshore teams.
  • Collaborate with the Learning team to design and implement relevant training programs.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring to ensure consistency and excellence in service delivery.
  • Analyse performance data to identify trends, areas for improvement, and root causes of inefficiencies.
  • Contribute to the creation and implementation of continuous improvement strategies that drive team productivity and performance.
  • Gather feedback and provide actionable insights to improve the customer journey, particularly for landlords.
  • Work closely with Lettings teams to ensure alignment in customer communications and issue resolution.
  • Support initiatives that aim to increase customer satisfaction and reduce arrears.
  • Promote a culture of accountability, ownership, and collaboration.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in customer service roles with a focus on issue resolution and communication.
  • Proven experience in managing or coordinating offshore or remote teams.
  • Strong organisational and multitasking skills, with keen attention to detail.
  • Familiarity with rent arrears processes and chase cycles.
  • Understanding of UK RRA compliance and regulatory requirements.
  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to interpret and present operational data.
  • A proactive, problem-solving approach with a continuous improvement mindset.
  • Experience within the property management, lettings, or housing industry (Desirable).
  • Knowledge of relevant systems used in the lettings or debt recovery environment (e.g., CRM systems, arrears management tools) (Desirable).
  • Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (Desirable).

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and Commission structure
  • Quarterly and yearly awards
  • Salary sacrifice pension scheme
  • Generous Holiday allowance, increasing by 1 day per year based on service with the option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year

Job title

Assistant Credit Control Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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