Senior Asset Manager - Cambridge Science Park

Bidwells; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bidwells is seeking a Senior Asset Manager to lead strategic management of Cambridge Science Park on behalf of Trinity College Cambridge. The role focuses on creating long-term value across a 152-acre site with 2 million sq ft of space, coordinating experts to deliver plans and reporting to stakeholders.

You will drive rent reviews, renewals, development opportunities, and sustainability initiatives while building strong relationships with occupiers, investors, local authorities and advisors.

Qualifications

• Solid commercial property and investment management experience.
• MRICS qualification preferred; breadth and relevance of experience matters most.
• Able to translate strategy into delivery and influence outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver strategic Asset Management Plans for key assets.
• Identify value-creating opportunities across lease events, lettings and development.
• Oversee financial assessment of investments and asset management options.
• Coordinate internal and external specialists to deliver strategy.
• Build trusted client and stakeholder relationships and report on performance.
• Contribute to sustainability and net-zero initiatives at asset level.

Skills

MRICS (desirable)

Financial analysis

Analytical skills

Decision making

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Sustainability focus

Education

MRICS qualification

Job description

Senior Asset Manager - Cambridge Science Park

Full time Cambridge

BidwellsarelookingforanexceptionalSeniorAssetManagertoworkpredominantlyonbehalfofTrinityCollegeCambridge,oneofourmostsignificantinvestmentclients.OursuccessfulhirewillhaveopportunitytoplayacentralroleinthemanagementandevolutionofitsUKpropertyendowment,withaparticularfocusononeoftheportfolio’sflagshipassets,CambridgeSciencePark.

For an Asset Manager looking for scale, complexity, influence and genuine long-term impact, opportunities like this don’t come around often.

A chance to shape an extraordinary asset

A major focus of your role will be Cambridge Science Park, where Trinity College’s freehold ownership extends across the full 152-acre Park, incorporating parkland and lakes alongside approximately 2 million sq ft of office, laboratory and amenity space.

Rather than simply managing what exists today, you’ll help determine what comes next.

You’ll develop and deliver strategic Asset Management Plans, identify opportunities to create value, assess investment opportunities and oversee initiatives spanning lease events, lettings, refurbishment, development, planning and sustainability.

You'll work alongside an exceptional multidisciplinary team including asset and property managers, letting agents, planners, building surveyors, project managers, facilities managers and lease consultancy specialists. You’ll also build relationships with occupiers, investor-tenants, local authorities, neighbouring landowners and other stakeholders.

Few Asset Management roles offer this breadth of exposure or the opportunity to influence an asset of this scale.

What you'll be doing

At the heart of the role will be creating and delivering strategies that generate sustainable, long-term value.

You’ll:

• Develop and execute short, medium and long-term Asset Management Plans.
• Identify opportunities to enhance value through rent reviews, lease renewals, re-gears, lettings, refurbishment, development and planning.
• Undertake the financial assessment of investment and asset management opportunities.
• Oversee projects and coordinate internal and external specialists to turn strategy into delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with the client, occupiers, local authorities and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure the wider Bidwells team understands the strategy for each asset and works collectively to deliver it.
• Help translate the client’s sustainability ambitions into practical asset-level strategies and initiatives.
• Take responsibility for excellent client reporting and service delivery.
• Contribute your ideas, experience and perspective to the wider Investment and Property Management team.

Who we're looking for

We're looking for someone who is as comfortable thinking strategically as they are getting things done.

You’ll bring solid commercial property and investment management experience, ideally gained across different asset classes, together with exposure to a variety of asset management initiatives. You'll be commercially astute, financially confident and able to analyse an opportunity, build a compelling case and see it through to delivery.

You’ll ideally be MRICS qualified with demonstrable experience in a similar, high-profile role, but for us, it’s the strength, breadth and relevance of your experience that matters most, rather than simply how many years you’ve been qualified.

More importantly, we're looking for someone who:

• Thinks creatively about how property can deliver long-term value.
• Enjoys solving complex commercial and property challenges.
• Can challenge thinking while remaining collaborative and pragmatic.
• Builds trusted relationships naturally, from senior clients to occupiers and specialist advisers.
• Has strong financial, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Understands commercial landlord and tenant matters.
• Has an interest in sustainability and the net zero carbon agenda within property investment.
• Wants the opportunity to take genuine ownership and influence strategy, not simply administer it.

Why Bidwells?

Because some clients and portfolios give you the opportunity to do your career-defining work. This is one of them!

You’ll be trusted with meaningful responsibility and given the autonomy to bring forward ideas, challenge established thinking and influence the long-term strategy for significant assets.

And you won't be doing it alone. You'll have specialists from across Bidwells around you, giving you the breadth of expertise needed to approach Asset Management in a genuinely joined-up way.

Come and help us shape an extraordinary portfolio for generations to come.

Bidwells is dedicated to fostering a truly inclusive culture of belonging, where everyone can thrive and succeed as their true and authentic selves at every level. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and positively encourage applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief. Flexible working requests are considered from day one.