Metropolitan Police
Deputy Director - Workplace Services
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Deputy Director of Workplace Services
The Metropolitan Police Service are seeking an exceptional Deputy Director of Workplace Services for a 6-month initial contract to join their Property Services Directorate, providing strategic leadership across one of the UK's largest, most complex, and operationally critical estates portfolios.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Property Services Director, this is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of workplace services across a diverse property portfolio that supports frontline policing and public safety across London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead strategic asset management, hard and soft facilities management, estate management, specialist real estate operations, and the management of significant outsourced service contracts.
- Provide leadership for major Public Finance Initiative (PFI) arrangements as they approach key transition milestones over the coming years.
- Establish robust governance, performance management, and assurance frameworks.
- Drive accountability and ensure services remain customer-focused, efficient, and resilient.
The Team
Property Services is responsible for managing and maintaining a large and diverse estate portfolio that supports operational policing, corporate functions, and specialist facilities. The Workplace Services function provides strategic leadership across technical facilities management, soft facilities management, specialist estate services, asset management, and outsourced service delivery arrangements.
The Role
As Deputy Director, Workplace Services, you will be responsible for developing and delivering the strategic direction for workplace services across the MPS estate. Working closely with executive stakeholders, operational policing teams, and external partners, you will ensure the organisation continues to provide safe, compliant, and high-performing workplace environments.
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You will provide executive leadership across asset management, facilities management, estate management, and supply chain operations. This will include acting as the senior intelligent client for outsourced service providers, driving accountability, and ensuring services remain customer-focused, efficient, and resilient.
The role will also lead strategic decision-making on asset investment, maintenance planning, and long-term estate stewardship. You will oversee complex commercial contracts, manage strategic supplier relationships, and lead preparations for future operating models as existing PFI arrangements near expiry. Working at an executive level, you will provide advice and assurance to senior leadership teams while contributing to wider organisational transformation programs and the development of future estate strategies.
Benefits
- Competitive executive-level package
- Flexible working arrangements
- Access to excellent pension benefits
- Opportunity to play a significant leadership role in shaping the future of policing infrastructure across London
Essential Criteria
- Extensive leadership and management experience within the property, estates, facilities management, or construction sectors.
- Demonstrable experience managing large and complex estates portfolios of a comparable scale, including operational, corporate, and specialist facilities.
- Experience overseeing maintenance, compliance, and facilities management contracts valued at up to approximately £60m per annum.
- Proven ability to lead complex supply chains, outsourced service providers, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong commercial acumen, including procurement, contract management, supplier performance, and governance.
- Experience leading significant organisational change and transformation programs.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at executive and board level.
- Experience operating within a public sector, highly regulated, or security-sensitive environment.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making capabilities.
- Degree educated or able to demonstrate equivalent senior leadership experience within a large, complex organization.
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Desirable Criteria
- Professional qualification or chartered status in Property, Real Estate, Construction, Facilities Management, or a related discipline.
- Experience of Public Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts and outsourced service delivery frameworks.
- Experience acting as a senior intelligent client within complex outsourced operating models.
- Experience leading specialist estate portfolios, including operationally sensitive or secure facilities.
- Experience of data-led estate performance management and digital service delivery environments.
If this sounds like the ideal opportunity for your skills and experience, apply now and help shape the future of workplace services for one of the world's most recognized police organizations.
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