As our Head of Group Property and Estates, you will guide the vision, strategy and delivery of our full estates portfolio, ensuring that our property footprint supports organisational growth, customer experience and long‑term resilience. You will shape and implement our Estates & Property Services strategy, ensuring it aligns with business goals and reflects our purpose‑led culture.
You will provide expert leadership across acquisitions, disposals, lease negotiations and rent reviews, bringing commercial insight and confident decision‑making to our property portfolio. Alongside this, you will set policies, standards and governance frameworks that empower our Property Services teams while maintaining clear senior oversight of operational delivery.
Collaboration will be central to your success, as you build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders, legal advisors, agents, contractors and external partners. You will maintain accountability for property risk, regulatory compliance, business continuity and security, ensuring our estate operates safely, efficiently and in line with all relevant legislation.
You will also play a meaningful role in shaping the future capability of the property function, leading, developing and supporting a high performing team while ensuring strong financial stewardship across both capital and operational budgets. Sustainability, inclusive design and ESG considerations will feature strongly in your approach as you help the organisation create environments that reflect care, responsibility and long‑term value.
About You
You’ll bring a blend of strategic thinking, technical expertise and people leadership. You're someone who enjoys solving problems, guiding others and shaping environments that work well for everyone.
To thrive here, you will have:
RICS Chartered Surveyor status
Strong senior level experience managing multisite estates or property operations.
A track record of delivering complex development, refurbishment or optimisation projects.
Deep understanding of compliance, health & safety, operational risk and business continuity.
Confidence in lease negotiations, acquisitions/disposals and commercial property management.
Experience leading teams, shaping culture and building capability.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at senior levels.
About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.
Group Property Services are part of Group Property & Procurement who support colleagues, customers and clients ensuring operations continue seamlessly. We respond to reactive requests, have planned schedules of duties and work strategically with stakeholders across the business.
Our Group Property Services team is currently going through a transformation to ensure we are future fit to continue to support colleagues, customers and clients as well as planned investment in the property estate.
As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:
Corporate bonus scheme (on target 15%, up to a maximum 22.5%)
Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
Annual performance related pay reviews
Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
Access to our financial advisers
Access to a range of high street and online discounts
Work/Life Balance
A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood
Health and Wellbeing
Private medical insurance
Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
Access to an employee assistance programme
Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
Two paid volunteering days’ each year
Cycle to work scheme
Recognising there’s no one‑size‑fits‑all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at kate.wilkinson@newcastle.co.uk
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