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Director of Rating

Kingsley

The Role

Overview

Lead and grow regional & national rating team, delivering valuation services

Key Responsibilities

  • business planning
  • rating valuation

Tasks

-Contribute to the creation, implementation and delivery of a three-year Rating business plan. -Dealing with rating valuation across the North of England.

Requirements

  • client management
  • business rates
  • negotiation
  • leadership
  • project management
  • rating legislation

What You Bring

-High level client management and verbal communication skills -Extensive professional experience of working in business rates -Strong track record of business development and client relationship management -Excellent selling and negotiation skills -Professional experience of providing technical rating advice across varied sectors -Leadership and line management experience -Professional experience of advising major ‘blue chip’ clients and demonstrable ability to lead large complex client instructions -Excellent project management skills -High level business and report writing skills -High level of commercial awareness skills -Team leadership and line management skills -In-depth knowledge of Rating legislation and case law -Professional experience of taking Valuation Tribunal and ideally Upper Tribunal cases

Benefits

HIGHLY COMPETITIVE SALARY (PLUS: Car Allowance, Bonus & Excellent Benefits)

The Company

About Kingsley

-Headquartered in Liverpool since its founding, it blends industry insight with recruitment know‑how. -It matches professionals across surveying, property management, and construction roles. -While broadening into international, interim, and executive search, its core remains aligned to the built environment. -Its consultants support project portfolios in asset and property management, commercial, residential, and housing association sectors. -Kingsley often handles niche roles in engineering, construction, surveying, and town planning for blue‑chip and start‑up clients. -The firm streamlines talent discovery across surveying, built environment, and construction.

Sector Specialisms

Property

Technology

Executive Interim Recruitment

Mergers & Acquisitions

Software Development

Data Science

Cybersecurity

IT Project Management

Systems Administration

Network Engineering

Cloud Solutions Architecture

Database Administration

UX/UI Design

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

DevOps

Quality Assurance Testing

IT Support

Web Development/Design

Product Management

Executive Technology Leadership