Principal Social Value Manager

Willmott Dixon is seeking an experienced Principal Social Value Manager to join our central Social Value team on a 12 month fixed-term basis to provide maternity cover.

Social Value has always been part of who we are. Going forward we have ambitious plans to elevate its role even further, strengthening customer outcomes and creating greater value for the communities where we work.

Working with the Head of Social Value and senior leaders in the business, you will help influence out future approach, ensure we remain at the forefront of industry best practice and support the integration of social vale into how we win work, deliver projects and demonstrate impact.

We are looking for someone who combines strong technical social value knowledge, stakeholder management and people leadership. You will influence colleagues outside your reporting line, create clarity around complex requirements and bring teams together around shared objectives.

You will

• Lead key social value programmes and projects that support our ambitions for growth, customer value and community impact.
• Provide expert advise on emerging policy, customer requirements and industry developments.
• Ensure our teams have tools and support needed to deliver, report and measure social value outcomes consistently.
• Maintain and strengthen our social value measurement methodology, including the TOMs and other relevant approaches.
• Build effective relationships with customers, frameworks, colleagues and specialist external partners.
• Acting as business owner for our social value system, ensuring it meets strategic, operational and reporting needs.
• Lead and develop the Social Value Manager, while acting as a senior source of technical support across the business.

Essential Criteria

• Excellent knowledge of social value, including the relevant legal and policy framework.
• Detailed knowledge of social value measurement methodologies, including the TOMs or comparable approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder-management skills, with a strong record of influencing senior colleagues and project teams outside your reporting line.
• Experience of translating technical, legal, customer or policy requirements into practical processes and guidance.
• Strong project and programme-management skills, with experience of leading complex work across teams or functions.
• The ability to combine technical rigour with practical implementation.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in construction, the built environment or another complex operational sector.
• Experience of supporting bids, frameworks or customer propositions.
• Knowledge of social value systems, reporting and evidence assurance.
• Experience of developing policies, standards, guidance or organisational capability.

Sound like you?

If you combine social value expertise with strong leadership and the ability to influence across a complex business, we would like to hear from you.

Join us and help Willmott Dixon use social value as a credible differentiator, while giving our teams the clarity and support to deliver meaningful, measurable impact.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations.

Our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability have enabled us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people thrive.

Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025.

Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of Sustainable Development.