Cadent Gas Ltd
Commercial Property Officer
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Base Location: Hybrid between Cadent’s Head Office near Coventry (CV7 9JU) and home - typically 1-2 days per week in the office with occasional travel to Slough office (SL2 5NA). This role offers flexibility while maintaining close collaboration with colleagues, stakeholders, and suppliers across our property portfolio.
Supporting property. Enabling delivery.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Cadent's Property Team. In this role, you'll provide comprehensive administrative, governance, and coordination support across our commercial property portfolio, helping to ensure our estates, projects, contractors, and property services are managed efficiently, compliantly, and cost-effectively. Working closely with senior property stakeholders, you'll play a key role in maintaining critical property information, supporting project delivery, coordinating governance activities, and driving continuous improvement across the Estates and Projects function.
Why you'll love this role
- Be at the centre of Estate and Projects day-to-day operations. Support the effective management of Cadent's commercial property portfolio, ensuring key activities, records, and stakeholder requirements are coordinated and delivered efficiently.
- Own critical property data and reporting. Produce accurate reports, dashboards, and management information covering property costs, utilisation, leases, and project activity to support informed decision-making.
- Support strategic property projects. Help coordinate project governance, approvals, documentation, and reporting through the property life cycle, enabling successful delivery of property initiatives across the business.
- Develop broad commercial property experience. Gain exposure to estates management, leases, contractor governance, and capital projects within a large, regulated organisation.
- Build influential relationships. Work closely with senior stakeholders, project teams, contractors, suppliers, and colleagues, internal and external, to support delivery and continuous improvement.
- Drive efficiency and value. Identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce costs, and enhance the effectiveness of property services across the portfolio.
- Support compliance and governance. Help maintain statutory documentation, contractor records, and governance processes to ensure regulatory and corporate requirements are met.
- Make a real impact. Play a key role in ensuring property information, systems, and processes support the successful operation of Cadent's estate.
What you'll bring
- Commercial Property Administration Experience with experience supporting commercial property, estates, facilities management, or property project functions.
- Lease & Property Knowledge including experience maintaining lease records, monitoring lease events, landlord details, service charges, and associated property documentation.
- Project Support Experience with an understanding of project delivery environments, supporting Project Managers, and maintaining project records, governance documentation, and reporting.
- Data Management & Attention to Detail with the ability to review property documentation, extract key information, and maintain accurate records across multiple systems and trackers.
- Reporting & Analysis Skills with experience producing reports, dashboards, and management information for stakeholders.
- Organisation & Prioritisation with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and competing demands while maintaining high levels of accuracy.
- Stakeholder Management Skills with the confidence to build effective working relationships with colleagues, suppliers, contractors, and senior stakeholders.
- Commercial Awareness with an understanding of property-related costs, supplier management, and business objectives.
- Systems & Technology Skills including strong Microsoft Office capabilities, particularly Excel. Experience of SAP and Ariba would be advantageous.
- Customer Focus with a proactive approach to delivering excellent service and support.
- Full UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel as required.
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Qualifications & Experience
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Professional qualification in Administration, Estates Management, or a related discipline (desirable).
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience of SAP, Ariba, or similar business systems desirable.
- Experience within a regulated business environment would be beneficial.
- Corporate Real Estate experience or exposure would be advantageous.
Ready to develop your commercial property career? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team that plays a vital role in managing Cadent's property portfolio and supporting projects that enable the safe and efficient operation of our business. If you're highly organised, detail-oriented, and have experience within commercial property, estates, facilities management, or project support, we'd love to hear from you.
At Cadent, you'll have the opportunity to develop your expertise, build valuable stakeholder relationships, and make a meaningful contribution to the management and improvement of one of the UK's largest utility property portfolios.
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Disclaimer: While the closing date is set as mentioned, we reserve the right to close the application process earlier if necessary, depending on the unique circumstances of each role.
At Cadent, we’re thrilled to be part of the future of UK energy!
We have a clear roadmap to drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.
We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together, we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers, whom we put at the heart of everything we do.
What’s In It for You
Here at Cadent, we recognise that our people are truly unsung heroes. Quietly confident, delivering every day - that’s why we’re committed to supporting our people to get the best out of themselves. For this role, we offer:
- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- An extra day off each year to celebrate life’s special moments
- Career development with funded learning options
- Flexible working and strong ED&I commitments
- Generous family policies and flexible benefits
- Retail discounts, gym access, and more
We support a healthy work-life balance and are open to flexible working options.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every requirement? No problem! If you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – you may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent.
We value diversity and are committed to being an equitable employer. Our employee communities – Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability), the Cadent Military Community, the Grief Awareness Community, and the Men's Engagement Network (M.E.N) – can’t wait to welcome you!
As a proud Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process and we will ensure that support is provided.
What’s next?
To be considered for this role, please submit your application with an up-to-date CV and our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch soon. To learn more about Cadent, visit our website at Home - Cadent Gas Ltd
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