Asset Manager (Property Strategy & Performance)

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Job Description

| Salary £52,573 - £56,860 Per annum | Permanent, Full time - 37 hours | Asset Management Service | Lancashire |

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International Sponsorship - this role is not open to international sponsorship

Asset Management Service

Job Title: Property Asset Manager (Strategy and Performance)

Area: Lancashire

Salary: £52,573 - £56,860

We are currently recruiting:

Lancashire County Council

At Lancashire County Council, we are helping to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper. Lancashire is the fourth largest local authority in England, delivering diverse services from a wide and varied property portfolio. Lancashire County Council exists to serve everyone who lives or works in Lancashire. We are committed to developing and celebrating our diverse communities, heritage, and landscape to create a strong sense of place we can all be proud of. At the heart of our strategy for delivery are our four priorities: delivering better services, protecting our environment, supporting economic growth, and caring for the vulnerable.

The Asset Management Service provides strategic management of the county council's property and school assets to ensure that they meet the aims of the Corporate Strategy and support service delivery across the county.

The Property Review and Performance Team provide and facilitate the county council's strategic management and decision-making in relation to premises to ensure that the county council's property assets enable the delivery of corporate priorities. In addition, the team are responsible for the central management of property data for all the council's premises, which comprises of in the region of 630 schools and over 1000 other land and property holdings.

Role & Responsibilities:

We are looking to appoint an experienced property asset manager with an excellent understanding of managing a property portfolio that enables public sector service delivery. As Asset Manager (Strategy and Performance) you will be an outstanding individual who will play a key role in ensuring that Lancashire County Council's land and buildings continue to meet requirements for service delivery during ongoing and significant financial challenge and organisational change.

The successful candidate will become involved in a range of premises related issues including estates, financial, premises management, design, project and programme management, legal and data management.

We are looking for a professional who has experience of working in a political environment with a good understanding of the operational requirements of public services. Adaptable and resilient, the successful candidate will have excellent communication and negotiation skills combined with strong organisational skills.

Highly developed critical thinking skills are required, alongside innovative problem-solving skills and experience of successfully managing complex issues and requirements.

With a proven history of effective partnership working, you will have the ability, expertise, and confidence to both work collaboratively with, and support and challenge internal and external stakeholders and partners, including a wide range of professionals and senior managers.

As well as your strong knowledge and understanding of strategic premises issues and proven project and change management skills, you will be a passionate, driven individual with a record of achieving results against targets.

Reporting to the Head of Property, the role includes:

• Leadership and management of the Property Review and Performance Team.
• Providing strategic management of the council's property portfolio to ensure that our property assets enable the delivery of corporate priorities.
• Providing strategic property asset management advice to the Head of Property, senior leaders, and elected members.
• Developing and implementing property asset management strategies to provide a property portfolio that supports the county council's service delivery within budget requirements.
• Managing the county council's core property record (property asset management system) at a corporate level.
• Monitoring and evaluating property performance metrics, including compliance, to drive our property performance improvement process, benchmarking, and monitoring of policy delivery.
• Provide regular property performance reports to the Head of Property for senior leaders and elected members.
• Manage the budget and resources for the team.
• Manage the capital project specification and programme delivery of suitability works to operational premises.
• Work collaboratively with, support, and challenge internal and external stakeholders and partners, including a wide range of professionals and senior leaders.
• Lead, inspire and engage individuals towards the achievement of strategic and service objectives.
• Manage and coordinate the advice of senior professionals across a range of premises related issues including estates, financial, premises management, legal and data management.

For background information, please see our Property Asset Management Strategy

Please note that when completing your supporting statement, it's important that you have specifically demonstrated and evidenced that you meet each essential criteria from the person specification in line with the role responsibilities as detailed above. If you do not meet the criteria, but feel you possess relevant qualities, please demonstrate within your supporting statement.

You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability.

Please feel free to contact us for an initial informal and confidential chat:

Email: emma.pearse@lancashire.gov.uk Telephone: 01772 533230

Closing Date: 22/09/2024 Interviews: W/C 07/10/2024

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Job Description and Person Specification