Local Authority Head of Property Design and Delivery, Staffordshire

Pertemps; Stafford; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Local Authority Head of Property Design and Delivery in Staffordshire. You will manage a team of 30 professionals in overseeing the delivery of property design functions, ensuring seamless transitions for critical school projects. The ideal candidate will have leadership experience in property design and significant project management skills. This hybrid position requires attendance at the Stafford office for part of the week, with a focus on delivering a £120m portfolio of work encompassing various educational and healthcare projects.

Benefits

Dedicated consultant support

Online registration process

Referral schemes and incentives

Ongoing compliance management

Prompt payroll service

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading property professional services design offices.
• Strong understanding of organizational structure implications.
• Experience in managing teams and relationships with suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Oversight of property professional services design function.
• Managing a team of approximately 30 professionals.
• Implementing seamless transition services for school projects.

Skills

Leadership in property design

Project management

Experience with TUPE

Strategic planning

Hybrid working capability

Job description

Local Authority Head of Property Design and Delivery, Staffordshire

Pay rate £500 per day

Contract role, Local Authority (Commercial and Assets)

Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Local Authority Head of Property Design and Delivery in Staffordshire.

Purpose of the role

• This role will oversee the insourcing of a Property Professional Services Design function via TUPE, managing a team of approximately 30 professionals and overseeing supplier relationships. The post holder will provide strategic leadership, ensure service excellence, and drive innovation in property design and delivery.
• The post holder will ensure the necessary systems and processes are in place to allow for continuity of service over the transition period and will provide advice over organisational design and recruitment to a future fit for purpose operating model.
• The successful person will need to be able to advise on the organisational structure implications and options. Essentially this is a Head of Property type role but with significant design office experience who is able to technically lead a design function.
• This is a hybrid role and you will be required to attend our Stafford office 3 or 4 days a week but occasionally full time on site.

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• This is a temporary appointment to lead and manage the return in house of a property design team. The team currently works virtually exclusively on council school new builds expansion and corporate building type projects. They do buy in some M&E, structural and civil capabilities but deliver all architecture and PM/QS work.
• We need someone with experience of leading a property professional services design office who can plan for and implement a seamless transition of the services back in to the council with an emphasis on delivery of the time critical school projects.
• The portfolio of work is circa £120m currently with most of that at design stage, covering a mainstream all through school, an SEND all through school, several new primary schools, a health centre, 80 bed nursing home and school and office expansions and refurbishments.

You will need experience of working in a similar role.

Please get in touch for more information.

Agency information

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

Please contact Graham Leatham on 07484 513909 or email [e-mail] for more information.

We recruit across all areas of Housing, Public Sector, Planning and Local Government work. If you are experienced in this sector and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles.