Associate Director

**Our Opportunity**:
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Are you an ambitious and knowledgeable Senior/Principal/Associate Building Surveyor seeking a new challenge in a leadership role?

Are you looking for a role within a national, multi-disciplinary consultancy, that can offer progression and autonomy?

Due to continued and sustained expansion of our Building Surveying discipline, we are looking to appoint an Associate Director in Leeds. This role will see you delivering exciting projects across a range of sectors to include heritage, education, healthcare, commercial, central government, defence and retail. You will work with a collaborative, positive team in Leeds and the wider region, helping to deliver fantastic service to an ever-growing, diverse client base.

You will play a pivotal role as a senior leader in the company, helping us shape our emerging talent within the discipline and undertaking various business development activities.
- With a rich 160 + year history working across the UK market, Pick Everard are proud to offer a range of enhanced benefits, competitive salary and a positive working culture that prioritises its people. In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead and shape the future of the business, and make a real impact within a growing and evolving business.
- With us you can work with like-minded individuals to ensure our continued success, with a national, collaborative way of thinking that extends beyond disciplines and throughout the practice.
- **Principal responsibilities**:

- Provides project leadership and direction on complex projects and programmes - monitors progress and expenditure of all team projects.
- Manages a team of surveyors and support resources or area of specific technical delivery, including pastoral care and technical development of junior staff.
- Contributes to achieving business plan targets through effective management and development of existing and new client accounts.
- Prepares and oversees designs and reports.
- Lead on team business development activities including bidding and client development and contribute to national bids as required.
- Actively contribute to the Discipline Business Plan and strategic / sector specific business objectives of the wider Building Surveying team
- Undertakes client management or sector bidding responsibility on significant client / sector areas, providing focus for client or sector development.
- Deputises, supports, and reports to Directors and National Director within discipline.

**About You**:
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As the Associate Director for Building Surveying, you will forward-thinking, commercially aware, and driven to enhancing your own and Pick Everard's successes.

This role will suit an experienced Principal or Associate Building Surveyor, looking to make their next career move. Alternatively, an Associate Director looking for a new opportunity. You will have demonstrable knowledge of working across a range of sectors in a consultancy environment, and real passion and drive to support us in continuing to deliver excellence for a prestigious range of clients.

**Key requirements**:

- Chartered Surveyor with considerable experience in relevant position, including team management.
- RICS or MCIOB qualified. Undertaking relevant CPD activities
- Industry knowledge across a variety of sectors
- Superior level of technical knowledge and strong in business development skills
- Strong bid writing and presentation skills to clients
- Ability to control day to day programming and planning of projects
- Ability to manage, monitor and control workload and resource allocation
- Ability to monitor progress and expenditure of projects
- Knowledge of conducting legal/expert witness work

**About Us**:
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At Pick Everard, we work together to make the extraordinary a reality. We are looking for exceptional new talent to be a part of our journey as we move forward through our ambitious five-year Business Plan.

We are an independent award-winning property and construction consultancy firm, operating within the industry, providing complete integrated service delivery to help our clients deliver better solutions across real estate, infrastructure and the natural environment.

We are at the forefront of the industry and enjoy a culture that is centered around being creative, professional, compassionate, client-oriented and fun.

Our recent successes include:

- Listed as an NCE100 Consultancy and AJ100 Practice
- Named a Top 150 Consultancy by Building Magazine
- Recognised as a leading Financial Times Consultancy
- Winners of the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACE) Awards, Best Business Performance of the Year - Large Consultancy
- Winners at the RICS Awards - Infrastructure category
- An Investors in People and Investors in Excellence accredited business
- Winners at the Enterprising Women Awards

Through our remarkable history we have already established the sound principles of success and we have the vision and ambition to be even better, as we