Senior Estates Manager

Berkeley Group Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

25 days annual leave

Pension plan

Group life assurance

Discount platform

Volunteer day

Job summary

Berkeley Group is seeking an Estates Manager to lead the Estates Team across multiple developments, ensuring high-quality delivery and robust governance. You will oversee complex estates, leasehold management and managing agents, wiring in TP1s, service charges and CAPEX planning.

The role requires deep experience in residential or mixed-use estates, strong leadership, and a clear ability to engage senior stakeholders while ensuring Building Safety compliance and regulatory obligations are met.

Qualifications

• Extensive estates and leasehold management experience with TP1s, head leases, service charge governance.
• Experience managing complex residential or mixed-use developments.
• Strong understanding of managing agents, performance management, and compliance scrutiny.
• Proven leadership and coaching ability to develop junior team members.
• Advanced technical understanding of building services, O&M manuals, fire strategies and asset documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, support and develop the Estates Team, setting clear priorities and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Act as first escalation point for complex estate issues including defects, compliance queries and lease/TP1 interpretations.
• Manage a portfolio of high-complexity or high-risk developments with robust mobilisation and inspections.
• Provide expert oversight on managing agents, service charge budgets, staffing models and CAPEX planning.
• Oversee Building Safety compliance, safety case file preparation and golden thread information management.

Skills

Estate management

Leasehold management

Managing agents

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

TP1 knowledge

Job description

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.

We specialise in long‑term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders.

We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.

Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead, support and develop the Estates Team, providing day‑to‑day management of the Estates Coordinator, setting clear priorities, reviewing workload, and ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery across all estates functions.
• Act as the first escalation point for complex estate issues, including operational defects, design concerns, compliance queries, lease/TP1 interpretations, statutory risks and managing agent performance challenges.
• Manage a portfolio of high‑complexity or higher‑risk developments, ensuring robust mobilisation, structured handovers, comprehensive inspections, statutory compliance, life‑safety system verification and performance monitoring of managing agents and third‑party operators.
• Provide expert oversight on managing agents, including detailed review of service charge budgets and accounts, staffing models, procurement strategies, PPM schedules, and CAPEX planning to ensure alignment with lease/TP1 requirements and long‑term building needs.
• Oversee Building Safety compliance, including supporting Safety Case File preparation, golden thread information management, competent person documentation, fire risk actions, resident engagement obligations, and ensuring managing agents are meeting Building Safety Act responsibilities. communicated within Berkeley.

What You'll Bring

• Extensive estates and leasehold management experience, with advanced understanding of TP1s, head leases, estate structuring, service charge governance and the operational management of complex residential or mixed‑use developments.
• Deep managing agent experience, including appointment, performance management, challenge, compliance scrutiny, and strong working knowledge of statutory inspection regimes, PPM requirements and industry best practice.
• Strong leadership and coaching ability, with experience developing junior team members, setting direction, ensuring quality control and supporting a high‑performing Estates function.
• Advanced technical understanding, including ability to interpret building services information, O&M manuals, fire strategies, M&E systems, statutory certificates, asset registers and handover documentation.
• Building Safety expertise, including understanding of Safety Case principles, golden thread requirements, building risk assessments, competent person management, fire safety actions, and the interaction between developers, accountable persons and managing agents.
• Confident communication and problem‑solving skills, capable of managing escalations, engaging with senior stakeholders, influencing managing agents and providing authoritative guidance across operational, technical and customer‑focused matters.

Why join us?

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
• Private pension plan.
• Group life assurance.

The standard default full‑time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.

Internal applicants:

If you’re an internal applicant, please ensure you’ve informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.