To ensure that we deliver the great service that our customers deserve, we have operational and back office support teams split across a number of operating offices. Whatever your speciality or experience, all of our roles enjoy a culture of continuous improvement and interact with internal or external customers. We’re bound to have a team in which you can flourish.
I enjoy working here, it is not just dealing with properties, we are making a difference to customers’ daily lives.
Shabana N
Our back office functions play a key role in building our reputation as the UK's leading property manager, and they enable our operational teams to deliver great customer service.
With so many homes and developments to look after, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes at FirstPort. And that means there are a great deal of different roles – and a huge number of challenges and opportunities across our support functions.
Our business development team provide potential clients with information about our business and our services. They draft tenders and budgets, design management strategies, build project teams and work closely with clients to quickly resolve all account management issues.
Our site colleagues are the face of our business for our customers. We offer careers in many different positions across our managed developments, including concierges, cleaners, gardeners, ground maintenance professionals and housekeepers.
We have a large and highly skilled finance team including corporate finance, estate accounts and purchase ledger. This means we're able to offer excellent career opportunities and professional development to help our people learn and grow.
IT plays an enormous role across our business and the team takes care to ensure that all colleagues have the best equipment and software to do their jobs well, as well as developing and deploying software applications from their offices in both Luton and New Milton.
Our HR team works in partnership across the business, ensuring that we have motivated, well-trained and engaged teams who can perform, lead and manage at their best.
We have dedicated in-house lawyers supporting our operations teams and negotiating commercial agreements. The team's work is extremely varied, which means no two days are the same, and team members have the opportunity to gain experience in a number of areas.
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Our marketing and communications team lead, drive and advise on external communications and PR activity across our brands. They know the industry inside out, and have expertise in both client and customer focused marketing, through to digital and social.
Our in-house insurance team offer different types of insurance for a selection of our residents, for example building and contents insurance.
Health and safety is our number one priority here at FirstPort, and the team partner with operations to ensure that our developments are safe places to live and work.
Our procurement team supports the business by procuring services and skilled contractors who can deliver a timely, professional and high-quality service.
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Our surveyors provide support for a wide portfolio ranging from our complex buildings, our retirement housing, to our modern high-rise luxury buildings. They help in diagnosing building defects, supporting major development projects and focusing on value for money resolutions.
Our finance systems support team provide a mixture of first and second line support to our various business systems. Ultimately, they focus on making sure that external suppliers, contractors and our own internal users have the best possible experience when using our systems.
Our group estates finance team has specialist knowledge of Direct Debit scheme rules and regulations, and processes millions of customer payments each year within one day of receipt. Our treasury team holds, protects and manages client funds for tenants in designated client bank accounts, and processes and reconciles each account on a daily basis.
Technical services comprises two teams - major works and compliance. They make sure we maintain our high standards by carrying out regular proactive works and planned maintenance on our properties, which can range from an internal re-decoration to a new lift installation. The have technical mechanical and electrical expertise which they use to advise and support our clients and customers.
Our customer service teams support our customers with queries and questions about their development, service charges and maintenance. The teams are split between our fast- paced offices in Halesowen and Luton, and deal with a wide variety of queries. We’re proud that many of our customer service colleagues go on to develop careers with us in property management and other areas of our business.