National Property Manager

In this role not only do you get to negotiate and oversee good property outcomes for your clients, but also build lasting relationships with busy operational staff, and fully immerse yourself in overseeing the negotiations and legal matters for a leasehold property acquisition. You will also work with the facilities and construction teams to fit out the property and get to see the asset fully operational, then in a few years time you will be back again to help with rent reviews. From this learning you will be able to build upon the experience to better the property outcome for the next acquisition or disposal.

There will be tangible results from your efforts in property acquisition including the positive impact for the operational teams. You get the opportunity to work collaboratively with our customers and influence longer term and higher-level strategic property plans, ensuring NHSBT has great value property assets. Your challenge will be able to analyse property and legal information and ensure we comply with legislation and achieve a good property outcome to meet business need. This work could involve reviewing a detailed service charge application, new lease, licence to alter, wayleave or approach agreeing the approach to dilapidations. You will need to have the general practice surveyor skills to influence a variety of stakeholders in order to come up with robust property plans.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will manage, in conjunction with Estates and Facilities Managers, all property matters associated with the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) estate. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Attending a face-to-face meeting or a video call to support senior staff with decision making around a particular property, or input and guide on high level plans for managing the estate.
2. Keeping the Estates and Facilities team fully briefed on the implications of all relevant property management developments, including changes in legislation and best practice.
3. Leading a cross-departmental team in inspecting properties and complete a scoring plan to decide on which properties to move forward with.
4. Providing advice on all property matters, including rents, rates, valuations, service charges, acquisitions and disposals.
5. Reviewing comments by a legal advisor to a property lease and provide feedback and direction on matters arising.
6. Supporting and leading your direct report/s so they feel valued and that NHSBT is a great place to work.
7. Producing a short report to allow internal and sponsor approvals for a lease or rent review.
8. Chairing contract management meetings with external property and legal advisors.
9. Supporting with annual budget planning for rents, and service charge.
10. Inputting, checking, and auditing databases for Property.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Qualifications

• Requirement for Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) professional registration required (which must be maintained in the role).
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience to Masters level
• Masters degree in a property management related subject OR equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• A formal property management qualification and a member of the professional body, the RICS.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
• Possession of a valid driving licence, allowing you to drive in the UK.
• Good practice principles in budget management.

Experience

• Proven property management and surveying experience, preferably in a service environment, in both the NHS and commercial sectors.
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
• People management experience to lead a team of external professionals, and support with contract management.
• Experience of negotiating leases, disposals, dilapidations, and acquisitions.
• Experience of collaborating in a customer-orientated environment.
• Experience of working in a dispersed, multi-site organisation.
• Experience of reporting at senior management team level.
• Experience of operating with minimal supervision.
• Extensive experience in property management
• Experience of developing property strategies.