Job Description

Marks Consulting Partners are currently recruiting for a Head of Assets to work with one of our local authority clients in the West Midlands.

This is a temporary position paying £600 per day, with hybrid working available.

What you will be doing:

• Providing strategic leadership across a local authority's property and asset management function
• Managing and leading a team of surveyors and property professionals, ensuring effective delivery of asset and estates services
• Acting as the lead adviser on all asset management matters and providing professional guidance to senior leadership and elected members
• Leading the development and implementation of asset strategies to maximise the value and performance of the property portfolio
• Overseeing estate management, property management, valuations, acquisitions and disposals, and contract management activities
• Driving service improvements and ensuring assets are managed in line with corporate objectives and statutory requirements
• Developing effective relationships with internal departments, external organisations and key stakeholders
• Supporting the delivery of regeneration, capital and investment projects across the authority
• Ensuring strong governance, compliance and performance management across the asset function

What you will need:

• MRICS qualification is essential
• Significant experience within asset management and estates functions, ideally within a local authority or public sector environment
• Proven experience managing and leading teams of surveyors and property professionals
• Extensive knowledge of estate management, valuations, property management, acquisitions and disposals, and contract management
• Experience operating at a senior management level and advising senior stakeholders on complex property matters
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience developing and implementing asset strategies and delivering service improvements
• Commercial awareness and the ability to manage a diverse property portfolio
• Previous experience within an interim local authority role would be highly desirable.

If this job is not quite right for you but you are looking for something new, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Marks Consulting Partners specialise in contract and permanent recruitment of technical property, regeneration and development, housing services and HR staff to the public sector including housing associations, local authorities and related private sector organisations. We do not advertise all our vacancies so please give us a call and register with us to be notified of all suitable roles.