Building Surveyor - Wells & Co. - Bedford, Bedfordshire

Building Surveyor – Wells & Co.

Bedford, Bedfordshire*

Company Description

Wells & Co – a brewery, a growing managed pub portfolio, a well-established Pub Partner estate, English pubs in France and 150 years of history.

Position

• Overseeing the maintenance and upkeep of our pub properties, ensuring dilapidations are minimized to protect asset value.
• Ensuring that Pub Partner repairing obligations and compliance matters are appropriately discharged and that sites are always handed back in good condition.
• Working closely with pub managers to optimize operations, improve the retail offer, and maximize profitability.
• Working with your Operational colleagues, develop and deliver a robust investment programme which seeks to offer innovative, market leading capital investment, capturing market share and improving Group EBITDA.

This will include, monitoring financial performance and ROI on all investment activity, ensuring that corrective actions are taken necessary.

• Establishing professional working relationships with external agencies, designers, property professionals and suppliers who can help deliver best in class pubs in a timely and cost-effective way.
• Building and maintain positive relationships with pub managers and tenants, providing exceptional support and assistance as needed.
• Collaborating with all stakeholders to reduce the company’s carbon footprint in respect of how property investment works are undertaken.
• Staying abreast of market trends and competition, identifying opportunities for improvement within our pub portfolio.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience in similar roles within the Pub, Retail, Commercial or Leisure industry
• Degree educated
• A passion for the Licensed Retail Sector and committed to delivering profitable businesses.
• Resilience to thrive in an exciting and changing business environment.
• Energetic and self-motivated eager to see results.
• Well-rounded commercial understanding, proven operational experience and effective planning, problem solving and decision making.
• Excellent negotiation skills, in addition to good communication and a positive motivator
• Ability to flex comfortably between tactical / operational detail and long-term strategic planning.
• Effective in identifying problems and possible causes of problems with the ability to come up with innovative solutions.
• A readiness to make decisions, render judgements and act where necessary.

Other information

• 60,000 – £68,000 – subject to exp
• Car allowance
• 25 days annual leave + b / h
• Private medical health care
• Group personal pension plan
• Life assurance
• 30% off dining and retail

If you are looking to develop your career within a Company who are led by family values whilst still striving to innovate, invest and progress, this may be the role for you.