Rural Estates Manager

Hammond Clarke; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Rural Estates Manager to oversee a 14,000-hectare estate, ensuring strategic financial and environmental performance. Responsibilities include managing operations, delivering budgets, and leading a team to implement rural asset strategies while maximizing the value from substantial estate assets.

Qualifications

• Experience in property management and strategic development.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage complex budgets and deliver on financial targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team managing the Council's 14,000-hectare rural estate.
• Oversee operations, budgets, and property management.
• Provide high-quality professional advice to stakeholders.

Job description

Rural Estates Manager :

The role leads a team managing the Council s 14,000-hectare rural estate, ensuring strategic, financial, and environmental performance. Responsibilities include overseeing operations, delivering budgets, advising stakeholders, driving development opportunities, and supporting climate and biodiversity goals, while maintaining accurate property records and maximising value from the estate s £245 million assets and £6 million annual revenue.

Main accountabilities

To lead the rural team who provide day to day operational management of the Council s rural estate, involving landlord and tenant work, property maintenance, a capital building programme, environmental management, renewable energy, and climate change.

To lead the rural team in providing high quality professional advice and reports to internal partners, senior management, Council Members, auditors, and the public as required on rural asset management matters and represent the Council at a national and local level.

To lead the strategic development of the Council s Rural Estate, preparing the Council s Rural Asset Management Strategy and Farm Management Plans and their implementation and ongoing review.

To lead the delivery of revenue and capital budgets on target, maximising rent collected and maximising debt recovery and the collection of service charges and achieving savings and efficiencies targets.

To provide direct line management to the Rural Estate Management team, with technical and pastoral advice and guidance, and where appropriate, seconded or matrix managed employees within customers organisations.

Working with the Strategic Asset Manager, identify and implement planning and development opportunities which will provide better buildings and generate financial returns for the Council, and which together will improve services for the public.

Oversee the team who together act as an intelligent client-side advisor, procuring and overseeing specialist asset management advisors to ensure that the Council receives the best property advice and ensure the best service delivery for the public.

To lead complex negotiations with public and private sector organisations to deliver property acquisitions, disposals, and other contracts within appropriate timescales and in line with best consideration requirements, contributing to the delivery of annual capital receipts, revenue, and climate change targets.

To ensure that the Council s rural estate GIS maps, plans and property databases and records are up to date and accurate.