Head of Heritage

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Bidwells Full time

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Our firmly established **Heritage Consultancy** business are looking for an expert in the historic built environment ready to take on an exciting opportunity to **lead** it’s talented team into a new era.

This is a key leadership role within our business which provides a unique opportunity for someone to build on it’s diverse portfolio of clients and projects. In this role, you will be responsible for leading our team of passionate and talented Heritage Consultants in delivering projects throughout the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, Cambridge and beyond. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our clients' strategies for preserving and enhancing their real estate, finding creative and practical solutions that will push projects over the line.

Bidwells is one of the top 15 property consultancies in the UK. Since being established since 1839, we’ve retained many of our original clients. These include some of the best-known Colleges in Cambridge and Oxford and we are lucky enough to work with 44 of them

The Governments commitment to growing the Science and Tech sector brings enormous challenges to historic cities like Cambridge and Oxford. Being the leading property consultancy in the ARC enables us to be at the forefront of this market and these historic challenges give a plethora of exceptional opportunities in the Heritage team. Alongside the Governments commitment to Science and Tech innovation, Sustainability and Netcarbon Zero Targets are very high on everyone’s agenda. The university and colleges are adopting ambitions decarbonisation plans and we are helping them navigate the challenges of reaching net zero. Our new **Head of Heritage** will be in the middle of these discussions balancing the impact on internationally renowned heritage assets.

Whilst you will work closely with our building teams, our residential and commercial colleagues and our rural teams and the Estates they manage we will encourage you to the develop new clients in the areas that interest you.

We are looking for someone whose as passionate about the historic built environment as they are about our clients and our people. Key to your role will be leading the commercial success of the business and driving sustainable growth, supporting the attraction, development and retention of our people and collaborating with other leaders from across our firm to deliver our group strategy.

**About you**:

- Extensive experience working in the Historic Built Environment, specifically in a leadership role
- Passionate about the Historic Built Environment
- An effective an motivational leader who oozes empathy and enthusiasm
- A commercially minded professional
- An effective business developer

**Your package**:
We will pay you competitively and provide you with an excellent benefits package: Twenty Eight days holiday (increasing with length of service), your birthday off work, up to 8% contributory pension, health insurance, team profit based bonus scheme plus group profit, medicash scheme (money towards dental treatments, opticians and remedial therapies).



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