Senior Estate Strategy Manager

NHS Property Services have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Estate Strategy Manager to join our organisation. This is permanent role with a salary of between £60,000 - £72,956, Car Allowance & Bonus. The role will attract 27 days holiday. **The main purpose of the role**: - To support the short and longer-term development of our own property portfolio strategy by engaging with our customers, tenants, occupiers, and other stakeholders, at a senior level to drive the efficient and effective use of our part of the NHS estate. - The estate strategy team will seek to understand national and local healthcare and workforce policy and priorities, to support assessment of options around NHSPS property portfolio to ensure that the estate is occupied on an optimal basis, correctly specifiedto support customer needs, delivers best value, and is fit for purpose to support patient and clinician needs. - Recommendations will drive decision making and gain commitment from stakeholders around positioning of the properties, unlocking future development or disposal opportunities for surplus sites. The role requires strong property, business, political and financial acumen to provide pragmatic solutions to deliver savings and estate optimisation, whilst balancing effectively the interests of NHSPS and the needs of the wider health and social care system.You will need to develop an excellent understanding of the potential of the NHSPS portfolio in your geographic/functional area, and to help drive efficiencies to optimise the portfolio, through property consolidation, enabling disposals, driving value fromlease events and where relevant the "right-sizing" of new developments. Managers play an important role at NHSPS. They are the conduit between senior managers and leaders and the colleagues across the business who deliver for our customers and who keep the business running smoothly. Their teams are made up of specialists andteam contributors, and typically they are responsible for the delivery of defined elements of the strategy and operating plans. Managers frequently share the same professional and technical backgrounds as their teams, and their role is to manage and coach their teams to deliver in line with targets and performance standards. **The focus of the Senior Estate Strategy Manager**: - To manage the formulationand delivery, review, and implementation of portfolio strategies on a geographic or customer driven or similar basis. - Work with our customers, tenants, occupiers, and the Investment Management team to develop and deliver a strategy for a pipeline of disposal opportunities - Work with our customers and the Development Team to generate new property development opportunities and the Town Planning Team to optimise the potential use of existing or surplus health care properties. - Undertake options assessments to develop location, or site-specific strategies to drive planning for lease events, the use of vacant and sessional space policies. - Working on the national office strategy, to ensure consistent occupational metrics are applied, enable consolidation/disposals, and value to be extracted from lease events across a large programme with significant financial opportunity over the next fiveyears - Working with occupiers to help them obtain relevant business case approvals to commit to carry through the implementation of those schemes aligning with NHSPS estate strategy - Responsible for identifying and delivering opportunities for rationalisation, investment, and disinvestment in our portfolio; to rationalise our properties to meet our 3-year strategic business plan - The estate strategyteam will be responsible for developing projects up until the point of agreed business cases (customer) and Initiative Approval Process (IAP) (Internal), at which point the projects will be handed over to other NHS PS teams either withinAsset Management or Construction, dependent upon the project