Property Lead

Tesco Insurance; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK insurance provider is seeking a Property Lead to develop and oversee its workplace strategy. This role involves managing property-related services, ensuring health and safety compliance, and working closely with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have proven property management experience, strong project management skills, and a background in workplace transformation. This position offers competitive salary and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, private healthcare, and retirement planning opportunities.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Performance-related annual bonus

Colleague Clubcard discounts

Green Car Leasing Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven property management experience including budget and supplier aspects.
• Strong project management experience, PM qualifications advantageous.
• Robust experience of developing workplace trends and transformation.
• Stakeholder management skills to create the right outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage property strategy, facilities, and health & safety.
• Develop and communicate policies and strategies.
• Lead property projects and manage budget effectively.
• Oversee supplier performance and recommend improvements.

Skills

Property management experience

Project management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Tesco Insurance • Newcastle - Q8 Building, Quorum Business Park, Longbenton, NE12 8BU • Apply by 16-May-2025 About the role

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary Range from £57,760 + & Benefits & annual bonus

Work Level – 2

Location – Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton or Reigate, Permanent blended working

Shift: Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00, 36 hours per week

Closing Date - Applications close 16 May 2025 at 5pm

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We have an opportunity for a Property Lead to lead on our workplace strategy within Tesco Insurance and Money Services, working with all levels of leadership.

The role

As Property Lead, you’ll be responsible for managing our property strategy, including facilities and health & safety. Supporting strategic improvements, working with senior leaders across the business.

You’ll manage the budget and engagement with suppliers to maximise cost effectiveness and efficiency. This role also involves working with colleagues across the team to support continuous improvements in our policies, frameworks and processes.

What you’ll be doing

• Strategy, policy and framework development.
• Acting as a business partner and managing relationships with internal customers.
• Communicating the actions needed to implement our function's strategy and business plan within the team, explaining the relationship to the broader organisation's strategy.
• Leading on property projects.
• Developing procedures, interpreting and applying policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs, advising the wider business on application of policy and monitoring implementation of those procedures.
• Monitoring and reviewing performance against HS&E KPIs, and patterns of behaviour within the area of responsibility; improving performance and resolving non-compliance with our HS&E policies, procedures and mandatory instructions
• Monitoring, reviewing, and highlighting any gaps in the performance of a portfolio of suppliers to recommend and ensure delivery of improvements / renegotiating or changing contract / supplier.
• Delivering a budget for an area of the organisation or conduct complex analyses on budget progress in other areas of the organisation.
• Overseeing and delivering required service levels of facilities management.
• Providing the right physical environments for our colleagues as our ways of working evolve.
• Leading our approach to cost efficient and effective, environmentally minded workplaces.

We need you to have

• Proven property management experience including budget and supplier aspects.
• Strong project management experience. PM Qualifications are advantageous.
• Robust experience of developing workplace trends and transformation.
• Stakeholder management skills, working with colleagues to create the right outcomes for all parties.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Insurance and Money Services.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare for WL2 and Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy holiday.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews - May 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you : there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.