Senior Surveyor/Associate Director

Job Title: Senior Surveyor/Associate Director – Commercial Property Management

Location: Leeds (hybrid working)

About the Team:

CBRE are looking for an exceptional surveyor to join the Northern Property Management Team. Based in Leeds you will be responsible for managing FRI and service charge properties across a variety of asset classes. This will include managing very high profile offices in central Leeds and industrial, office and retail properties throughout the North and Midlands.

The Yorkshire and Northeast Property Management team forms part of a wider Northern Property Management Team, having surveyors located in both Manchester and Liverpool. There are 17 fee earners in total. The Leeds Team are responsible for managing properties for a number of key clients throughout the region including CBRE Investment Management, NFUM, Sports Direct, MEPC , and Global Net Lease in addition to local based clients.

The local team comprises 6 fee earners, 2 graduate surveyors and an administrator. The team has ambitious plans to grow through existing and new clients. The team is friendly, sociable, and dynamic and offers several opportunities including:

• Interested and varied work across asset classes.
• Client facing role with the opportunities to lead client relationships and grow instructions.
• Structured training and career progression
• A strong internal support network.

The purpose of this role is to work predominantly on portfolio instructions, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of service and to work with other service lines to ensure a tailored and coordinated service.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the transition of client/properties in and out of CBRE management
• Responsibility for compliance relating to sites under their control, acting or escalating any issues relating to non-compliance
• Carry out property inspections
• Responsibility for taking the appropriate action in response to any legal notice received in relation to a managed property
• Responsibility for preparing data for client meetings
• Attending client meetings, ensure recording of minutes and carrying out of actions arising
• Reading of leases and ensuring accurate data is maintained on the property management system
• Ensure rent demands are raised accurately and on time
• Provide recommendations to clients to recover rent and other sums due under the lease terms
• Ensure client reports are prepared to the correct specifications and issued to clients in accordance with agreed timescales, subject to approval by line manager
• Ensure all tenant application fee invoices are raised and paid promptly
• Work with the on-site facilities teams to review and obtain approval of service charge budgets
• Review service charge cash flows and budgets subject to client requirements
• Approve service charge year end reconciliations in accordance with RICS guidelines / client instruction.
• Identify and progress opportunities for cross-selling activities
• Responsibility for arranging and chairing occupier meetings and occupier liaison as required
• Ensure recording of minutes of occupier meetings and 1-2-1 meetings are completed and all actions arising from the meeting are dealt with
• Take appropriate action for all forthcoming lease diary events.
• Identify opportunities for providing additional services to clients and provide appropriate recommendations.
• Review tenant applications and prepare client recommendations
• Explore opportunities for new business generation and be an efficient presenter

Key Skills/Knowledge

• Ideally RICS qualified although property management experience is considered more important
• Degree qualified in real estate
• Relevant work in property management in the UK market
• Constantly updating knowledge of legislation relating to property management
• Able to build and maintain client relationships and internal relationships with other service lines
• Use and grow knowledge of law relating to property management in order to make recommendations to the client
• Understand and grow knowledge of the clients’ investment objectives
• Be able to recognise opportunities for selling additional services to clients, including cross-selling
• Able to build and maintain tenant / customer relationships
• Be able to apply legal principles of tenant applications for consent and the processes to be followed
• Apply the principles of service charge management to ensure compliance with all regulatory and procedural requirements including the terms of the lease
• Understand credit control methods
• Able to use IT software such as Word, Excel and other databases
• Understand and use industry / CBRE specific IT applications
• Able to contribute to team and department business plans
• Able to work as part of a team, supporting other team members and recognising the work of others
• Build and maintain relationships with other parts of the wider CBRE service lines

Person Specification

• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate tasks efficiently ensuring all deadlines are met
• Maintains a positive attitude towards routine tasks
• Accurate and exceptional attention to detail
• Pro-active and enjoys working autonomously and as part of a wider team
• Confident and assertive where required
• Sociable and outgoing
• Flexible approach to work
• Understands and appreciates the importance of using discretion
• Team player who deals effectively with colleagues and clients

Working at CBRE

When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realize your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.

Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do—from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing.

At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills. To discover more about what it’s like to work at CBRE, visit Life at CBRE

About CBRE

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2023 revenue). The company has more than 130,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. For information about accommodations we can make during the recruitment process, please visit: https://www.cbre.co.uk/careers/accommodations