At Bruntwood, we're committed to offering more than just outstanding office, coworking, town centre, retail and lab spaces. Everything we do is tied into our vision of building vibrant communities, whilst providing businesses with the support and expertise they need to grow.
Here’s a few snapshots on who we are, however there are plenty more on our website:
- We’re the first Commercial Property business in the UK to sign up to become Carbon Net Zero by 2030 - setting the standard for our industry
- We have over 1.4bn in development, with projects including; EVO in Disbury - designed to be the UKs most sustainable workspace and ID Manchester - an innovation campus right in the heart of Manchester
Job purpose:
This role will cover our Bruntwood and town centre joint venture portfolios. This will cover a mixed portfolio of assets across Greater Manchester including our Carbon Net Zero new build commercial office property, EVO, as well as Valo - our JV development in Trafford where UA92 now call home. In addition, you will be managing Stretford Mall which is currently undergoing a major redevelopment and Stamford Quarter in Altrincham - both of which are shopping centres.
https://theev0building.co.uk/
https://www.stamfordquarter.com/
https://stretfordtowncentre.co.uk/
It’s certainly worth having a look at the buildings highlighted above to get a feel for the types of properties you’d be supporting.
What you’ll be doing:
- Take overall responsibility for the service charge expenditure for the buildings under your stewardship.
- Preparation of service charge budgets working closely with internal colleagues for approval.
- Monitoring of service charge expenditure in liaison with colleagues.
- Reconciling service charge budgets in accordance with the best practice.
- Regularly carrying out audit exercises to ensure the apportionment and scheduling of your service charge budgets is accurate.
- Monitor ad-hoc and non contractual spend ensuring that any expenditure by the client is necessary and proactively managed to minimise costs.
- Work closely with our Supplier & Relationship management team to understand all externally contracted costs and how they fit with asset management plans.
- Establish and nourish good working relationships with colleagues in the wider Bruntwood Group including those in Unify Energy and Cubic Works.
- Ensure any customer queries or questions are answered promptly and in line with high level of customer service.
- Create, manage and maintain building by building reports to ensure the business is fully briefed regarding expenditure and general operations within your buildings.
- Coordinate with other colleagues to ensure that all rating, insurance and other professional services are delivered.
- Lead the ‘Transition In’ or ‘Transition Out’ of any acquisitions or disposals ensuring that the risk is minimised at all times.
- Understanding the overall asset management requirements for the buildings and ensure that all activity aligns with these goals.
What’s important to us:
- Ideally MRICS qualified but this is not essential
- Experience in the commercial property market including management of large multi-let retail and leisure assets and mixed commercial and retail office buildings.
- Experience working with external clients in an asset management arena.
- Ability to bring market knowledge into day to day management as best practice.
- Experience of reporting and attending client meetings.
- Experience with due diligence, mobilisation and the transitioning of new assets or inversely disposal.
- Experience in creating and managing service charge budgets including multiple schedules ensuring apportionments are correctly set up.
- Experience in service charge analysis for buildings against industry benchmarks and advising clients on potential savings or service improvements.
- Understanding of Property Management Agreements and Service Level Agreements.
We really believe that if you’re brilliant to work with, you deserve brilliant things in return:
- Flexible hours either side of our core business hours of 10am-3pm.
- Agile working, up to 40% of your working week wherever it suits you or your role.
- 25 days holiday plus you get your Birthday off work - and if that’s not enough you can also buy & sell holidays too.
- 24 hours a year volunteer time - there are endless opportunities for you to get involved in supporting the causes that matter most to you.
- Sabbatical of up to 12 months so you can take a career break after five years with us.
- Free Healthcare cash plan for all colleagues, so you can claim back medical expenses like optical, dentist & physiotherapy. We also offer free private healthcare cover on an opt in basis too.
- Life assurance cover for all colleagues.
- Up to 8% matched pension scheme.
- Discounts & cashback at leading retailers.
- Enhanced maternity - 26 weeks fully paid leave.
- Interest free loans to pursue your passions and apply for up to £2,000 towards learning a new skill.
There’s more to discover on our website as well as all the pioneering developments and projects we have ongoing.
In addition to what to expect within the role and your benefits, it’s good to know that you’ll be working for a business that gives back - The Oglesby Charitable Trust has donated more than £25m since it started out in 2001. Supporting charities across Arts and Culture, Education, Environment, Medical Research and Social & Health Inequality.
Our ambition is to make Bruntwood a truly diverse and inclusive place to work, reflective of the communities we live and work in. To help us to achieve this we encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled people, and those who are neurodiverse. Join us and you’ll be part of our journey to creating something even better, for our customers and ourselves.
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