Associate Director Asset Consulting (Basé à London)

Resourcing Group have the privilege of recruiting for this unique career opportunity. It is suited to an experienced professional with a strong technical background in Building Surveying and the drive to create meaningful change and inspire growth across the company. This role has the potential to accelerate your career from within a vibrant multi-disciplinary organisation.

As part of the Asset Consulting team leadership, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead the teams building surveying service offer. Building upon existing client relationships held by the team and growing and adding to these to help shape a new team around you. The company proudly supports hybrid working; however, candidates will be expected to be in our office 2-3 days a week.

Are you a natural problem solver who enjoys collaborating directly with clients to bring pragmatic, resilient, and environmentally sensitive solutions to the built environment? This is a pivotal role that will see you acting as an Associate Director in the Asset Consultancy team. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the overall provision of strategic property advice for both individual buildings and complete premises portfolios, across the cultural, commercial, entertainment, financial, utilities, technology, and education sectors.

This role would suit a highly experienced property professional with strong consulting skills and a genuine interest in solving complex problems. Above all, we’re looking for someone that’s passionate about enhancing the performance and usability of existing buildings to create a more sustainable world.

What is Asset Consultancy? Our Asset Consulting team is a multi-disciplinary group and part of the wider Specialist Engineering community within the company. Working directly with investors, operators, and end user clients, the team provide strategic technical advice focusing on the operation, design life, flexibility and maintainability of assets during the anticipated life of a building. Known for their pragmatic, hands-on approach, they work closely with their clients to diagnose and solve problems, optimise building performance, reduce running and operational costs and plan for organisational change.

With previous involvement in high-profile estates such as the British Museum, Cambridge University and Birmingham Airport, our Asset Consultancy team have established themselves as true specialists in their field.

What will you be doing? Associate Directors within the practice are responsible for taking a lead on technical problem solving and whole projects across many sectors including sport and culture, aviation, commercial, scientific and education. Recent projects have included major airports, national football stadia, university campuses and corporate headquarter buildings as well as an ongoing portfolio of work in the local region.

• Provide professional property advice to clients and end-users including, but not limited to, building performance, forward maintenance planning, capital expenditure programming, dilapidations, creative reuse and project management activities.
• Act as Project Director.
• Lead development of strategic, technically based reports and plans to present directly to clients and end-users.
• Take ownership for client relationships with end-users, developers, contractors, etc.
• Organise resources and ensure that services and projects are carried out to an agreed programme and within budget.
• Prepare financial proposals for new work.
• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning job resourcing/expenditure.
• Ensure all relevant company staff are informed of client matters.
• Contribute to and lead company-wide initiatives with respect to technical development/market sectors and processes.
• Commitment to CPD and self-learning/development.
• Actively seek new opportunities for the Group internally and externally; actively cross-sell other company disciplines externally.

More about you. As an experienced property professional, it is expected that you will be able to demonstrate:

• Chartered status with a relevant industry body (such as the RICS, CIBSE or similar) with experience in facilities management/property consultancy.
• Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organisation, combined with the ability to work independently.
• Experience in the preparation of professional reports for delivery direct to a client audience.
• Project management and coordination of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong financial and account management skills.
• The applicant will need to be an excellent communicator (verbal, written and listening) with experience of presenting (you will often be required to present solutions directly to clients).
• Bachelors degree (BEng)/BSc or Masters degree (MEng)/MSc in relevant discipline.
• Mobility to travel at short notice.