Senior Property & Asset Manager Surveyor
Location: Wilmslow, Cheshire
Business Area: Property and Asset Management
Reports to: Managing Director
Full or Part time: Full time
Salary Banding: Depending on experience
At Re:volve Real Estate, we are committed to attracting and retaining exceptional professionals by offering a supportive, flexible, and rewarding working environment.
Benefits and Rewards
In return for your expertise and leadership, we offer:
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus an additional day off to celebrate your birthday
• Hybrid working, providing flexibility while maintaining strong team collaboration
• A senior leadership role with genuine opportunity to shape the growth and future direction of the business
• Regular team-building and social events, reflecting our collaborative and people-focused culture
• Company pension scheme
• Death in Service cover
• A director-led environment where your expertise, judgement, and professional voice are valued
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a growing, ambitious firm that values quality, integrity, and long-term client relationships.
Main Purpose of Role
To lead and deliver high-quality property and asset management services across a varied commercial portfolio, providing strategic oversight while ensuring operational excellence. This unique role combines hands-on property management with asset strategy, ensuring assets perform at optimum levels and continue to evolve in line with client objectives.
You will take responsibility for investment performance, operational compliance, tenant engagement, lease events, service charge operation, and strategic portfolio direction. Working closely with senior leadership, the wider management team, clients, and occupiers, you will uphold Re:volve Real Estate’s reputation for delivering best-in-class, director-led professional services.
The successful candidate will also be responsible for ensuring all operational, financial, and strategic activities comply with RICS professional standards and the RICS Service Charge Code, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of evolving guidance and best practice requirements.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
* Provide strategic oversight across the property portfolio, developing and implementing asset management plans that maximise performance and align with client goals.
* Lead on all key lease events including rent reviews, lease renewals, re-gears, and negotiations to optimise income and mitigate risk.
* Oversee operational property management including service charge budgeting, expenditure control, reconciliations, and facilities management oversight.
* Monitor asset and portfolio performance against KPIs, benchmarks, and financial forecasts, taking proactive action to drive continuous improvement.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with tenants, clients, stakeholders, and professional partners, ensuring exceptional service and timely communication.
* Ensure compliance with health & safety, statutory obligations, environmental standards, insurance requirements, and company procedures across all managed assets.
* Provide accurate, timely, and transparent reporting to clients and senior leadership covering operational, financial, and strategic asset performance.
* Manage contractor and supplier relationships, ensuring efficient procurement, contract oversight, and adherence to lease requirements.
* Lead, mentor, and support junior property managers and operational staff, contributing to team development and professional excellence.
Primary Responsibilities
* Develop, implement, and monitor asset management initiatives that enhance rental income, reduce costs, extend lease terms, and improve tenant retention.
* Undertake regular property inspections, ensuring compliance, safety, and proactive identification of risks or opportunities.
* Oversee tendering processes, major works plans, FM contractor performance, and day-to-day operational management.
* Ensure accuracy of service charge budgets, year-end accounts, insurance valuations, and service charge compliance.
* Manage critical lease event diaries, ensuring timely action and strategic preparation for negotiations or lease restructuring.
* Lead on occupier engagement, resolving issues professionally and maintaining positive, constructive landlord–tenant relationships.
* Work collaboratively with other departments including Facilities Management, Building Surveying, and Finance, to deliver integrated solutions.
* Represent Re:volve professionally at client meetings, site visits, and industry events, identifying business development opportunities where appropriate.
Person Specification (Qualifications Education and Role Specification)
* MRICS qualified (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience in commercial property and/or asset management.
* Strong commercial acumen with a proven ability to analyse asset performance, interpret market conditions, and deliver strategic recommendations.
* Demonstrable experience managing multi-let commercial assets, service charge operations, and FM/contractor oversight.
* Excellent negotiation and communication skills, including experience handling lease events and tenant engagement.
* Experienced team leader with track record of managing and developing junior professionals.
* Highly organised, proactive, and self-motivated with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
* Advanced IT literacy with proficiency in property management systems and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel for financial modelling and analysis.
Knowledge and Expertise
* In-depth understanding of commercial property management, asset management principles, and landlord & tenant legislation.
* Strong working knowledge of market drivers, investment valuation, lease structures, and portfolio performance metrics.
* Experience managing service charges, capital expenditure planning, and major works programmes.
* Strong understanding of building compliance including H&S, fire safety, statutory inspections, and environmental standards.
* Capable of building effective working relationships with clients, occupiers, contractors, and colleagues across multiple disciplines.
* Track record of delivering results through proactive management, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery, making this hybrid role highly effective and unique.
Company and Department Overview
Re:volve Real Estate is a dedicated team of chartered surveyors and experienced property professionals focused on enhancing property asset performance for clients. We deliver a bespoke, focused service ensuring that assets under management continue to evolve and perform at optimum levels. No asset should ever 'stand still,' and it is this ethos that sets us apart from our competitors.
Offering a director-led service, Re:volve has an approachable and experienced team committed to providing an exceptional level of service to all our clients. Services offered include property management, asset management, service charge consultancy for landlords and occupiers, and comprehensive building surveying and project management.
The Property and Asset Management team within Re:volve delivers core managing agent services to clients, such as building and facilities management, service charge operation, and property management/core surveying activity. It is a large, multi-disciplinary team, forming the largest division in Re:volve.
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