Lead Built Asset Manager

Tesco; Leigh Woods; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Holiday 25 days + personal day + bank

Private medical insurance

Maternity/adoption leave with service

24/7 virtual GP & EAP

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Lead Built Asset Manager to provide strategic direction across building standards, asset data, and engineering services. You will lead a team of internal specialists and external consultants to ensure robust asset management and compliance across Tesco's estate.

The role focuses on shaping long-term investment decisions, improving asset performance, and aligning technical delivery with business priorities while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Chartered status within a relevant built environment discipline.
• Degree-level qualification in Property, Construction, Engineering or a related built environment subject.
• Significant experience within the built asset, property, construction or engineering sector.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Experience developing and implementing building, engineering or asset management strategies.
• Strong understanding of UK building regulations, standards and legislation.
• Experience managing building condition surveys, asset databases and defect management programmes.
• Commercial awareness with experience managing consultancy services, budgets and supplier relationships.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level.
• A passion for innovation, continuous improvement and delivering long-term value through property investment.
• An appreciation of the operational demands of a large retail business and the ability to balance technical requirements with commercial priorities.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of internal specialists and external consultants, providing expert built asset and structural engineering advice across the business.
• Owning Tesco's building standards and specifications, ensuring they remain current, robust and aligned to legislative and business requirements.
• Managing the effective utilisation of external building surveying consultancy services to assess, monitor and improve the condition of our estate.
• Ensuring accurate, reliable and comprehensive building asset data is maintained and used to support strategic decision making.
• Leading the development and ongoing evolution of the Building Asset Management Database.
• Working closely with Development, Maintenance, Assets & Estates and Capital Delivery teams to ensure the right processes and priorities are in place to maintain and improve our estate.
• Providing technical input into long-term Property strategy and investment planning, ensuring building defects and asset risks are appropriately managed.
• Driving innovation and continuous improvement in building standards, engineering processes and safety performance.
• Maintaining strong links with industry bodies and professional networks, ensuring Tesco remains aligned with emerging trends, legislation and best practice.
• Sharing knowledge and best practice across the wider Tesco Group.
• Championing a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and continuous development.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Commercial awareness

Innovation

Strategic thinking

Education

Degree in Property/Construction/Engineering

Tools

Building Asset Management Database

Job description

At Tesco, our Property team is responsible for maintaining and evolving one of the UK's largest and most complex property portfolios. Ensuring our assets remain safe, compliant and fit for the future is critical to delivering a great experience for customers and colleagues alike.

As Lead Built Asset Manager, you'll lead our built asset capability, providing strategic direction and technical leadership across building standards, asset data, structural engineering and specialist consultancy services. You'll be responsible for ensuring our built estate is managed effectively, supported by robust standards, reliable asset information and expert technical advice.

This is a highly influential leadership role, working across multiple Property functions to shape long-term investment decisions, improve asset performance and ensure our estate continues to meet the needs of the business both now and in the future.

About the role

At Tesco, our Property team is responsible for maintaining and evolving one of the UK's largest and most complex property portfolios. Ensuring our assets remain safe, compliant and fit for the future is critical to delivering a great experience for customers and colleagues alike.

As Lead Built Asset Manager, you'll lead our built asset capability, providing strategic direction and technical leadership across building standards, asset data, structural engineering and specialist consultancy services. You'll be responsible for ensuring our built estate is managed effectively, supported by robust standards, reliable asset information and expert technical advice.

This is a highly influential leadership role, working across multiple Property functions to shape long-term investment decisions, improve asset performance and ensure our estate continues to meet the needs of the business both now and in the future.

You will be responsible for

• Leading a team of internal specialists and external consultants, providing expert built asset and structural engineering advice across the business.
• Owning Tesco's building standards and specifications, ensuring they remain current, robust and aligned to legislative and business requirements.
• Managing the effective utilisation of external building surveying consultancy services to assess, monitor and improve the condition of our estate.
• Ensuring accurate, reliable and comprehensive building asset data is maintained and used to support strategic decision making.
• Leading the development and ongoing evolution of the Building Asset Management Database.
• Working closely with Development, Maintenance, Assets & Estates and Capital Delivery teams to ensure the right processes and priorities are in place to maintain and improve our estate.
• Providing technical input into long-term Property strategy and investment planning, ensuring building defects and asset risks are appropriately managed.
• Driving innovation and continuous improvement in building standards, engineering processes and safety performance.
• Maintaining strong links with industry bodies and professional networks, ensuring Tesco remains aligned with emerging trends, legislation and best practice.
• Sharing knowledge and best practice across the wider Tesco Group.
• Championing a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and continuous development.

You will need

• Chartered status within a relevant built environment discipline.
• Degree-level qualification in Property, Construction, Engineering or a related built environment subject.
• Significant experience within the built asset, property, construction or engineering sector.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Experience developing and implementing building, engineering or asset management strategies.
• Strong understanding of UK building regulations, standards and legislation.
• Experience managing building condition surveys, asset databases and defect management programmes.
• Commercial awareness with experience managing consultancy services, budgets and supplier relationships.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level.
• A passion for innovation, continuous improvement and delivering long-term value through property investment.
• An appreciation of the operational demands of a large retail business and the ability to balance technical requirements with commercial priorities.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

Whats in it for you?

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

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About Us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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