Interim Cost Improvement Lead

At Red Kite, we’re a little bit different.  We don’t stand on ceremony, so forget things like silos, teams, directorates and instead think more organically! At Red Kite we don’t just work for our tenants, we work with them.

What we need you to do

The role will have four key objectives:

• Independently manage and deliver cost-saving initiatives and in partnership with relevant teams
• Working across the business to partner teams, and identify new opportunities
• Identify new opportunities
• Lead process improvement processes.

What you will be responsible for

• Project manage cost improvement initiatives
• Analyse business improvement initiatives including complex modelling, benchmarking with the peer group, securing buy-in by the appropriate level up to the Board for proposed improvements
• Process mapping of improvement opportunities working across the organisation to deliver simplifications and associated cost efficiencies.

Where you have come from

• Graduate calibre
• A preference for a qualified accountant, part qualified accountant, or business degree
• Experience of successful implementation of projects
• Ability to business partner at all levels of organisation.

Apply for this role

Have look at the job description and if you're as excited about this fantastic opportunity as we are, please fill in our application form and submit it to Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk.   

Or if you want to find out more, email us and we will arrange for you to talk to the recruiting manager about the role.

35-hour week pilot

From June 2024 we will be piloting a change to our normal full-time, 37-hour 5-day week. Over the next 12 months we will be piloting a shorter 35-hour week (for the same pay as before) where staff work a full day Monday to Thursday, and finish the working week at 1pm every Friday. It’s just a pilot at this stage while we evaluate its impact on our staff, our tenants, and the service we provide, but if successful we will consider a permanent move to this way of working in 2025.