Asset Strategy Lead

Job Description

Reed Talent Solutions are currently working with a West Yorkshire based Local Authority to recruit a Strategic Partnership Lead for Assets & Estates. The post-holder will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Asset Strategy team and theDisposals, Acquisitions and Commercial teams ensuring effective and efficient strategic and operational day to day management of the services provided by these teams.Role Information

• Location: Huddersfield
• Flexible Remote-working
• 7 month contract with potential to extend
• LTD Daily Rate: £550 (Inside IR35)

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the development and implementation of the Council’s Asset Strategy.
• Providing strategic oversight of the Council’s office accommodation portfolio ensuring that it is fit for purpose in a post COVID world, is aligned with place-based working, delivers transformational change through the Way We Work programme and is closelyaligned to the work of the Corporate Facility Management (FM) team who manage the portfolio on a day-to-day operational basis.
• Ensuring that there is a periodic, systematic review of all Council owned property and land assets to ensure that our extensive portfolios are used efficiently and effectively to support service delivery.
• Liaising with and supporting the work of the Corporate Facilities Management Service to support their linked delivery of FM services to Council property and land.
• Working with all Council Services to ensure that their needs and outcomes are reflected in the Council’s Asset Strategy and their needs are deliverable using the Council’s land and property assets.
• Oversight of the Community Asset Transfer (CAT) process, ensuring that applications for transfer are robustly assessed in a timely manner in line with the Council’s procedures and that decisions are taken transparently through cabinet if required.
• Management of the Assets of Community Value process in line with Government legislation.
• Strategic oversight of the Council’s extensive Commercial portfolio of land and property including significant retail and office assets, ensuring that the commercial portfolio is modernised, performs well, delivers the financial return required by the Counciland contributes strongly to the Council’s key strategic outcomes.
• Strategic Leadership of the Service’s input into key Council regeneration projects including the Cultural Heart, Station to Stadium and the Huddersfield and Dewsbury Blueprints, plus major land and property acquisitions and disposals that help deliver theCouncil’s ambitions.
• Oversight of the Disposals and Acquisitions process ensuring that Council procedures and legislative requirements are adhered to, that any capital receipt targets are achieved, and the overall Service is performed in a timely manner.

Essential Criteria

• Degree qualification or equivalent Essential RICS qualification and membership Desirable Significant experience within a local authority or similarly complex organisation in a middle/senior management position
• Proven track record of service delivery to agreed levels of performance and standards Essential Experience of managing organisational change
• Experience of managing customer expectations
• Team player style of approach, ready to take on any challenge
• Experience of managing significant budgets.
• Demonstrable extensive knowledge / experience of leading teams delivering an asset and/or estates type function.
• Ability to lead, manage and develop large multi-disciplinary teams and to provide strategic leadership through a matrix structure
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills and the ability to build relationships at a political, senior and management level and negotiate complex issues.
• Effective development, management and motivation of staff assigned to projects or programmes of work
• Up to date knowledge of external issues (including legislative and statutory etc..) affecting areas of responsibility Essential