Senior/Associate Director - Property Management

Beach Baker; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Private healthcare

Enhanced benefits package

Excellent holiday allowance

Job summary

A successful UK property consultancy is seeking an experienced Senior Associate Director-level Property Management Surveyor for its Bristol office. The successful candidate will manage a high-quality commercial property portfolio, engage with institutional clients, and lead a team. This senior position offers hybrid working, competitive salary, a bonus structure, and a comprehensive benefits package, including private healthcare and a car allowance. Excellent communication and client management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial property management is essential.
• Strong exposure to retail and leisure portfolios is required.
• Proven ability to manage senior client relationships is necessary.
• Hybrid working with autonomy and accountability.
• Excellent communication and client-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of a diverse commercial property portfolio.
• Build trusted long-term relationships with clients.
• Lead on service charge budgeting and financial reporting.
• Supervise and mentor junior surveyors and teams.
• Support acquisitions, disposals, and lease events.
• Mentor surveyors and on-site teams.
• Identify opportunities to cross-sell wider professional services.

Skills

Commercial property management

Client relationship management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Financial reporting

Job description

A highly successful UK property consultancy has instructed Beach Baker to recruit an experienced Senior Associate Director‑level Property Management Surveyor to join its established Bristol office.

This is a senior opportunity to take ownership of a high‑quality, income‑producing commercial (retail shopping centres and retail parks) property portfolio, with exposure to institutional‑grade clients and responsibility for client relationships, team leadership, and service delivery.

The Opportunity

The role offers a broad and influential remit within a collaborative commercial property team, managing assets across retail, leisure, office, and industrial sectors. The successful candidate will play a key role in both client servicing and team development, with strong scope for progression.

Role highlights include:

• Hybrid working within a culture that values autonomy, trust, and accountability
• Responsibility for prestigious landlord and investor portfolios
• Direct engagement with institutional, fund, and major property company clients
• Leadership responsibility, including mentoring and developing junior surveyors
• Strong integration with other in‑house disciplines such as sustainability, building surveying, leasing, and placemaking
• Competitive salary and a transparent bonus structure

Key Responsibilities

• Managing the day‑to‑day operation of a diverse commercial property portfolio
• Acting as a primary client contact, building trusted long‑term relationships
• Leading on service charge budgeting, reconciliation, and financial reporting
• Producing detailed client reports on a quarterly, annual, and ad‑hoc basis
• Ensuring rental income, tenant arrears, and other income streams are managed accurately
• Overseeing compliance with lease obligations and common service provision
• Supervising and mentoring surveyors, graduates, and on‑site teams
• Undertaking and arranging property inspections
• Advising clients on value enhancement initiatives, asset strategies, and lease events
• Supporting clients with acquisitions, disposals, and tenant applications (assignments, subletting, alterations)
• Identifying opportunities to cross‑sell wider professional services

What We’re Looking For

• Significant experience in commercial property management
• Strong exposure to retail and leisure portfolios alongside wider commercial assets
• Proven ability to manage senior client relationships with confidence and gravitas
• Experience leading or mentoring teams
• A proactive, commercially minded, and solutions‑focused approach
• Excellent communication, organisation, and client‑management skills
• Highly competitive basic salary
• Car allowance (level dependent)
• Private healthcare and enhanced benefits package
• Hybrid working from a modern Bristol office
• Excellent holiday allowance plus additional benefits

How to Apply

All applications and discussions will be handled in the strictest confidence.

Please contact Rupert Stuart‑Baker at Beach Baker for an initial conversation, or email your CV directly to:

Not all of our instructions are advertised, so please do get in touch to arrange a confidential discussion.