Job Description

Role

Commercial Asset Manager

Advert Closing:

Sunday 10th December 2023

Salary

\xc2\xa353,137 Per Annum

Location

Farringdon

Contract type

Permanent

Hours

35 hours per week

The Role

It is an exciting time for Southern Housing as we merge Optivo and Southern Housing Group, two companies who will be Stronger Together. Having worked with the same communities for decades, we have combined our work in our core communities to create a \xe2\x80\x9cbig but local\xe2\x80\x9d organisation.

Managing over 77,000 homes, Southern Housing is dedicated to delivering excellent services and improving our resilience. We are also keen to build new homes and grow our organisation.

Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they\xe2\x80\x99re proud to live. We\xe2\x80\x99re big and we\xe2\x80\x99re local. Residents are at the heart of our services, and we use our size to influence positive change in the areas where we operate.

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Asset Manager reporting to the Senior Commercial Asset Manager in this client-side role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the company\xe2\x80\x99s commercial property investment portfolio with over \xc2\xa360m AUM spread across London and the South East, primarily focussed on retail and office on the ground floor of mixed-use schemes.

This includes being responsible for day-to-day property and tenancy management, arrears collection, void management and lettings.

You will ensure rent reviews and lease renewals are performed on a timely manner at market levels. A key requirement is to ensure the commercial portfolio is well maintained, fully compliant and in a good state of repair. As well as ensuring Southern Housing is meetings its maintenance, and repair obligations, you will ensure tenants are meeting theirs.

You will make sure standalone office blocks are well managed, with a robust service charge regime in place for these.

You will model Southern Housing\xe2\x80\x99s HEART values, to both the team and the wider company. You will be passionate about delivering outstanding customer service.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll be doing \xe2\x80\xa6

• Manage commercial properties and tenancies to a high level
• Ensure commercial property data is accurate and up to date.
• Ensuring lease terms negotiated with tenants are at market rates and terms
• Ensure high level of commercial property arrears collection
• Perform periodic inspections of commercial property
• Ensure rent reviews and lease renewals are performed in a timely manner, achieving market level deals. Ensure appropriate agents are instructed for each deal
• Ensure properties are fully compliant with health and safety and sustainability legislation

We\xe2\x80\x99re offering\xe2\x80\xa6

• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy extra leave
• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with excellent defined contribution rates
• Flexible benefits to suit your needs
• Agile working where you can work from any of our locations and from home, so we\xe2\x80\x99ll provide you with the necessary equipment to enable you to do this
• Care for your wellbeing and ensuring a good work life balance
• \xe2\x80\xa6plus much more

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll need

• Ability to work effectively in partnership with executives, staff, customers and external stakeholders; with the ability to engage effectively at all levels and to present complex information in an accessible way

• Strong analytical skills.
• Proven experience of managing commercial property, including landlord and tenant liaison and arrears collection
• Effective at communicating both verbally and in writing with people at all levels.
• Excellent customer service skillset
• Thorough knowledge of commercial property management, best practice, regulation and legislation. Also knowledge of wider housing and property building safety and health and safety legislation

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We reserve the right to close this position early if we receive a vast amount of suitable candidates.

Southern Housing Group