IT Business Partner

COMPANY, TEAM & ROLE OVERVIEW:
**THE FIRM**

Montagu Evans is an independent, market leading property consultancy. Headquartered in London with offices in Scotland and Manchester. Our work encompasses planning and development, specialist valuations and transactions across the United Kingdom.

We’re a group of people that are excellent individually and exceptional together. We’re people that care about people, not just bricks and mortar. We care about our legacy, we create spaces that people use to live, work, communicate and connect.

We’re a partnership and the people who run the business are empowered to create their own teams to exceed our client’s requests. This highly flexible and collaborative approach, tailoring the talent to the complexity of the work, has enabled us to develop an exceptional business that has spanned over a century.

We encourage an honest and straight forward approach to our work and relationships. We embrace individuality, whilst relying on working together and never accepting the status quo.

We give everyone the opportunity to be the best version of themselves. We trust and support each other. We recognise that our people are the heart of our success and only by identifying, supporting and promoting them will we be able to provide continued outstanding client service.

Together we are Montagu Evans.

**THE TEAM**

The Technology & Data team currently consists of 6 Montagu Evans staff, 2 onsite staff placed by our IT Managed Service partner and 1 onsite member seconded in from our Data insights/visualisation partner. The team support all colleagues within Montagu Evans.

The team is led by the Director of Technology & Data and the role is one of five direct reports.

MAIN DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES:
**MAIN DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Devise and deliver a training programme for Microsoft products such as (but not limited to) Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Forms, Bookings, Lists, OneNote & Stream.
- Support testing and deployment of new Microsoft technologies (i.e. CoPilot & Azure Blob storage) as well as ongoing upgrades of existing tools.
- Take on day to day management of MS licencing across the firm deferring to line manager for budget sign off
- management of licences deferring to line manager for budget sign off.
- arrange training delivery from software providers
- feedback business requirements/requests to software providers
- manage software providers (where appropriate) through service review meetings
- Configure and prepare reports for Senior Stakeholders within the business to demonstrate value being delivered.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATION:
**DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATION**

Demonstrate a track record and the ability to:

- build relationships and work well as part of a team.
- interact with executive level internal stakeholders & external partners.
- adapt to changing technology and work within a fast-paced environment.
- multi-task/prioritise working within a team structure and independently.
- prioritise and manage own workload in a demanding environment.
- excellent customer service skills with a helpful and responsive approach.
- Be independent, resourceful and possess keen ability to learn with excellent work ethic.
- Experience of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) sector is desirable.
- Strong track record of delivery regarding optimisation/efficiencies
- Strong IT skills
- Strong communication skills at all levels of the business
- Good Maths & English along with relevant higher-level education or equivalent
- Must be a current Microsoft Certified Trainer
- A flexible attitude towards working hours, some activities may need to be carried out outside normal business hours.