SPR - Head of Estate Management

Head of Estate Management – SPR

Glasgow

Salary from £68,800 per annum, 30% bonus, Car Allowance & Family Health Cover

Flexible & Hybrid Working

Help us create a better future, quicker

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading a team of experts to ensure a robust and comprehensive strategy and implementation of Estate Management delivery.
• Work closely with the relevant Business Directors, other stakeholders & external parties including key Landowners to manage live, operational contracts proactively identifying any risks to portfolio to remove current and future risks.
• Manage and lead team responsible for making in excess of £50m per annum land payments.
• Define, manage, and review department processes and reporting.
• Tracking and managing department KPI’s with full alignment to Business objectives and project delivery goals.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead an Estates Management team and wider department of professionally qualified Surveyors and expert team.
• Proactive strategy and implementation of the Business land management strategy ensuring 100% compliance of lease obligations.
• Management of an Operational lease portfolio currently extending to over 200 contracts covering 40 windfarms and 3GW of capacity required to operate the entire Onshore & Offshore operations.
• Accountable for land budget excess of £50m per annum.
• Ensuring all land processes are defined, published, and audited to ensure wider dept compliance with Department operational delivery.
• Manage and mitigate impact of financial exposure across property portfolio ensuring all payments are appropriately made and in line with lease obligations.
• Mitigate financial and operational risk ensuring full compliance with all statutory requirements and ensuring contractual obligations are met.
• Developing and delivering land strategies which will help deliver Business objectives, meeting and adding to Business Operating plans.
• Advising and preventing the potential of multi-million pound claims across portfolio that may impact operational delivery and Company profitability and reputation.
• Work with Business Directors to define and agree the Estate Management needs of the Business having clear vision on the future Business plans and how Estate Management delivery will influence.
• Prepare, challenge, and manage budget submissions, mitigating any increased costs whilst ensuring full compliance with all legal and compliance across portfolio and land rights.
• Will seek income opportunities across portfolio to maximise assets for any divestment or short-term income.
• Work closely with Business Directors to ensure any changes to market strategy is understood and legal compliance with contracts is adhered to.
• Accountable for audit of lease portfolio providing Business CEO requisite comfort around lease compliance and mitigation of risk for future Business growth.
• Pro-actively manage a varied property portfolio, seeking opportunities to work collaboratively with wider SPR teams to develop strategies to deliver cost and environmental benefits to portfolio.
• Key role in ensuring representation of SPR Estates across any Business plan submission which will have an impact on land rights management and consequential financial requirements.

What you’ll bring

• Open, inclusive, and approachable style of management leading collaboration across team, stakeholders and SPR.
• Detailed understanding of Energy market with particular focus on relevant Business area for the short-, medium- and long-term targets.
• Ability to promote professional standards as well as being a key role model holding a high-profile position across an SP Business.
• Experience working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including Senior colleagues, Solicitors & External industry peers to develop strategies, objectives, policies, and procedures designed to achieve the highest performance levels for a land & property portfolio.
• Ability to work autonomously on high profile, time of the essence projects recognising the need for support and sensitivity where required.
• Proactive approach to Real Estate Management with an ability to recognise opportunities for efficiencies and new approaches.
• Have an ability to keep abreast of wider market factors that will influence land delivery strategy including growing and developing a network of key contacts to aid such.
• Strong leadership credentials.
• Strong ability to mentor, coach and develop a team of Chartered Surveyors ensuring the correct allocation of resource to meet an ever-changing workload and demand.
• As Professionally qualified Chartered Surveyors the team must ensure compliance with regulations and standards pertaining to all aspects of the built environment.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that – so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave.
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave.
• Share Schemes.
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding.
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases.
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving.
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans.
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments.
• Life Assurance (4x salary).
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support.
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more.

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to

Due to the level of this position, successful candidates will be required to complete additional background checks and any offer is subject to passing such checks.

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