Residential Property Manager

Job Introduction

Sodexo are currently recruiting for a number of brand new opportunities due to growth in our Corporate Services segment. Sodexo is the 19^th largest employer worldwide, operating in 80 countries and employing 427,000 employees worldwide, we are the leader in Quality of Life services. Sodexo is not only a growth company; it is also a people-oriented company that places quality of life of its 100 million consumers at the center of its mission. Join our teams and experience their passion and the unique Sodexo spirit!

Do you have experience in property management and development? Sodexo are recruiting for a Residential Property Manager that will involve managing a portfolio of residential property developments across Scotland ensuring a high level of service is provided to our client. You will be responsible for managing maintenance and compliance, ensuring outstanding service delivery at all times.

The Residential Property Manager will be supporting 65 properties for our clients’ employees or 3^rd parties, providing housing to some of their staff members due to the location of their sites/distilleries which can be remote. It is essential for you to have condition survey experience, prepare Capex plans and then facilitate and oversea completion of work.

Ideally you would be based in the North of Scotland, a majority of the properties are in the North, you would need to travel all over Scotland from the border up to Isle of Skye, you need to be great at time management, prioritising and understand customers requirement.

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Role Responsibility

• Prepare detailed condition surveys for all houses and devise CAPEX plans and maintenance programme resulting from surveys
• Full Health and Safety Compliance across all Service Lines within scope with on-going proactive management of all Health and Safety risks within the business area/contract. All audits passed and up to date risk register maintained
• Ensure remedial works on houses completed in line with SLAs & Liaise with contractors to ensure all works completed in line with SLAs
• Support Diageo in ensuring all tenants have leases and are maintaining the property in line with this
• Ensure all houses are compliant with legislation and future proof the portfolio for our client
• Liaise with tenants, local authorities and relevant stakeholders ensuring excellent communication
• Operations are delivered in compliance to the contract
• Safety, Health and Environment compliance in all activities
• Services delivered within budgets and savings achieved, innovations and initiative appropriately captured

The Ideal Candidate

• An appropriate level of experience of working within a residential property management environment with total responsibility for all Services
• NEBOSH or equivalent
• Experience of working within an extremely high pressurised dynamic environment
• Strong financial and project management experience, planning, managing and controlling costs
• Ability to interpret and utilise financial and commercial information
• Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
• Positive approach to learning in role and identifying own training needs as appropriate
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment
• Knowledge of current and upcoming housing legislation
• Travel required so driving licence essential
• Experienced in using Microsoft Office
• People management experience
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• CIEH Level 3 qualification
• Must have an Engineering Degree or equivalent
• Experience of managing conflicting expectations of the client and consumer within one business area

Package Description

This role has a salary of £35,000 - £40,000 dependant on experience with an array of benefits including flexible benefits fund, a car, retailer discount schemes, annual leave and pension. This is a Monday to Friday role, 40 hours per week for a 6 months fixed term contract initially 

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process