Estates Manager

Contract: Permanent

Recruitment Partner: [email protected]

About the role

Based in our Nottingham support office, the Estates Team operates as a valued consultant to the business, working particularly closely with the wider Property, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and Retail & Pharmacy Operation teams. We advise across a large, mature portfolio with significant opportunities to add and return value year-on-year.

There’s always a commercial opportunity to consider and it’s the mix of the industrial portfolio and retail & pharmacy operations that sets this role apart. You’ll need to balance location, the brands, asset configuration and operational costs to ultimately deliver best value and excellent outcomes.

We are now looking for an experienced Estates Manager to join the team. The successful candidate will have good all-round property experience, commercial acumen, a strong customer focus underpinned by a high level of drive and self-motivation to succeed in a fast paced, challenging environment. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have good experience of Development Appraisals, light industrial real estate and a good understanding on the planning process.

Key responsibilities:

As a member of the Estates Team you will deliver great results by:

• Being point of contact in the business co-ordinating various work streams across the Boots commercial property estate
• Supplier management of external advisors and specialists
• Leading negotiations, with legal support where necessary, against third parties to secure the best commercial terms
• Bringing forward business cases for approval that change the occupation of property for the commercial sides of the business – managing the end-to-end approval process
• Dealing with Lease Advisory and Estate Management issues as they arise for the non-retail portfolio.

What you’ll need to have

• Strong communication skills to operate as a credible expert experienced in dealing with very senior stakeholders
• Self-motivated and results driven to prioritise and meet deadlines with a high level of integrity, trust and the ability to act autonomously.
• You’ll have a degree in Estate Management and will be a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The best candidate will have the following experience:
• Able to work collaboratively as part of a team of professionals to deliver business objectives.
• Commercially aware, being analytical and use financial knowledge to bring an innovative approach to property solutions
• Good communicator, able to build effective relationships within the business and the external market
• Results focussed to meet budget requirements with a high level of integrity and trust
• A good understanding of the development process and the impact of planning upon it
• Experience with industrial (non-retail) real estate

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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