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My client is an established firm of solicitors based in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent specialising in a wide range of commercial work for owner-managed businesses and specialist private client work. Is recruiting for a Head of Commercial Property. We have been providing a first-class service to our clients since 2005. With more than 400 people including over 100 lawyers across offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent. Do you want to join a brilliant team and make a positive difference to our clients? Are you ambitious and motivated? Are you personable, conscientious, and well-organised? Do you want to be part of a vibrant growing business? Hybrid / working from home including provision of home office equipment Overview: As a head of the Commercial Property team, you will lead and support the growth and development of the team, as well as being actively involved in marketing the business and the department. You will motivate and supervise others, as well as running your own caseload. To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, commercially minded and have good people skills. Key Qualifications: Qualified solicitor or equivalent. 7 years post-qualification experience in commercial property. Key activities: Manage a varied caseload of commercial property cases, including leasehold and freehold transactions. Provide inspirational leadership to your people. Communicate within your people and across the rest of the business to develop a cohesive, positive team environment. Requires strong diplomacy skills to build a consensus. Able to articulate issues and make clear recommendations to the Board. Grow and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price. Assist and supervise your people. Use the financial and case management reporting to monitor, manage and predict to make sure the department is fully and adequately resourced to deliver a quality service, identifying where you need more resource, where you can allocate resource differently, and where you can reduce resource if appropriate, and do this in a timely way to make sure our client service is not negatively impacted. Technical advice. Develop, maintain and appropriately use your technical expertise and the expertise across your team to help find answers to questions. Assist the residential property team with more complicated or unusual transactions. Support your people through the continuous evolution of the property market and our ways of working; you will support them as our processes and offerings develop and evolve, helping articulate and understand the why of change and what good looks like. Client focus. Develop and foster a client-focussed culture where your team see the client experience as equally important to the legal expertise. To share knowledge and actively participate in the training and development of your people. Create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity criticise or ignore. You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement. Financial control. Be responsible for formulating the department budget and to monitor work in progress and ensuring credit control procedures are followed. To review your people's performance against financial targets. Work with our Finance team to forecast billing and workflow as accurately as possible. Key capabilities: Knowledgeable: Able to run and supervise others with a commercial property caseload. Commercial: Able to build and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price. To manage your people to deliver to financial targets. Team player: Able to build relationships with your team, across the business and across the group. Organised: Able to organise yourself and the others you are working with and supporting. Practical: Able to listen, to manage expectations and deliver results., Calm: Calm under pressure - people will come to you with what they consider to be a crisis. IT literate : Competent and comfortable with technology e.g. use of case management systems, Outlook, Excel and Word . What's in it for you: Competitive basic salary 25 days holiday (Including bank holidays) Referral bonus Pension plan Life insurance Employee Assistance Programme Hybrid / working from home including provision of home office equipment. Access to training academy courses If this sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you, do please send your CV to Julie O'Leary at PP Associates to view and call to discuss.
Role overview ID: 2024-5112 Entity: Vistry Region: Vistry South East Midlands Department: Commercial Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time Job Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Date Posted: 04.03.2024 We have a great opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team at Vistry South East Midlands, at our office in Enderby, Leicester. As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be responsible for being the commercial lead on a number of mixed tenure developments in the South East Midlands patch and have experience of successfully delivering major open market, affordable and contracting housing schemes. This is a senior role and the successful candidate will have worked in a similar level role for a main contractor or developer within the region. You must be proven in commercial and risk management, have a reputation for integrity, maturity, and sound business judgement; be totally comfortable managing trainee and assistant surveyors; possess the creativity, commercial expertise, and commitment to successfully play an important role within the commercial and site teams. Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you... Competitive basic salary and annual bonus Company car, car allowance or travel allowance Agile working possible (dependent on role) Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private Healthcare Competitive contributory pension scheme Life assurance 4 x your annual salary Share incentive schemes Employee rewards portal with many more benefits... In return, what we would like from you... Behave in line with our company values Integrity, Caring and Quality Extensive experience working at a similar level within a construction organisation. Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience. Strong team player, with the entrepreneurial ability to operate and excel in a changing on- site environment. Well-developed analytical, oral and presentation / communication skills. Degree qualified preferable. Professional membership of MCIOB or RICS preferable. Strong in-depth knowledge of groundworks, roads and sewers. Training of and understanding of COINs Training and understanding of 4p (viewpoint). Management of Assistant Surveyor / Trainee Surveyor. More about the Senior Quantity Surveyor role... Strive to optimise the profitability of the Contracts. Ensure that the Contracts achieve the optimum cashflow position. Completion and compliance with required contract documentation including Performance Bonds, Parent Company Guarantees and Warranties. Ensure that all contract documentation and sub-contract documentation is completed and stored centrally. Compliance with Commercial and Company procedures through the Business Management System. Presenting and agreeing the external valuation with the Client's Representative. Pricing and agreeing variations with the Client's Representative. Prepare and manage key and large risk subcontract accounts from inception to final accounts. Subcontract procurement strategy and implementation. Ensure the procurement of sub-contractors is in line with the Vistry Business Management System and that the packages cover the scope of the works. Check and ensure compliance and issuing of timely Payment and Pay less notices to Subcontractors. Preparing monthly CVR & VCA reports for presentation to the Business Unit Management. Monitoring risk and opportunity schedules and managing risk from Commencement to Completion. Contribute to management of life of site cost & revenue forecasts across multi-phase developments. As part of project team, help shape long term delivery strategy for project Provide input and cost and value engineering advice throughout the design life of the scheme and attend design team meetings. Managing and undertake the personal development reviews of associated surveying resources, including training. Ensure a proactive approach to dispute avoidance. Ensure company health and safety standards and procedures are followed throughout the team Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us... At Vistry Group, we build more than homes. We develop sustainable communities across all sectors of the UK housing market through our leading housing brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Delivered through Vistry Housebuilding, Countryside Partnerships and Vistry Works with the support of Vistry Services, our values of integrity, caring, and quality continue to shape all we do. We're proud that our UK Green Building Council membership, 2021 Large Housebuilder of the Year award and status as a UK top-five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating allows us to transform land into thriving spaces. We're also proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. From memories and communities to worthwhile careers, we're making Vistry. Benefits Agile Working Offers a flexible way of working. Annual Leave Enjoy 28 days' holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days. Pension with Legal & General Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available. Volunteer Days With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities. Why Vistry Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.