Stock Condition Lead

Anchor

Location: Home-based with occasional travel

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Salary: £50,000

We're investing heavily in how we understand, manage and improve our homes – and we're looking for a talented Stock Condition Lead to help drive that transformation.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Asset Strategy & Data team at a pivotal point in our journey. As we accelerate our stock condition programme and strengthen the quality of our asset intelligence, you'll play a leading role in shaping the information that underpins our investment decisions, compliance activities, and long-term asset strategy.

You'll lead the delivery of our stock condition survey programme, manage and develop a team of surveyors, and act as a technical expert across the wider Asset team. Working closely with colleagues across Asset Management, Compliance, Building Safety, Retrofit and Repairs, you'll help ensure we have the insight needed to make better decisions and deliver better outcomes for our residents.

This is more than a survey management role. It's an opportunity to influence strategy, improve data quality, drive continuous improvement and help shape how we manage our homes for years to come.

About the Role

As Stock Condition Lead, you'll be responsible for delivering a high-quality, customer-focused stock condition programme across our housing and care portfolio. You will be a key member of the team ensuring customers’ homes are up to the quality we expect and free of risk while meeting regulatory requirements.

You'll provide leadership to our surveying team, contract management delivery of surveys with external partners, establish and maintain technical standards, and ensure the information we collect is accurate, consistent and trusted. You'll champion data quality and work closely with Asset Data colleagues to maximise the value of the intelligence gathered through our surveys.

Alongside programme delivery, you'll act as a subject matter expert, providing technical guidance and support across the wider Asset team and helping translate data into meaningful investment and asset planning decisions.

You'll also identify opportunities to improve processes, embrace new technology and strengthen the way we capture and use asset information across the organisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leading and developing a team of Stock Condition Surveyors.
Delivering an ambitious stock condition survey programme across our homes.
Acting as the technical lead for stock condition surveying and asset data collection.
Driving high standards of survey quality, consistency and assurance.
Supporting investment planning through robust asset intelligence.
Working collaboratively across Asset Management, Repairs, Compliance, Retrofit and Building Safety teams.
Managing survey performance, contractor delivery and resident access arrangements.
Identifying opportunities to improve survey processes, systems and technology.
Producing performance reporting and insight to support strategic decision-making.
Supporting the continued development of our Asset Strategy and Data function.

What You’ll Bring

Skills & Experience

Strong understanding of stock condition surveying and asset management.
Experience leading field‑based surveyor teams.
Proven ability to deliver large‑scale survey programmes.
Experience implementing QA frameworks and audit regimes.
Strong data literacy and experience working with survey datasets.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage residents.
Ability to collaborate across teams and influence decision‑making.
Commitment to accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Qualification in Surveying, Construction Management, Property Management, or equivalent experience.
Professional accreditation (e.g., MCIOB, MRICS) or working towards is welcomed.
Commitment to ongoing CPD.
Ability to travel across the region as required.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Interviews will be during week commencing 27th July 2026

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
Mental health support
Flexible working options
Access to online GP appointments

Finance

Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
Quick and easy pension transfer service
Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
Free Blue Light Card

Career

Ongoing personal and professional development programme
Leadership Pathways online learning resources
Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.