About the role

  • Support the Debt Recovery and Rent Arrears team day-to-day operations
  • Coordinate activities of the offshore team, ensuring daily tasks and targets are met
  • Monitor the team's adherence to the rent arrears chase cycle and internal SLAs
  • Act as a point of contact for escalations and workflow bottlenecks, resolving or escalating as appropriate
  • Maintain operational reports and performance dashboards to support decision-making
  • Ensure all processes and communications comply with UK Residential Rent-Based (RRB) 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 and collaborate with the Learning team to design and implement 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 and propose/pilot process optimisations
  • 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 positive team culture that fosters collaboration, ownership, and accountability
  • Contribute to employee engagement strategies and initiatives, particularly for offshore team members
  • Consistently operate within and demonstrate LRG company values

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 RRB 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
  • (Desirable) 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

Benefits

  • Proven track record for career growth and advancement within the company
  • Market leading training and ongoing professional development
  • Award winning training and development programmes
  • Tailored training and development programmes at all levels
  • Supportive and collaborative team environment
  • Competitive base salary
  • Quarterly and yearly awards
  • Salary sacrifice pension scheme
  • Generous Holiday allowance, increasing by 1 day per year based on service
  • Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year

Job title

Assistant Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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