Director - Building Surveying

Description

• Leading and managing Teams, including working with Directors and Associate Directors in managing resources and workload. Ensuring compliance with administrative requirements (appraisals, training, timesheets etc)
• Managing the commercial aspects of projects (e.g. scope of services/deliverables, invoices, payments, and debt management).
• Ensuring sufficient resources are made available to deliver services on our projects, including managing resource conflict resolution (with fellow directors).
• Briefing employees on relevant aspects of Gleeds business.
• Reviewing scope of appointments on a monthly basis to ensure services are being delivered in accordance with appointments
• Promoting all Gleeds professional services and brand Gleeds, including our digital offer.
• Actively identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the Business Unit’s activities.
• Managing service delivery for profit that meets established budgets
• Preparing bids for services.
• Agreeing fees and charges for potential services with Regional Director.
• Working harmoniously with other Senior Directors and Directors, assisting Regional Service Line Leads and Regional Director.
• Managing employees, focusing on retention and development.
• Resolving customer complaints.
• Formulating and managing strategies to deliver the business objectives.
• Managing and maintaining Customer relationships (i.e. Clients, business partners and other consultants). Ensuring a Customer Care plan is in place.
• Agreeing appointments / scope of services. Ensuring that appointments are in place prior to commencing service delivery.
• Developing and enhancing Gleeds Building Surveying capability.
• Ensuring that projects are managed in accordance with Gleeds processes and procedures (governance and controls).
• Delivering high quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our Customer’s requirements.

Requirements

• Demonstrable evidence of delivering top class services to Clients and managing Client relationships.
• Sound understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts.
• Demonstrate experience of leading high performance multi-disciplinary project delivery teams
• Extensive knowledge of construction technologies, sequences, methods and materials
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changing environments.
• Demonstrable experience of timely interfacing with clients and key stakeholders at the highest level.
• MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or
• Excellent knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies
• Ability to prepare first-class bids for services.
• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written.
• Experience managing multiple projects
• Excellent problem solving, negotiating skills, financial and numeracy management skills.
• Excellent commercial background, including familiarity with contract conditions and procedures and ability to administer contracts (as contract administrator, employer’s agent and/or project manager)
• Competent at negotiating sufficient fees to both complete services and generate required profit levels.
• Ability to work as part of and lead a regional team
• Demonstrable networking skills and having a strong professional network within the region and a solid understanding of the marketplace
• Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily.
• Extensive experience in public and private sector led developments delivering building surveying services on construction projects, of which 5 years were in a responsible leadership function in the management of professional teams and major construction projects or frameworks.

Benefits

• Opportunities to develop and grow your career
• Flexible working arrangements
• Generous holiday allowance plus option to purchase additional days through the holiday purchase scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Our global travel scholarship programme
• A contributory pension scheme

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance