Senior Strategy Manager

Job Description

NHS Property Services have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Strategy Manager to join our organisation, based around the Birmingham area of West Midlands. This is permanent role with a salary of between £60,000 - £72,956, Car Allowance & Bonus. The rolewill attract 27 days holiday.This role is mainly home based, with occasional site visits required as per business requirements. Working hours are Monday to Friday, 0900-1730, with some flexibility where agreed.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.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 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

This role will require you to demonstrate the following Experience, Capabilities and Knowledge:

• Experience of line management in a busy, customer focused business
• Experience of driving improvements to enable efficiency
• Experience of delivering change
• Track record of success in professional area
• Experience of customer relationship management
• Experience of working in partnership with public-private organisations for project delivery
• Professional/technical know how
• Commercial and financial acumen
• Relevant legislative/regulatory frameworks
• Broad understanding of modern people practices
• Understanding of Primary Care Policy in the NHS
• Excellent knowledge of property strategies and strategic asset management across a broad portfolio of properties
• Knowledge of working in a complex political environment
• Working knowledge of negotiating headleases, subleases and property transactions
• Planning and delivery/implementation skills
• Tracking and reporting KPIs
• Data-driven decision making
• Budget management
• NHSPS engage and enable leadership behaviours
• Stakeholder management
• Continuous improvement
• Customer focus
• People management and coaching skills
• Colleague engagement/wellbeing
• Taking personal accountability
• Degree level in estate management or a related discipline with relevant professional experience
• Member of a professional estates body for example RICS, RTPI, RIBA