Total 16 Director/C-Level Construction / Property job vacancies in Abingdon/Birmingham/Cardiff/London/Manchester

Your new company
I am currently working with a professional consultancy who are looking for an industry leader to help cement their Quantity Surveying services in the business. Due to continued growth and project wins they are seeking someone to head up the Quantity Surveying division in the business. The business has been operating for over 10+ years and secured a large amount of works within Cadding Remediation across London moving forward.

Your new role

• Experience working on: Cladding Remediation Solution, PAS 9980 and EWS1 Solution, Fire Compliance Solution, both private and public sector
• Setting up smart ways of working
• Assisting on servicing instructions which are typically split about 50:50 between pre and post contract project work.
• Assist in the preparation of feasibility cost plans and pricing exercises.
• Attending site to view project progress and assist in preparation of cost reports and valuations.
• Assist in the preparation of pricing documents for tender purposes and support on administering the tender process.
• Attend meetings with other design team members and support senior colleagues in the provision of cost advice.
• Assist in preparing benchmarking studies and cost appraisals of alternative construction proposals.
• General cost management support on projects ranging from £500k to £10m.
• Attend proposed sites to assess abnormal cost impacts and restrictions and support on preparation of cost plans.
• Meet target KPIs on work in progress (WIP) management including hours into work in progress (HIW).
• Business Development and Client Care awareness.
• Adherence to Health & Safety procedures.
• Responsibility for own continuous professional learning.
• Respect Company Values.

What you'll need to succeed

• Degree or MSc in Quantity Surveying
• Professional Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• 10+ years PQE experience
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel
• Experience of AutoCAD an advantage, though not essential
• Clean driving licence
• Required to have the ability to work within a team and on own initiative
• Must be enthusiastic proactive and self-motivated
• Must have strong verbal and numerical skills and good written skills

What you'll get in return

• Salary ranging from £95,000 - £110,000 depending on experience
• Generous package and company benefits
• Flexible/ hybrid working
• No restrictions on continuing to grow your team

What you need to do now
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I am seeking an experienced and dynamic Director Building Surveyor to head up an exciting opportunity in London and Reading.
Your new company It is an established Building Consultancy that specialises in Project Management for Property Investors and Occupiers.
Your new role

• Undertake all Building Surveying disciplines
• Businesses develop new and existing client bases
• Travel to meet new and existing clients
• Lead and manage complex surveying projects from inception to completion

What you'll need to succeed

• Degree in Building Surveying or a related field.
• MRICS or equivalent.
• Experienced in building surveying, with a proven track record in a leadership role.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Proficient in relevant software and technology.

What you'll get in return

• Salary up to £95,000 dependent on experience +benefits +package
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression
• Flexible working
• 25 days holiday running annually

What you need to do now
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Director of Building Surveying needed ASAP!

Your new company
You will be working for an independent Building Consultancy and provide national coverage throughout the UK, guiding clients through the regulations, technical issues and financial considerations during building, refurbishment, interior design and construction projects, helping them to reach their unique objectives.


Your new role
As a Director of Building Surveying, you will be heavily involved in key client development, financial forecasting, team management and growth.
Your responsibilities will also include but are not limited to:

• Hands-on delivery of building surveying services with bias to project work in the industrial and commercial sector
• Technical due diligence
• Client management and development
• Supervising, managing and mentoring junior members of the building surveying team
• Technical reviews to manage the quality of our services
• Dilapidations

What you'll need to succeed
To be considered for the Director Building Surveyor role, the successful professional must be able to demonstrate the following traits and attributes:

• MRICS Chartered
• Consultancy experience
• Be commercially minded for winning work and business development
• Be able to manage your own workload
• Capable of managing individual team members, organising their work where necessary and providing guidance on projects
• Good communication and client-facing skills
• An analytical mind with a high level of intellect - combining excellent written and oral skills to produce considered and robust reports and recommendations

What you'll get in return

• Salary from £80,000 to £90,000 dependent on experience + package + experience
• Flexible working
• 25 holiday days + bank holidays

What you need to do now
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!! MRICS - Associate Director - Commercial Property Manager - £70,000 - £80,000 !!

Your new company
I am currently working with a Commercial Property Consultancy based in London that are looking to expand on their existing Property Team. With an influx of new workload instructions, they are looking at taking on an additional Associate Director Property Management to join the growing business unit.

Your new role

• Must have experience in the Commercial Real Estate market
• Liaising with tenants on maintenance issues and organising timely repairs
• Liaising with tenants on ad hoc tenancy matters
• Keeping all Statutory Health and Safety inspections up to date both within the tenants' demise and within the blocks in which the flats are situated
• Responsibility for ensuring the timely payment of rents and collection of arrears
• Liaison with tenants over internal and external redecoration of common parts
• Undertaking minor works between tenancies and liaising with projects team for larger scale works
• Meeting and greeting all new tenants at the commencement of their tenancies
• Processing Insurance claims
• Business Development experience in new client wins
• Team management & Mentoring
• Drawing up accurate client reports
• Attending client meetings
• Periodically serving notices and attending court proceedings
• Liaison with utility companies
• Keeping the list of utilities paid by tenants to managing agent up to date and ensuring charges are being raised by accounts and ensuring payment collection
• The ability to multitask and prioritise

What you'll need to succeed

• Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• 6+ Years experience specialising in Commercial Property Management
• The ability to work with a minimum of supervision is essential.
• Excellent communication and numeracy skills are required.

What you'll get in return

• Salary ranging from £70,000 - £80,000 + Package & Benefits
• Flexible working (3 days in office and 2 days from home)

What you need to do now
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Your new company

I am currently working with an International Property Consultancy who are seeking an Associate Director in Property Management on a 6-Month FTC in London/ South East. You will be working on a National Portfolio for a Public Sector specific client that encompasses the whole of the UK. The role is very heavily client-facing and must be Chartered in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Your new role

• Providing high quality Property Management
• Management of Lease / Tenancy Schedules
• Liaising with the client, their solicitors, stakeholders and tenants on a daily basis
• High level stakeholder management in a client-facing role
• Attending regular client meetings
• Carrying out regular property inspections on a risk-based frequency
• Dealing with individual tenant requests and ensuring these are dealt with by the most appropriate team in a timely manner
• Assisting with preparation of reports for client meetings
• Management of income arrears and recovery (supported by a dedicated credit controller), invoice approvals, setting up new properties, maintaining the property database, updating the Operational Support team and Tramps, etc
• Due diligence for acquisitions and disposals
• Attending client meetings
• Attendance and positive contributions at team and department meetings

What you'll need to succeed

• Qualification to a degree level
• Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Experience managing Commercial Properties and Rural Estate Management

What you'll get in return

• 6 Month FTC offering a Salary of £55,000 - £60,000 + package
• Exposure to a National tier 1 client in a Property Management capacity

What you need to do now
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Associate Director - Property Management 6 Month Fixed Term Contract (£55,000 - £60,000 + package)

Your new company
I am currently working with an International Property Consultancy who are seeking an Associate Director in Property Management on a 6-Month FTC in London/ South East. You will be working on a National Portfolio for a specific client that encompasses the whole of the UK. The role is very heavily client-facing and must be Chartered in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Your new role

• Providing high quality Property Management
• Management of Lease / Tenancy Schedules
• Liaising with the client, their solicitors, stakeholders and tenants on a daily basis
• High level stakeholder management in a client-facing role
• Attending regular client meetings
• Carrying out regular property inspections on a risk-based frequency
• Dealing with individual tenant requests and ensuring these are dealt with by the most appropriate team in a timely manner
• Assisting with preparation of reports for client meetings
• Management of income arrears and recovery (supported by a dedicated credit controller), invoice approvals, setting up new properties, maintaining the property database, updating the Operational Support team and Tramps, etc
• Due diligence for acquisitions and disposals
• Attending client meetings
• Attendance and positive contributions at team and department meetings

What you'll need to succeed

• Qualification to a degree level
• Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Experience managing Commercial Properties and Rural Estate Management

What you'll get in return

• 6 Month FTC offering a Salary of £55,000 - £60,000 + package
• Exposure to a National tier 1 client in a Property Management capacity

What you need to do now
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The postholder will be accountable for the management of E&F at Barnet Hospital and North Mid Hospital - both a PFI Site.

The role requires a result driven individual with strategic mindset, exceptional communication skills, a positive and inclusive approach to leadership, a genuine passion for delivering customer satisfaction and the ability to navigate complex legal and operational considerations in a challenging and demanding environment to ensure customer satisfaction in delivery of day-to-day operational services.

With high emotional intelligence and commercial awareness, the postholder is accountable for providing both strategic direction and day to day leadership of RFLPS managed PFI hospital sites plus the effective management and delivery of safe transition of services and clinical service continuity upon PFI expiry.

The postholder will need to foster positive and collaborative relations across all stakeholders ensuring that the PFI is maintained to the highest standards, is compliant and in a condition and level of performance as defined within the contract.

The postholder will also play an active role within the RFLPS development, growth and as a learning organisation, and contribute to the overall development and implementation of RFL Property Services long term vision, strategic direction and governance arrangements in the delivery of its agreed objectives.


• • Apply professional expertise to strengthen the intelligent client-side capability and capacity to maintain the relationship and contract performance with the PFI partners and lead contract and performance reviews ensuring the contractors meet their day-to-day responsibilities plus meet the need for effective strategic planning.

· Actively work with hospital operational teams and PFI service providers to identify operational improvements, optimisation of asset management and use and efficiencies that represent value for money to the NHS over short, medium and long term to minimise unnecessary expenditure across multiple sites but mitigate risk of savings being at expense of longer-term value.

· Implement processes and governance to deliver effective strategic plans that ensure the assets are in fit for purpose condition, perform as intended and fully support delivery of safe, effective and timely care and working priorities of the hospital.

· Construct, maintain and manage a dedicated operational team and resilient expiry team with the technical capability, capacity, knowledge and skillsets required to deliverthe agreed day to day needs and transition programme leading to safe handover of each NHS hospital, formed from a blend of directly employed and specialist consultants and are independent of the operational PFI management team

RFL Property Services (RFLPS) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (the “RFL Group”). We work in partnership with the RFL Group and multiple other NHS organisations to support and promote good clinical outcomes, enhance patient experience, and enable staff to deliver world class care.

Our vision is simple yet ambitious: to transform the way healthcare estate and operational services are delivered within the NHS and connect people who care through world class spaces.

Since incorporation in 2018, we have grown rapidly, currently managing a portfolio of over 120 properties and delivering services across multiple NHS Trusts. We have been recognised for our efforts in the industry by winning IHEEM and Building Better Healthcare Estates & Facilities Team of the Year and gaining ISO accreditation for several of our services.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, our “parent” Trust, is one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care to more than 1.6 million people a year through our 3 main hospital sitesBarnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free.



RFL Property Services offer Wholly Owned Subsidiary Terms and Conditions and the RFL Group Terms and Conditions (Agenda for Change) do not apply to this vacancy.

Please see enclosed job description for full details on the main duties and responsibilities for this role


This advert closes on Wednesday 21 Aug 2024

1.1 Lead the formation and delivery of RFLPS strategy, providing its Customers and Clients with optimised property asset and estate management solutions. 1.2 Provide senior leadership and direction on all Property Asset and Estate Management initiation and change programmes. 1.3 Provide leadership and direction to the Property team and wider RFLPS teams to ensure delivery against agreed commissions, instructions, SLAs and KPIs. 1.4 Work with RFLPSs internal and external customers and clients to set the property estate strategy to support the overriding RFLPS business strategy. 1.5 Develop long term partnerships with client executive teams and stakeholders and act as the main point of contact to ensure all property change strategies and programmes are managed effectively and in line with the agreed strategies and plans. 1.6 Collaborate with and advise the wider RFLPS Directors and teams including Capital Projects, Transformation, Estates & Facilities in the property asset and estate management capability. 1.7 Deliver fit for purpose environments from which client services are provided from. 1.8 Optimise financial benefit from development opportunities.

The Director of Estates and Facilities will contribute fully to the development of strategy and policy and is responsible for governance, performance management and oversight of estates and facilities across a portfolio of hospitals and health facilities to define and deliver a ground-breaking operating model for services that overcome traditional organisational boundaries and align across the ICS and Provider Alliance for North Central London.

As a DEF you will be responsible to the Technical Operations Director managing director and RFLPS board for developing and maintaining effective systems, processes, and capability to be the best intelligent supplier of operational hard and soft FM services across customer sites and to effectively manage the increasing regulatory requirement, volume, and service complexity to optimise performance capability, responsiveness and operational/commercial excellence.

The DEF will have multi-site responsibility in leading and managing estates and facilities team.

To take responsibility for providing strategic and dynamic leadership to site-based heads of hard and soft FM services plus common multi organisation contracts leads, customer site leads, heads of service and operational teams for bothin-house service provision, contracted out services and advising the PFI manager on all aspects of hard and soft FM performance levels pertaining to the PFI contracts. Be accountable for the efficient and effective provision of comprehensive and flexible client centred services for estates maintenance, resilience planning & management and facility support activities delivering safe, secure and fit for purpose environments across owned, leased and PFI premises in support of NHS Improvement best practice (e.g. PAM).



To support and advise the Technical Operations Director, MD, RFLPS board, other RFLPS directors, customer trust Executives, Divisional Directors, clinicians in the delivery of operations in line all statutory/legislative requirements within agreed financial and performance objectives so as to achieve long-term best value for the organisations whilstensuring the provision of a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors and staff.




• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 3% employer pension contribution
• Access to NHS non contractual benefits

Provide and be responsible for stewardship, leadership, management, monitoring and professional oversight of hard and soft FM services to ensure that the environments are safe, compliant and support effective high-quality care and an outstanding patient experience

Provide assurance to the customer executive boards on all aspects of statutory compliance and provide expert advice on general estate and property matters, assurance and governance resulting from activities associated with the management of customer healthcare premises, infrastructure, and facilities

Put in place quality standards, data collection, analysis, and reporting systems along with evidenced externally verified standard audit process to give assurance to the customer on estate safety, security and compliance; where shortfalls or defects are identified ensure remedial actions are put in place

To manage reactive & planned maintenance, testing, validation, certification and repair of building infrastructure, equipment, and assets across customer estate portfolio.

Provide management oversight of clinical engineering understanding failures, risks, planned maintenance and servicing, replacement programme.

Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation in effective management of hard and soft FM services

Produce and publish a strategic plan and operating model for the future delivery of estate operational services across multiple diverse customer sites that drives improvement, innovation, compliance, capacity, and capability at all levels

Lead and actively participate in the annual budget setting: providing real clarity on costs to safely maintain, operate and manage the RFLG and customer estates services in line with objectives, where budget does not meet cost provide ‘choice’ for others to reduce spend, identifying risks to compliance and business continuity

To support the RFLPS, RFLG and customer sites executive team, Trust Boards, Clinical/Divisional Directors, General Managers, Matrons, Ward Sisters IPC team and other Clinicians by ensuring that they have the right technical & commercial information at the right time to exercise authority.

Ensure that estates strategic design is supported by relevant information technology solutions to ensure delivery of a workable process design, using open protocol hardware, where appropriate and available, allowing an informed options appraisal of solutions based on reliability and life cycle costing.

Identify and schedule technical risks and uncertainties for estates services and ensure these are incorporated in the Trust group risk register. Provide regular monthly updates to reflect how key risks are mitigated / dealt with.


This advert closes on Friday 19 Jul 2024

This post will be responsible for the leadership and oversight of a broad portfolio of work encompassing both short/medium term transformational projects/assignments and business as usual responsibilities such as ongoing provider management. The post holder will hold oversight of system partners plans for their estates albeit noting that providers remain operationally responsible for their assets. The post holder must ensure that the ICB strategic plan is aligned with acute, community and mental health Trusts plans to enable delivery of their services. They are also responsible for development and delivery of the Primary Care estate strategy and should have a good understanding of contract law and lease management, particularly with respect to LIFT. The post holder should ensure that the ICB can meet the NCZ requirements as set out by NHSE as part of the estate strategy. This will include alignment with Trust sustainability strategies and will be expected to give strategic direction on backlog maintenance/listed buildings and conditions including asbestos management, RAAC, accessibility etc across the whole ICB portfolio. Key responsibilities for the post holder will include: Operational and strategic development and delivery: Develop and implement strategies within the assigned work area(s), incorporating borough- and sector-level requirements and working in conjunction with partner organisations. Use deep knowledge of portfolio area to support the identification of opportunities and potential future priorities, and lead the engagement with stakeholders to refine and prioritise delivery plans. Achieving NCZ obligations is included as above. Planning and organisation: Input into wider organisational and pan-sector strategies on behalf of the programme/borough, ensuring that key priorities for the post holders work area are integrated with and aligned to broader objectives. Programme management: Lead/oversee delivery of identified projects and programmes within the portfolio, including scoping of work in line with NWL objectives, establishing and following appropriate governance processes, reporting on progress and conducting reviews/lessons learned exercises at the conclusion of a project. Governance and communication: Support the establishment of effective programme governance to monitor and scrutinise the delivery of agreed priorities. Utilise governance mechanisms effectively to escalate and resolve issues and communicate progress updates to a senior audience including board level leadership. Staff management: Oversee the delivery team and assume responsibility for staff management and development, including as a point of escalation for staffing issues. Allocate appropriate resources to specific project areas, ensuring assignments are clearly scoped and adequately resourced to achieve stated project aims. Support The ICS estates programme, supporting the SRO and leading the Trust Estate Directors in the delivery of agreed plans. Local practices, where appropriate, with the premises issues providing advice, support and guiding through the NHSE/I process. Manage teams as and when required (permanent and/or interim/ contracted). Deputise for the SRO as and when required. Additional roles/requirement will include: Attend, lead and/or chair senior, complex meetings and accurately record discussions in concise, clear minutes; Organise and manage the logistics of events and meetings. Represent the ICB Estates function at NHSE level Boards and lobby where required Represent the ICB at planning and other committee meetings for large development projects as and when submitted to the local authority Make applications to the DH for nationwide issues (District Valuation issues, Capital Allocations, Net Carbon Zero etc) Working Conditions This role involves occasionally visiting construction and/or healthcare sites. This would include: Sitting, standing, walking; some physical effort. Light physical effort; A frequent requirement for prolonged concentration Occasional indirect exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances. Occasional/frequent unpleasant conditions- dust and dirt on site.

We are seeking an inspirational individual with passion and resilience for leading sustainable and measurable performance improvement by planning, developing and delivering integrated multi-site services and outstanding user experience in complex and demanding environments.

With emotional intelligence, the Technical Operations Director must provide strong technical engineering and facilities leadership to empower and motivate staff in problem solving, orchestrating innovation and demonstrate technical excellence in the planning and delivery of safe, compliant and effective solutions to address the increasingly complex and multi-faceted challenges faced by our customers and their estate.

Commercially aware, perseverant professional with a strong track record of building and maintaining excellent strategic and operational relationships with colleagues, customers, stakeholders and regulators with proficiency to accurately communicate complex technical issues to audiences confidently, clearly and simply.

The post holder will play an active role within the Board of Directors, from time-to-time, act as deputy for the Managing Director and contribute to the overall development and implementation of the RFL Property Services long term vision, strategic direction and governance arrangements in the delivery of its agreed objectives through its service partnership agreement back to the Trust.

Build and maintain effective, positive relations and provide strong technical estates and facilities advice, support and expert counsel to all RLPS customers including the RFL group board, their sub-committees, executive meetings and operational service customers as may be required in event of incident, at routine planned and ad-hoc meetings

Act as the main point of contact and escalation for RFLPS customers, RFL group, hospital site executive teams, NHS England, CQC and HSE for all matters relating to operational estate & facilities performance, regulatory compliance, and audit to inform, evidence and assure.

Be accountable for driving delivery of agreed operational performance and compliance standards set out in SLA’s, contracts and partnering agreement across RFLPS customer sites and safe transition of PFI contracts from private to public sector ownership upon expiry.

Act as a technical lead for a wide variety of projects including due diligence, investigation and remedial design and execution, informing project planning through to site closure for a range of client instructions.

Enhancing infrastructure and equipment reliability across multiple sites: You will be responsible for improving Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) measurements, ensuring our customer site operations run smoothly and efficiently.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday
• Access to NEST pension scheme
• Car leasing scheme
• Central London office location
1. STRATEGY
• Work within a cross functional senior leadership team to actively input and contribute to the overall development and implementation of RFL Property Services long term vision, business planning, strategic direction and governance arrangement.
• Lead the establishment, development and implementation of RFLPS operational Estates and Facilities strategies, goals and objectives, to ensure high standard of customer experience is delivered back to our customers through SLAs.
• Work in collaboration with customer senior Executive team to ensure a fully integrated and technically sound Estates and Facilities service is delivered in line with the agreed partnering agreements and SLAs, while considering the wider health, safety, legal, regulatory and compliance implications on the customers, its patients, employees and the public is given.
• Provide the Managing Director and the RFLPS Board of Directors with expert advice and guidance on service delivery and operational issues, and any associated or perceived risks and threats which may stem from the development and implementation of strategic operations of Estates and Facilities at our customer sites.
2. SERVICE DELIVERY AND OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE
• Take full-service delivery, operational, commercial and budgetary accountability for the strategic management of Estates and Facilities and associated technical services across the NHS hospital and community sites (including PFI and Decontamination services) on behalf of our customers and key stakeholders to ensure legislative and HTM compliance, safe environments for delivery of effective care and successful delivery of agreed SLAs and the Strategic Partnering Agreement with RFL Group.
• Work as an integral part of the RFLPS Senior Leadership team offering comprehensive and technically sound input, advice and support across the Estates and Facilities to ensure short- and long-term business objectives and targets are met.
• Establish strong customer relationships and rapport, and in-depth understanding of their needs with a view to grow engagements and customer satisfaction.
• Explore opportunities for innovation in service delivery, develop case for change, implement change to delivery models where agreed and measure actual benefit returns
3. COMMERCIAL
• Have a keen understanding of Profit and Loss (P&L) statements related operational services and lead efforts to reduce expenses and maximize efficiency.
• Take full accountability for cost efficiency in operational services, their effective budget management, profit and margin of all sites and hold the team accountable for their own sites/business areas.
• Participate in annual planning and budget setting process and monthly budget review meetings to ensure RFLPS operate within the agreed budget, deliver agreed annual FIP targets and give early warning of need for unregulated spend; hold teams accountable for the commercial performance of their business sites/areas/units.
• Actively and positively contribute to RFLPS’s sustainable growth, income generation and delivery of any assigned financial improvement and income generation programmes within the agreed deadlines.
• Work in partnership with all directors and RFLPS team to secure NHS and non-NHS income as appropriate, ensure service delivery is within the SLAs, and where necessary, work with the managing director to take remedial action, including the curtailment of services where these exceed agreements.
4. PERFORMANCE, RISK AND GOVERNANCE
• Develop and facilitate sustainable and high performing organisational culture which is consistent with the values of the RFLPS and its customers.
• Lead the Estates and Facilities operational teams across different sites to ensure all agreed performance targets are delivered and exceeded.
• Recognise, understand and on behalf of RFLPS, lead on the management of risk and consequence of failure on service delivery, critical infrastructure, incident management and escalation, develop and implement strategic priorities and solutions to ensure effective control and risk mitigation/management.
• Responsible and accountable for service delivery to RFLPS customers on a day-to-day basis and ensure high performance and confident in delivery of all services, business plans, CQC standards and CQC compliance.
• Provide expert advice and support to customers governance structures as required, including the Board of Directors, Council of Governors and Finance & Investment Committee.
5. CONTINUOUS SERVICE IMPROVEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION
• Lead key continuous improvement initiatives relating to reporting, monitoring and risk management across all Estates and Facilities operational service delivery sites.
• Identify opportunities for process efficiency, effective cost management and continuous improvement and initiate key projects to drive performance improvement, efficiency or savings.
• Drive implementation of continuous improvement solutions on safety, operations efficiency, cost savings and financial performance improvement to address the increasingly complex challenges faced by our customers.
• Lead on the development and execution of operational efficiency through enhancing infrastructure and equipment reliability across all customer sites and be accountable for overall improvement on MTTR and MTBF.
6. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF STAFF
• Provide effective, visible, strong and inspirational leadership to deliver great outcomes for our customers and RFLPS.
• Lead the senior Estates and Facilities leadership team and provide strategic, technical and expert advice, guidance and support to ensure the successful execution of our Estates and Facilities service delivery strategy.
• Build senior leadership skills and knowledge through robust development plans and be authentic on career development paths for your team members.
• Be a visible, inspiring and engaging leader and communicate RFLPS’s compelling long-term business visions, strategies, goals and objectives to your team to ensure successful delivery and execution of all business plans
• Act as a technical mentor to the Estates and Facilities leadership and management team.
7. COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS
• Build collaborative working relationship across People, Finance, Consultancy division and the key functions from the wider Trusts.
• Build strong senior customer relationships with internal and external customers and the key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of Estates and Facilities SLAs to all customers.
• Ensure the development of seamless relationship between Estates and Facilities management team and the Trust Senior leadership team across all sites and that a positive relationship with all customers is maintained while driving the delivery of agreed SLAs and, the continuous and sustainable growth.
• Proactively engagement with customer’s senior leadership team to build and nurture effective and positive relationship with RFL group board, their sub-committees, through the attendance of executive meetings and/or other planned or ad-hoc meetings.
• Maintain strong, positive and professional relations through effective communication with RFLPS customers sites including board executive directors, particularly the CFO and CDO, hospital chief executives, directors of operations, finance and nursing.
• Maintain relationships with service providers on operational matters to ensure that RFLPS operational profile is cost effective and long and short-term requirements are properly matched to the Trust’s strategic vision, goals and objectives.


This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024

Are you an experienced general, operations or site manager from the hotel, student accommodation, retail, serviced offices or leisure sector looking for an exciting career change?

Our client, an award-winning property management company are looking for a professional to join their team as an Estate Director, to run a great development located in Brentford. They are seeking an individual looking to advance their career and become an integral part of their management team, while bringing fresh ideas and innovative thinking to the table.

The role of an Estate director includes the efficient management of a designated development, ensuring that the highest quality of service is provided to the client and residents. This opportunity is very much a hands on role, that at times may require you to roll up your sleeves and support your team with the day to day running of the operation.

Duties to include:

• Strategic planning to ensure standards are met and excelled
• Liaising with key stakeholders such as the client and agents
• Making improvements to an inherited development, ensuring that SLA's are in line with the companies standards
• Experience of taking over existing property/operation
• Change management, being able to both identify need for change and to plan/execute this
• Coordinate property maintenance
• Enhance the customers experience, whilst utilising the team to do so
• Supporting with set up and maintenance of systems on site
• Reporting on compliance, ensuring audit requirements are met
• Creating a highly engaged team who will deliver exceptional service
• Rota management and absence management
• Team management including performance management, completing 121's, training management and effective delegation to team leaders and management
• Financial management including raising work orders, invoice and PO approval, setting up budgets and presenting budgets and finances to clients
• Client engagement, facilitation of meetings with clients

Skill requirements:

• Senior management experience within hotel, retail or leisure sectors or similar
• Experience of taking over existing properties/operations

• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Excellent organisation skills
• Change management experience
• Strong communication skills

Benefits to include:

• Starting with 25 days of annual leave (excluding bank holidays).
• One additional day of paid holiday after two years of continuous employment, with further increases.
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme for bikes.
• Cashback scheme for eyeglasses and dental, including coverage for employees' children under 18.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and on-site trained Mental Health Advisors.

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

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Are you an experienced high-level Assistant who is interested in working in an unique environment? Keen to join a department which is at the forefront of SMG's ambitious plans for the future?

About the role
As Executive Assistant to the Director of Estates and the Director of Masterplan, you will have an intimate viewpoint of the organisation and the 5 museums within the Group.

Diligently supporting both Directors, you will managing diaries and often act as first point of contact with inbox management. You will also lead the organisation, support and minuting committees and other instrumental meetings. The glue to the efficient management of a proactive and inspired office, you will communicate on behalf of the Directors with key external contacts, and with colleagues at all levels across the organisation.

The role has real scope for impact - consisting of managing a complex and diverse workload to tight deadlines, and with your own projects to lead. Using your expert judgement, you will proactively manage the correspondence and schedule of the Directors, to ensure the skilful co-ordination of their activities across the Group.

We can offer a hybrid working patter for this position, with a mix of office and home working, however you will need to be able to work from our Manchester site 3 days a week.

Contract: Permanent, Full time 35hour per week
Salary: up to £30,500 per annum, depending on experience

Download the Vacancy Information Pack file under 'Attachments' on this vacancy listing on the Science Museum Group website for more details about the role and the application process.

About you
Highly proactive and confident working with colleagues across all levels of the organisation, as well as the offices of high-profile external leaders - You have exceptional interpersonal and communications skills to maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels. With extensive experience of prioritising and managing multiple and conflicting tasks, diaries and deadlines; responding flexibly to requests, you have a pre-emptive approach to time management that of your own as well as others.

You have a demonstrable ability to take minutes, ideally for board level audiences, to a professional, accurate standard; with the capacity to produce minutes in a timely manner and convert technical jargon to relevant audiences. Resourceful by nature, you can take the reins to draw together people and resources needed to make things happen, with little supervision.

Crucially, you will be highly organised and efficient, with good attention to detail, and an ability to show tact and discretion.

Don't feel you meet all the criteria? We welcome you to apply even if your experience doesn't match perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.

What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.

• Support with personal and professional development
• 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced contributory pension
• Unmind App and other wellbeing support
• Interest-free loans
• Days Out discounts
• BUPA Health & Dental Insurance

Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.

Your new company
Your new job as a Construction Client Service Director will be working for a specialist Independent Lloyd's Insurance Broker with offices based around the UK to include the City, Watford and the Southeast who provide, unparallel services to meet client demands and needs. They have more than 100 staff across the offices and are looking to expand that number further. Due to substantial growth within the Construction team a position for a Construction Client Service Director with UK Construction ( CAR) and related risks has arisen.


Your new role
Your new role will be working as Construction Client Service Director based within their London offices will be hybrid working 3 days in the office, (the rest from home) . You will be responsible for fully servicing a book of Construction clients, as well as try to encourage growth plans for your allocated client portfolio by cross selling new and renewal business. Dealing with your clients from inception to completion alongside Account Executives and Account Handlers. Your new role will also include developing and enhancing relationships with key insurers and underwriters and work closely with the other divisions in forging long-term relationships with existing and new clients. This role will also include advising on existing products. This is an all-encompassing Client Director role which is very client centric and will require your Technical and Account management experience to work as part of an established Construction team in looking after your allocated clients and helping to grow the business,

What you'll need to succeed
Your previous experience working as a Senior Construction Account Executive or Client Director with CAR experience will contribute to your success in securing this role. Experience of working to multiple priorities and working across a range of tasks Educated to Good standards ( i.e. A Level or equivalent) or enough experience in a previous role to demonstrate suitable skills and ideally minimum Cert CII qualified.

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING UK CONSTRUCTION ( CAR) EXPERIENCE WITHIN AN INSURANCE BROKER OR LLOYD'S BROKER AS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE OR CLIENT DIRECTOR

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.
You'll be offered a competitive salary of up to c£80,000 + Bonus and Benefits depending on experience you'll receive support from both directors your colleagues and management.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Your new company
I am currently working with a Multi Disciplined Building Consultancy based in the City of London. They are working with a number of exciting clients across London from Large Estates to Corporate buildings. The company has been going for over 20 years and have seen continued and rapid growth, going from strength to strength.
Your new role
Day-to-day responsibilities include but not restricted to the following:
* Assist with new business, preparing bids and quotes.
* Undertaking measurement and building surveys (residential and commercial)
* Undertaking Schedules of Condition and Awards for Party Wall matters
* Write specifications and prepare tender and contract documentation
* Provide Contract Administrator services on projects
* Chair project progress meetings and prepare minutes and progress reports
* Undertaking dilapidation surveys and preparing schedules
* Undertaking defect analysis surveys and preparing reports
* Preparing Licences to Alter
* Assist with Expert Witness matters and preparation of CPR35 reports
* Continued Business Development
What you\'ll need to succeed
* To have an RICS accredited Degree in Building Surveying
* To be a full member of the RICS (MRICS)
* Strong interpersonal skills with colleagues, clients and members of the public
* Good IT skills and a full working knowledge of Microsoft Office
* Have a keen eye for detail and strive to provide a quality service.
What you\'ll get in return
A generous salary, paying from £77,000 - £90,000 (depending on experience)
Discretionary Annual Bonus
Company trips abroad
What you need to do now
If you\'re interested in this role, click \'apply now\' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn\'t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk