Head of Corporate Property & Assets
Employer: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Salary: £80,872 - £84,703
Closing date: 10 Sep 2025
Reference: 0000024957
Sector: Local Councils
Job Type: Management
Contract Type: Full time permanent
Working Pattern: See advert details
Hours: Full-Time
Job Details
Directorate: Housing, regeneration and Operations
Section: Corporate Property
Grade: SM5
Salary: £80,872 - £84,703
Hours: 37
This advert is open to both Internal and External applicants.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the council's corporate property and assets function, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of a comprehensive corporate property and asset management service across the council's operational, non-operational and commercial investment portfolios. To lead, motivate and inspire the Corporate Property & Assets team to deliver high levels of service and support. To provide a clear and robust focus on driving value, improving service standards, achieving efficiencies, realizing savings, and identifying income and capital receipt opportunities across the council's property portfolio. To support the council's strategic priorities of improving community wellbeing and community wealth-building.
At Stoke-on-Trent City Council, we believe our strength comes from the diversity of our community, and we want our workforce to reflect that. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. We understand that some people, especially those from underrepresented or marginalized backgrounds, may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all of the listed requirements. If this role interests you and you think you could be a good fit, we encourage you to apply.
We are proud of what makes each of us unique and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels included, can be themselves, and can succeed together.
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About us: Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximize the benefits of transformation.
Our city: Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery.
Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximizing the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.
Rewards and benefits: When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.
Our commitment to you: Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavor should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive.
Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need.
Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organization when developing policies and services.
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Company info
Location: Stoke on Trent City Council, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 1HH, GB
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The successful candidate will be responsible in leading the council's corporate property and assets function, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of a comprehensive corporate property and asset management service across the council's operational, non-operational and commercial investment portfolios. To lead, motivate and inspire the Corporate Property & Assets team to deliver high levels of service and support. To provide a clear and robust focus on driving value, improving service standards, achieving efficiencies, realising savings, and identifying income and capital receipt opportunities across the council's property portfolio. To support the council's strategic priorities of improving community wellbeing and community wealth-building.
At Stoke-on-Trent City Council, we believe our strength comes from the diversity of our community, and we want our workforce to reflect that. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. We understand that some people, especially those from underrepresented or marginalised backgrounds, may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all of the listed requirements. If this role interests you and you think you could be a good fit, we encourage you to apply.
We are proud of what makes each of us unique and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels included, can be themselves, and can succeed together., Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.
Our city
Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery.
Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we've been voted the kindest city in the UK - and a place where you'll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated 'world capital of ceramics'. But we don't just want to celebrate our proud past - we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent's best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.
When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you'll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We'll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.
Our commitment to you
Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent's greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive.
Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need.
Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.
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