Estates Manager Resorts
Estates Manager Resorts
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- East Suffolk Council Melton Suffolk IP12 1RT or Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0EQ
- per annum
- 37 hours per week
- Full Time Flexible working and Agile working arrangements
- Permanent
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work and a great place to make a real difference to peoples lives delivering vital services to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Property and Place Team as Estates Manager Resorts. The successful candidate will be passionate about managing commercial property assets and delivering outstanding services in a vibrant and diverse environment. They will have experience in leading a team of professionals across different sectors and functions.
About the organisation and area
East Suffolk is an exciting place to work and live with excellent transport links combining beautiful countryside rugged coastline awardwinning beaches and delightful market towns.
The East Suffolk Council team play a critical role in ensuring that everyone across the district have vibrant and sustainable communities in which local people and businesses can thrive. The team are working on a diverse range of exciting and innovative projects including bringing disused town centre shops back into life by reconfiguring them for long term and sustainable use delivering new seafront leisure schemes to support a growing tourism economy and collaborating with Coastal Management teams as an enabler of vital flood defence works.
Your role
East Suffolk Council have around 3000 assets that they manage 500 of which are nonhousing buildings. The portfolio is varied and includes; Offices Town Halls Depots Industrial Units Leisure Centres Cafes and Kiosks Beach Huts and Retail. East Suffolk Councils property team comprises over 40 property professionals who are responsible for helping deliver over a third of the councils income.
Resort related assets such as beach huts and caravan sites generate revenue for the council in excess of 2m with significant potential to grow. We are looking for an Estates Manager to provide strategic leadership for this part of the portfolio.. You will also be responsible for managing a team including Southwold Harbour/Caravan Site Manager Yacht Station Manager Resorts Manager and their respective teams.
As the Estates Manager you will oversee all estates management duties including landlord and tenant red book valuations new investment and development opportunities acquisitions and disposals. Youll be working closely with the Head of Property and Place to deliver on a range of exciting and innovative projects and work programmes across the portfolio in a timely fashion and to budget.
What you will need
As the Estates Manager Resorts you will need to have:
- A relevant degree or equivalent qualification in real estate or a related discipline
- A professional membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent
- Proven experience as an Asset or Estates Manager or similar role in the public or private sector
- Expert knowledge of Landlord and Tenant legislation and experience in negotiating rent reviews lease/licence renewals assignments and other thirdparty agreements
- Experience developing business cases for new property developments including cash flow analysis and professional support and advice
- Experience in negotiating the settlement of terms for the acquisition and disposal of property including easements wayleaves and entry onto land under statutory notice and provide regular cost estimates and scheme progress reports as required
- Ability to provide professional advice and be the point of contact for all day to day property management requirements relating to the Resorts Portfolio
- Whilst not essential holding registered value status would be highly beneficial and an ability to undertake a variety of RICS Red Book Valuations annual portfolio Right to Buy valuations and appraisals for disposal or development purposes
- Excellent communication negotiation and stakeholder management skills
As the Estates Manager Resorts you will work in line with ESCs values of being Proud Dynamic Truthful Good Value United and will contribute to the ESC vision of promoting a bright green open free and fair future for all East Suffolk.
Why work for us
East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Counciltake a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work (YouTube).
This is a fulltime permanent position with a salary range of per annum depending on experience and qualifications. You will also enjoy a range of benefits including
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year increasing to 31 days after 5 years service plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Agile working arrangements
- Flexible working arrangements as well as flexitime scheme which allows individuals to accrue flex leave up to 15 days a year
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Discounts on mobile phones computers holiday and travel fashion and clothing health and beauty and many other products and services.
The organisation is passionate about supporting their staff to grow and have and excellent learning development and training opportunities available. This is an excellent opportunity to join a team and organisation that strive to ensure that everyone in the district have vibrant and sustainable communities in which local people and businesses can thrive.
Find more information about what we offer in our benefits brochure (pdf).
The majority of our teams are working in an agile way with a mixture of home and office working depending on individual preferences and service requirements. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate please contact the recruiting manager listed at the bottom of this advert.
To find out more
Please visit our Property and Place pageto find out more about the work in East Suffolk.
For an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Nick Denny at .
Closing date: 11.30pm 9 May 2025.
Interview date: 29 May 2025.
How to apply
Step 1 Read the advert and the Job Descriptions and Job Specification (docx)
Step 3 Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note CVs are not accepted.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
