Senior Leasehold Property Manager at Department for Work and Pensions
NUT, England, United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Feb, 25

Salary

66058.0

Posted On

19 Nov, 24

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

No

Telecommute

No

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Investigation, Gears, Forecasting, Norway, Property Management, Reporting, Working Environment, Research, Budgeting, Decision Making, Communication Skills, Analytical Skills

Industry

Real Estate/Mortgage

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)

This role sits within the following:

  • Job Family – Strategic Asset Management
  • Core Role – Property Portfolio Management
  • Level – Senior Practitioner

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • To provide leadership and oversight of all DWP’s leasehold responsibilities including
  • Property transactions required to deliver strategic change eg: acquisitions and disposals, lease regears and landlords’ consents.
  • Lease event management eg Rent reviews & lease renewals.
  • Day to day estate management duties to ensure compliance with lease obligations.
  • To act as a subject matter expert, providing advice and direction to the senior stakeholders to shape strategy in accordance with best practice.
  • Drive financial performance to meet in year budget targets, providing accurate annual and monthly forecasts within their region or building portfolio and identify and proactively address opportunities for cost reduction including:
  • exploiting lease event opportunities to keep operating cost to a minimum.
  • maximise opportunities to recover business rates and service charge costs.
  • identifying opportunities to increase revenue from the estate and vacant space.
  • Accountability for commercial assurance and approval of financial commitments for commercial property transactions within Delegated financial levels and provide recommendations to governance forums where required, to ensure value for money and commercial probity.
  • Providing development and leadership for your team, embedding new ways of working and fostering a culture of ‘One Team’ that includes supplier partners and wider teams in DWP Estates, role modelling the civil service behaviours.
  • Instruction and management of third-party supplier partners including building commercial relationships and ensuring appropriate challenge and professional rigour is applied to recommendations and decisions.
  • Accountability for accuracy of lease data, governance reports and supplier management reporting through regular audit and assurance activities.
  • Collaboration with other DWP Estates teams to review, develop and continuously improve cross team end to end processes to ensure effective hand-offs of responsibilities are clear and align with each area of expertise.
  • Key stakeholder engagement and management, acting as subject matter expert and point of escalation on all aspects of leasehold management.
  • To keep abreast of wider Government property initiatives and other government departments strategic intentions, to determine their impact on the DWP Estate eg One Public Estate, MEES/sustainability.
  • To keep up to date with market trends, understand and interpret benchmark information about “best in class” solutions to drive efficiencies across the estate when undertaking transactions and financial and supplier management.
  • Undertake scenario planning exercises that analyse long term market and economic trends, considering how this might influence and develop the future DWP estates strategy.
  • To ensure consistency in approach and continuous improvement throughout the extended team by regularly reviewing methodology, process, and approach, identifying lessons learned and sharing knowledge as and when required.
  • Ensure succession planning for the Leasehold team by managing capability assessment, professional development of the existing team.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

  • Demonstrable experience in commercial property management gained within the property function of a large organisation.
  • A successful track record of managing complex and high value estate management transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, lease renewals, re gears and rent reviews.
  • Sound judgement and ability to demonstrate commercial acumen in decision making.
  • Experienced in financial management of outgoing property liabilities including forecasting, budgeting and rental accounting.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills including experience in presenting to senior governance forums.
  • Strong analytical skills including research and investigation, able to analyse and manipulate data for reporting and decision making.
  • Experienced in instructing, managing and leading real estate suppliers.
  • Ability to engage and work effectively with technical, legal and regulatory matters.
  • Strong track record in leading teams in a hybrid working environment.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Responsibilities

This role sits within the following:

  • Job Family – Strategic Asset Management
  • Core Role – Property Portfolio Management
  • Level – Senior Practitione
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