About us

The Royal Over- Seas league (ROSL) is a unique not for profit members organisation based in the heart of London. Since 1910 the ROSL has embraced a multi – cultural membership bringing people together from around the world to meet, socialise and foster an interest in the Commonwealth. Our club house is Grade1 listed and provides a home away from home for our members.

Overview

We are seeking to appoint a Head of Estates and Projects, a member of the ROSL Senior Management Team reporting directly to the Director General / CEO. This is an exciting new vacancy that will underpin the delivery of day to day planned preventative maintenance as well as projects to ensure statutory compliance and the highest standards of presentation and comfort for our members and users of the clubhouse. The post holder will plan and oversee refurbishment projects, health and safety / compliance and grounds maintenance working with the wider operations, events, functions and catering teams.

About you

The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in the leadership of both in-house & contracted teams, across all aspects of planned and reactive maintenance, including minor works and renewals. A proven track record in the management of a similar 'Technical Client' function ideally with experience of working in the conservation of Listed buildings.

You will be a strong communicator with extensive experience in leading and managing projects. Change management and business transformation experience in a similar collaborative environment is essential. This post will suit professionals who enjoy taking full day to day operational responsibility in addition to fully participating in long-term planning. The successful candidate will ideally have a relevant built environment / engineering qualification and knowledge of compliance standards and regulations.

How to apply

For further information or a confidential discussion please contact our advisor Robbie Hodder (Robbie. Hodder@mrgpeople.co.uk) at The Management Recruitment Group or alternatively 020 8892 0115. The Management Recruitment Group (MRG) has been exclusively retained for this appointment. All direct and third party applications will be forwarded to MRG.

About Us

We understand student life. In fact, we have over 25 years’ experience of providing a great choice of safe, clean and contemporary student accommodation. Since building our first purpose-built student village in the early 1990s, we have always believed that the best product, sensible prices, in the best locations will always succeed. It is a simple formula that continues to work.

We are a family run business and are proud to have stayed true to our family roots and hands-on ethos. We currently own and manage a portfolio of over 5,000 beds, across 9 cities, with an exciting development pipeline for the next five years.

Overview

Reporting to the Head of Operations, the Regional Operations Manager will be responsible for providing inspirational leadership and motivation to our teams across the South, to ensure the effective provision of world class residences to our students. You will be managing the day-to-day operational delivery; and will also play a pivotal role in achieving our strategic aim of being a world leading provider of student accommodation.

You will be the key interface with our university partners, ensuring that our relationship continues to flourish and our properties are integrated to the university community.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in leading operational teams in a consumer led environment (student accommodation, universities, hotels, apartments etc.) and on a comparable scale. A proven track record of mobilising new schemes and delivering performance improvement. A high level of commercial acumen is essential, including experience of budget management and setting and achieving financial targets.

To Apply

For a confidential discussion and/or full job details please contact our advisors Charlotte MacGregor (Charlotte.MacGregor@mrgpeople.co.uk) or Hayley Mintern (hayley.mintern@mrgpeople.co.uk) of The Management Recruitment Group on 020 8892 0115.

Application is via CV and covering letter.

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for an experienced Finance Director to join a fantastic team within Taylor Wimpey, the Home Builder of choice. Working with the communities where we build and for the customers who aspire to purchase their homes.

Leading the finance function for the region, you will take over an efficient and effective Finance team. The East Midlands region of Taylor Wimpey will produce c650 units this year, and the department consists of a Finance Manager, and 5 accounts clerks and controllers.

The incumbent Finance Director is retiring, and we are looking for an experienced residential Finance Director to take over the running of this talented team. Your management focus will be on getting the best out of your team, taking a good team and making them better with a fresh impetus and energy.

As the Managing Directors right-hand, and effectively being their number two, you will qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA, and will preferably be someone with Housebuilding industry experience. This role requires someone with the confidence, knowledge, and ability to challenge their fellow directors in board level meetings, acting as another set of critical eyes, seeing things that aren’t right, and questioning in the right way so that mistakes are avoided, or things are not hidden. Sometimes hundreds of thousands of pounds can be won or lost on these meetings and the Finance Director’s ability to critically challenge what they are being told is essential.

Key Responsibilities: -

Catalysing optimal business performance

• Review and challenge new business from key operational and performance perspectives, in conjunction with the BUMT. Provide financial oversight and final recommendation which considers all key business aspects including JVs, to the MD.
• Lead the business planning process. Review and challenge operational assumptions with the BUMT before critical decisions are taken, and for inclusion in plans and forecasts. Provide accurate and insightful financial information to support creation and articulation of the business plan including JVs.
• Challenge and encourage the business unit to optimise value from the landbank, delivering the anticipated financial performance, but maintaining the Group’s customer centric ethos.

A businesses strategist

• Together with the MD, lead the development of the BU business strategy including JVs, in conjunction with the wider BUMT. Support the strategy with appropriate and tailored financial analysis.

A financial steward

• Work to protect the assets of the business, ensure compliance with financial regulation and ensure appropriate care and diligence is taken in the corporate governance of the region.
• Provide critical oversight of the core finance outputs and processes operated by the Senior Finance Manager and team.
• Provide overview to ensure robust financial processes and controls are consistently maintained.
• Work with the BUMT to actively identify business risks, driving possible mitigating solutions well in advance of potential risks crystallising. Horizon-scan for potential opportunities for the business to deliver, to help shape the future of the business.

An expert finance operator

• Create a team of suitably qualified and experienced finance staff, and develop both technical and soft skills in the team.
• Drive the attraction and retention of key talent within the Finance function through a positive and engaging approach.

Leadership responsibilities

• Partnering the MD on all new business decisions, including land acquisitions. Review all aspects of the scheme with the management team, critically assessing if the venture is the best use of capital, in line with strategy and the Taylor Wimpey ethos.
• Sign off the financial models, having considered financing options and cash flows, timescales, tax implications and accounting implications. Write the final recommendation to the MD which considers all aspects of the deal, including technical, commercial, sales, as well as finance elements.
• Obtain a true understanding of costs and risks for each site, drawing on knowledge from regular site visits. With this background, provide active review and challenge of the costs incurred to date/ cost to complete projections for each site (Cost Value Reconciliations) prepared by the Commercial team). Attend P&L meetings, and, challenge whether cost excesses/savings are expected and should be recognised. Look for trends in production differences, necessary fixes and expected cost changes.
• Working with the Production and Sales Directors, ensure the sequence of site delivery considers the appropriate risk factors

Key finance accountabilities and responsibilities

• Drive discussion at the management team board, by presenting analysis, insight and interpretation of performance against business plan. Draw out the operational deliverables needed to allow the business to meet targets and optimise value.
• Specify both business performance and financial measures, aimed at monitoring the drivers of performance. Interpret data and identify trends, making recommendations that aim to deliver an improved result. Lead frequent management team discussion, incorporating whether action should be taken.
• Lead a rigorous discussion with the management team board around site-specific and strategic risks and opportunities facing the business.
• Lead the forecasting process for the business, through continuous engagement with the management team. Review the operational assumptions with the management team, ensuring decisions drive optimal business value and are realistic.

What’s in it for you?

This role represents a huge opportunity for you to make a big difference in the business, to bring a fresh perspective, and to energise your team. When putting budgets together we are looking for someone who can find that fine balancing point between the budget being a challenge, whilst at the same time being achievable. You must be detail focussed as ‘near enough’ is not good enough. You must also be cost driven, asking what are the cost saving opportunities? Can you implement any change of process? Are you doubling up anywhere?

With a drive and determination to succeed, the ideal candidate will have a proven track record at Director level in the housebuilding industry, adding their experience to a strong, exciting, and energised regional board team.

The post offers a package level which will ensure Taylor Wimpey are able to attract industry leading professionals. In addition to basic salary Taylor Wimpey offer a generous benefits package which includes: Up to 75% Bonus, Generous Pension Scheme, Long Term Incentive Plan reward scheme, Share Save Scheme, Health Cover

So what’s next?

Please apply below or for further information, please contact Nick Frost via email on nick.frost@mrgpeople.co.uk The Management Recruitment Group are Taylor Wimpey's retained recruitment partner for this position. Any direct applications or third party CV's will be forwarded to MRG.

If you are seeking a career move but this position is not right for you please browse the other vacancies on our website. We are specialists in Residential recruitment and have a range of posts available. We also welcome speculative applications.

Keele University is renowned for its exciting approach to higher education, innovative research, beautiful campus, strong community spirit and excellent student experience. With a turnover in excess of £150 million, over 10,000 students and a total staff of approximately 2000, the University provides high quality teaching across a wide range of academic and vocational subjects and promotes world-class research. Further information can be found at http://www.keele.ac.uk.

Keele has embarked on an ambitious capital development programme that will see investment of over £350m into the University Estate over the next 5-10 years. Due to the scale and complexity of the capital programme the University is seeking to make the appointment of a Project Manager to strengthen the Projects team within the Estates and Development Directorate.

The Project Manager will lead a range of estate development projects including refurbishment, alteration, fit-out and new build schemes ranging in value from £100k to £10m. The postholder will enjoy a great deal of variety, with projects across teaching and research facilities, commercial workspace and hospitality space, public realm, sports facilities and residential accommodation on buildings varying from the heritage to state-of-the-art.

The successful candidate will possess significant experience of leading technically complex estate development projects in a client side or client’s consultant project management role. You will have a high degree of commercial acumen, with the ability to monitor and report on development progress from both a design, programme and contractual perspective.

It is essential that the successful candidate possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work successfully with a diverse range of stakeholders across a large, complex organisation. Experience of having worked on major capital projects in the education, healthcare, science, commercial and/or student accommodation development schemes would be particularly advantageous.

Keele University values equality and diversity across our workforce and to ensuring our staff community is reflective of the diversity of our student population. In support of these commitments the University welcomes applications from individuals of Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds for all roles.

For full post details please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/vacancies

For a confidential discussion and/or the full briefing particulars, please contact our retained advisors Ben Duffill (ben.duffill@mrgpeople.co.uk) and Nick Coppard (nicholas.coppard@mrgpeople.co.uk) at The Management Recruitment Group on 0203 962 9900. Applications should consist of a CV and covering letter and should be sent to ben.duffill@mrgpeople.co.uk.

Closing date for applications: 3^rd March 2019

Interviews will be held on: w.c. 18^th March 2019

Post reference: KU00000

Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity.

See job description for further details.

City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location. The University attracts around 19,500 students (35% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

City has made signi?cant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university: it has recently agreed a new Vision & Strategy 2026.

The University has 26 buildings of mainly freehold tenure, amounting to around 113,000 square metres of space, with a diverse estate portfolio ranging from grade-listed buildings to new state-of-the-art facilities.

Reporting to the Director of Property & Facilities, the Head of Facilities Services will lead provision of high quality, effective and value for money facilities services, including Security, Portering, Post, Cleaning, Catering, Landscaping and any other activities required to support the university’s operations across the estate. Operating at both a strategic and operational level, the postholder will lead and motivate a large scale in-house team of facilities services professionals as well as significant external contracted services and associated budgets.

The successful candidate will possess a proven track record leading facilities services provision across a large-scale, multi-building estate portfolio. You will have experience of leading facilities functions across a broad range of services lines and will be adept at leading an in-house team of facilities services professionals as well as the effective management of outsourced facilities contracts.

In this customer focused role it is essential at the postholder has excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and is proactive, resilient and adaptable.

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

For a confidential discussion and/or full details please contact our advisor Michael Hewlett of The Management Recruitment Group.

Applications should consist of a CV and covering letter.

Closing date for applications: 24^th February 2019

Interviews are scheduled for: 12^th March 2019

Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity

Academic excellence for business and the professions

Cognita is a private schools group which owns and operates schools globally. Launched in the UK in 2004, we are an extraordinary family of diverse yet connected schools. We share one common purpose: to create an inspiring world of education that builds self-belief and empowers individuals to succeed. With some 70 schools in Europe, Latin America and Asia, we employ 7,000 teaching and support staff in the care and education of more than 40,000 students.

Cognita’s Operations Department is responsible for overseeing and delivering all UK capital development projects and programmes of work, , managing the UK acquisitions and disposals, Property and Asset Management, Maintenance, and Services Management (including catering, cleaning and transport).

Reporting to the Operations Director, the incumbent will provide strategic and commercial leadership on all cost management, programme & planning, procurement and contractual matters to support the capital investment strategy. You will provide a professional support service to all aspects of the Operations Department in the delivery of its services related to all business units across the UK school’s portfolio including whole life cycle costing, capital projects, refurbishments and maintenance works.

The successful candidate will possess relevant experience in a quantity surveying, cost management or a commercial leadership role in the construction and property sector. With the formulation of investment across their portfolio it is vital that the programming of projects, forecasting and management of costs and expenditure is exemplary and that procurement methods provide maximum value for money.

You will have experience of cost reporting and providing assurance on projects and programmes from a cost, contract and risk perspective and will relish the challenge of achieving value across a broad range of development and estates management activities.

Cognita offers excellent benefits including private healthcare, flexible working, additional Christmas holiday, professional subscriptions and a commitment to your continuing your personal development along with a fee discount scheme.

For a confidential discussion and/or the Candidate Brochure, please contact our retained advisors Ben Duffill (ben.duffill@mrgpeople.co.uk) or Nick Coppard (nicholas.coppard@mrgpeople.co.uk) of the Management Recruitment Group on 0203 962 9900. Applications should consist of a CV and Covering Letter and should be sent to nicholas.coppard@mrgpeople.co.uk.

Closing date: Sunday 3^rd March 2019

“Cognita Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.”

Head of Maintenance

c.£75,000 per annum plus substantial benefits package

Consistently rated amongst the world's best universities, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Imperial has one of the largest and most diverse university estate portfolios in the country, with over 500,000 sq.m of space.

Based at South Kensington, our Estates Facilities Division is responsible for the management of the College’s land and buildings. Our portfolio spans a multi-site network, which includes South Kensington, White City, Hospital Sites (Hammersmith, Charing Cross, St Mary’s, Chelsea and Westminster and Brompton) Halls of Residences and our postgraduate centre for ecology in Ascot. Working across our diverse and technically demanding estate portfolio, the Head of Maintenance will be responsible for the management and execution of all Maintenance. (M&E Infrastructure and Building Fabric services), encompassing c.64 staff (8 direct reports) with an annual Operating budget of c.£13m and Capital budget of c.£6m.

The successful candidate will possess extensive experience in the leadership of large in-house & contracted teams, across all aspects of planned and reactive maintenance, including minor works and renewals. A proven track record in the management of a similar 'Technical Client' function, across a comparable large and multi-site estate, is essential.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are prerequisite traits, as is the ability to work in a collaborative and customer focused manner, across a large, complex and multi-faceted organisation. You will possess excellent technical skills with a recognised professional engineering/building services qualification and corporate membership of a relevant body. This role will suit a professional with experience across diverse estates, who is adept in delivering ‘best in class’ services in similar consumer led environments.

Imperial Managers lead by example.

Committed to equality and valuing diversity. We are also an Athena Bronze SWAN Award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a Two Ticks Employer.

Closing date for applications is Sunday 3^rd March 2019.

For a confidential discussion and/or more information please contact our advisor Michael Hewlett of The Management Recruitment Group (michael.hewlett@mrgpeople.co.uk) or 020 8892 0115. To apply for the post please send a CV and covering letter to michael.hewlett@mrgpeople.co.uk The Management Recruitment Group (MRG) has been exclusively retained for this appointment. All direct and third-party applications will be forwarded to them.

Essentia Trading Limited (ETL) is a unique consultancy specialising in supporting client across the Healthcare, Science and Education sectors to improve their efficiency and effectiveness through asset and digitally-led transformation projects and programmes. They work internationally, offering services from Healthcare Planning, Property, Sustainability and Capital Development working on a range of commissions from one-off reviews through to large scale multi- disciplinary programmes.

Due to continued growth and an ambitious business strategy, the Programme Management team is seeking to appoint an ambitious and driven programme management professional at Associate level. As part of the programme management leadership team, the incoming individual will work with clients, to offer strategic support to transformational programmes, involving complex asset development and business integration. In addition, you will be responsible for managing the P&L of programmes as well as working with the Director and other Associates to achieve business plan targets.

The successful individual will have a track record in programme management whether consultancy or in-house. Candidates with a clinical or research background will be welcomed. You will have the opportunity to progress your career whilst working for a business that is focused on delivering the best service to their clients as well as joining a growing business. As part of the role, you will be expected to develop both existing and new clients and play an integral part in the continued growth of the business.

ETL has seen rapid growth since its inception in 2013, owing to the exceptional track record within the market. Reporting directly the Director of Programme Management, the appointment offers clear career progression and immediate inclusion as a senior member of the team. ETL allows their team to work in a proactive environment, where you are encouraged to progress within your career but also play an active role in the growth of the business.

Closing date: Sunday 24^th February 2019

1^st stage interviews: w/c 11^th March 2019

For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact Melanie Pye on 07530 734 568 or melanie.pye@mrgpeople.co.uk.

Steer the strategic direction of estates & facilities, creating a culture of exceptional service delivery focused on enhancing the student experience. Be part of an ambitious senior management team with aspiring plans for the future.

Creativity has always been the hallmark of Goldsmiths. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive, and ideas are allowed to grow. Our courses and research activities span the arts, humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, computing, business and management across 18 academic departments.

The QS World Rankings place us in the top five UK Universities for Art & Design and Communication & Media Studies. Goldsmiths is also in the UK’s top 25 for the quality of our research, according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014 (based on research quality scores in the Times Higher Education subject rankings).

Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Director of Estates and Facilities will be responsible for the delivery of a customer centred estates and facilities management service that play an integral role in supporting the University’s 2018 – 2023 strategic plan. You will take full responsibility for the development and management of the University’s Physical Environment and will inspire and manage our diverse team. The department spans the areas of capital development, estates operations, facilities management, commercial services and health and safety in addition to all elements of energy/sustainability.

We are seeking an exceptional leader with a proven track record of developing and implementing property strategies across comparably large scale, diverse and technically complex portfolios. Positive, driven and a natural collaborator, you will possess excellent communication skills and commercial acumen with the intellectual confidence to succeed in a collegiate and collaborative environment.

The candidate brief can be viewed at https://online.flippingbook.com/view/413691/
Closing date for applications is Sunday 17th February 2019.

To apply and/or to arrange a confidential briefing discussion, please contact our retained advisors Michael Hewlett (michael.hewlett@mrgpeople.co.uk ) or Ben Duffill (ben.duffill@mrgpeople.co.uk) of The Management Recruitment Group on 020 8892 0115.