Associate Director Asset Consulting

Buro Happold group.; Bath; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

This unique opportunity is ideal for an experienced property professional looking to make a meaningful impact. As an Associate Director in the Asset Consultancy team, you will lead the building surveying service and develop client relationships across sectors such as education, culture, and commercial. This role offers the chance to work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment while contributing to sustainable practices in the built environment. With hybrid working arrangements and a commitment to professional development, this is your opportunity to enhance your career while making a difference.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Hybrid working arrangements

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Flexible Benefits

Dental insurance

Optical Cover

Travel insurance

Corporate discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building surveying and consultancy.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and client relationship management.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical problem solving across various sectors.
• Provide strategic property advice and manage client relationships.
• Prepare financial proposals and manage project resources.

Skills

Building Surveying

Project Management

Consulting Skills

Financial Management

Communication Skills

Education

Chartered Status (RICS, CIBSE)

Job description

This unique opportunity is suited to an experienced professional with a strong technical background in Building Surveying and the drive to create meaningful change and inspire growth across Buro Happold.

This role has the potential to accelerate your career from within a vibrant multi-disciplinary organisation. As part of the Asset Consulting team leadership you will have the opportunity to develop and lead the teams building surveying service offer. Building upon existing client relationships held by the team and growing and adding to these to help shape a new team around you.

Buro Happold proudly supports hybrid working however, candidates will be expected to be in our office 2-3 days a week.

With us, your preconceptions will be tested, your resilience built, and your career enriched.

Are you a natural problem solver who enjoys collaborating directly with clients to bring pragmatic, resilient, and environmentally sensitive solutions to the built environment?

This is a pivotal role that will see you acting as an Associate Director in the Asset Consultancy team.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the overall provision of strategic property advice for both individual buildings and completepremises portfolios, across the cultural, commercial, entertainment, financial, utilities, technology and education sectors.

This role would suit a highly experienced property professional with strong consulting skills and a genuine interest in solving complex problems.Above all, we're looking for someone that's passionate about enhancing the performance and usability of existing buildings to create a more sustainable world.

What is Asset Consultancy?

Our Asset Consulting team is a multi-disciplinary group and part of the wider Specialist Engineering community within Buro Happold. Working directly with investors, operators, and end user clients the team provide strategic technical advice focussing on the operation, design life, flexibility and maintainability of assets during the anticipated life of a building. Known for their pragmatic, hands-on approach, they work closely with our clients to diagnose and solve problems, optimise building performance, reduce running and operational costs and plan for organisational change. With previous involvement in high-profile estates such as the British Museum, Cambridge University and Birmingham Airport, our Asset Consultancy team have established themselves as true specialists in their field.

What will I be doing?

Associate Directors within the practice are responsible for taking a lead on technical problem solving and whole projects across many sectors including sport and culture, aviation, commercial, scientific and education. Recent projects have included major airports, national football stadia, university campuses and corporate headquarter buildings as well as an ongoing portfolio of work in the local region.

Input to the projects is likely to be varied but will include the requirement to:

• Provide professional property advice to clients and end-users including, but not limited to, building performance, forward maintenance planning, capital expenditure programming, dilapidations, creative reuse and project management activities,
• Act as Project Director,
• Lead development of strategic, technically based reports and plans to present directly to clients and end-users,
• Take ownership for client relationships with end-users, developers, contractors, etc.
• Organise resources and ensure that services and projects are carried out to an agreed programme and within budget,
• Prepare financial proposals for new work,
• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning job resourcing/expenditure,
• Ensure all relevant Buro Happold staff are informed of client matters,
• Contribute to and lead Buro Happold wide initiatives with respect to technical development / market sectors and processes.
• Commitment to CPD and self-learning/development,
• Actively seek new opportunities for the Group internally and externally; actively cross-sell other Buro Happold disciplines externally.

More about you.

As an experienced property professional,it is expected that you will be able to demonstrate:

• Chartered status with a relevant industry body (such as the RICS, CIBSE or similar) with experience in facilities management/property consultancy.
• Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organisation, combined with the ability to work independently.
• Experience in the preparation of professional reports for delivery direct to a client audience,
• Project management and coordination of multi-disciplinary teams,
• Strong financial and account management skills,
• The applicant will need to be an excellent communicator (verbal, written and listening) with experience of presenting (you will often be required to present solutions directly to clients)
• Mobility to travel at short notice.

Why Buro Happold?

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What we offer:

Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [e-mail] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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