GIS Manager

Savills; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading real estate services company is looking for a GIS Manager for their Land Referencing & Geospatial team. This home-based role involves leading a GIS Hub to provide strategic and operational leadership for infrastructure projects. Key responsibilities include managing a GIS team, ensuring compliance with national standards, and overseeing geospatial outputs. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and experience in geospatial data analysis. Competitive benefits are offered, including a global mobility scheme and enhanced annual leave.

Benefits

Career and Professional Development

25-30 Days Annual Leave

Life Assurance

Private Medical Scheme

Virtual GP

Global Mobility Scheme

Rewards Platform

Company Pension Scheme

Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills to manage a multidisciplinary GIS team.
• Experience in handling geospatial data models and mapping products.
• Understanding of national standards for GIS outputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary GIS team.
• Define and maintain the GIS Hub’s strategic direction and best practices.
• Oversee the creation and management of mapping products and applications.

Skills

GIS leadership

Project management

Geospatial data analysis

Job description

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a GIS Manager to join our Land Referencing & Geospatial team.

You’ll be responsible for leading our GIS Hub within the Land Referencing & Geospatial Team, providing strategic, technical, and operational leadership for all GIS deliverables that support major infrastructure development schemes. The role ensures that geospatial data, mapping outputs, analysis, and digital processes meet the requirements of national infrastructure planning, land acquisition, stakeholder engagement, and statutory processes.

This is a home-based position, and your focus will be in the following areas :

• Lead, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary GIS team, ensuring effective workload planning, resource allocation, and professional development.
• Define and maintain the GIS Hub’s strategic direction, technical standards, and best practices.
• Act as the primary GIS lead for major infrastructure projects and cross-disciplinary workstreams.
• Oversee the creation and management of mapping products, geospatial data models, web GIS applications, and spatial analysis to support land acquisition and infrastructure project development.
• Ensure all GIS outputs adhere to national standards, project specifications, and statutory requirements (e.g., DCO, CPO, EIAs).
• Lead GIS scoping, resourcing, and planning for large infrastructure programmes and associated land acquisition work.

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What we offer you :

• Career and Professional Development
• 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Scheme
• Virtual GP
• Global Mobility Scheme
• Rewards Platform
• Company Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave

Find out more about Savills offer

Team Overview

Savills Land Referencing & Geospatial team support a wide range of utility and infrastructure projects across the UK.

The wider Rural division operates across the UK, with a network of 37 offices and a number of estate offices from Inverness in the North to Truro in the South-West

Recruitment agencies

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Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.