Property Manager

Role Overview

Savills is looking for an experienced Property Manager to work in a diverse management role within the team in Oxford.

The successful candidate will be working predominantly on a growing commercial property portfolio as part of a small team dedicated to high profile operational clients. You must be able to work both independently and within a busy team.

The Oxford office is part of a Savills multi-disciplined business and deals with all facets of commercial property management including service charge and commercial portfolio management.

Driving license is needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Take a very “hands on” proactive role in property management.
• Carry out regular property inspections.
• Be responsible for preparing in advance for client meetings, recording minutes of those meetings and carrying out any actions arising.
• Ensure accurate client reports are prepared to the correct specifications and issued to clients in accordance with agreed timescales, subject to approval by line manager as required.
• Reading and summarising of leases and ensure accurate data is maintained on the property management systems and to regularly check update and audit the accuracy of the data.
• Take a proactive approach in terms of asset management opportunities and the exploiting of potential initiatives.
• Advance planning for critical lease event dates such as rent reviews, lease expiries and options and assisting with an implementation strategy for these.
• Ensure tenant arrears are proactively managed in conjunction with the Savills central credit control team.
• Dealing with tenant and client queries in a timely and efficient manner.
• Draft, review and approve service charge budgets.
• Review service charge cash flow and budget regularly.
• Liaise with the building managers and regional facilities managers to ensure that buildings are well maintained at all times.
• Approve service charge reconciliations.
• Invoice approval and ensuring correct coding of expenditure in line with budgets.
• Identify and progress opportunities for cross selling activities.
• Identify opportunities for providing additional services to clients.
• Building strong working relationship with the existing clients. 

Key Skills

QUALIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL ABILITIES
• MRICS Qualified or similar
• Demonstrable property management experience
• Preferably some experience of Landlord & Tenant lease advisory work
• Numerate and technically competent
• Strong attention to detail and a practical pragmatic common sense approach to management
• Ability to deal with challenging mandates and coping with a high work load
• Excellent IT, problem solving, analytical, negotiation, interpersonal and managerial skills

Team Overview

The team consists of two Directors, three Associate Directors three Associates and a Team Administrator. The team contains specialists in both property management and asset management, with opportunities for new team members to develop their skill set in the latter dependent on experience. Our work is diverse and interesting with both local clients, many clustered around the University, and national mixed use portfolios. 

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Recruitment agencies

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.