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Office Lead, Building Surveying
Built Asset Solutions | Edinburgh
Permanent | Full-time | Hybrid
About This Opportunity
We are searching for a growth-minded, management level chartered building surveyor to join our Edinburgh office.
You will be a proven work-winning professional with excellent interpersonal skills and sound commercial understanding. This is an exciting challenge for a motivated building surveyor to enhance your career and make an impact in the region and on our Built Asset Solutions offering. Support, guidance, and resources will be on hand from a collaborative team of industry experts to enable your success.
Joining us as an office lead, you will shape, grow, and lead our Building Surveying offering to become a market leader as the discipline lead for our growing Edinburgh office.
This role is a chance to take your career to the next level, managing and growing a business through a combination of new and existing business growth, brand growth through networking and marketing, team development & management, plus delivery of current and future commissions.
You will work collaboratively with our established Glasgow building surveying team, as well as cost and project management colleagues in our Edinburgh office. You will have opportunities to leverage existing relationships and partnerships to generate new workstreams.
You will work with built asset solutions colleagues across M&E design, Geomatics, Retrofit AutoCAD/BIM and FM Solutions to produce winning, bespoke proposals for local, regional, and national clients, and play a key role in leading delivery of commissions for the Edinburgh office.
Responsibilities
- Strategy, planning, and delivery of business unit objectives, and optimize growth through proactive business development
- Actively identifying new business development opportunities and optimizing business unit growth
- Ensuring that projects are managed in accordance with Gleeds processes and procedures (governance and controls)
- Agreeing fees and charges for potential services with Business Unit Manager / Area Chair
- Agreeing appointments / scope of services. Ensuring that appointments are in place prior to commencing service delivery
- Delivering high-quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our customer’s requirements;
- Managing and maintaining customer relationships and resolving any customer complaints
- Ensuring sufficient resources are made available to deliver services on our projects
- Leading and managing teams, including performance management, mentoring, professional & personal development
- Developing and enhancing Gleeds Building Surveying capability
- Preparing bids for services
- Managing the commercial aspects of projects (e.g., scope of services/deliverables, invoices, payments, and debt management)
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Benefits
As a member of Gleeds Built Asset Solutions you will benefit from:
- Excellent career development opportunities
- A comprehensive employee benefits provision
- Autonomy and ownership of your role and remit
- Access to support, guidance, and professional development
- A collaborative, innovative, and agile operational model
- Joining a national multi-disciplinary team of built asset experts
Who we’re looking for:
Experience, Knowledge And Key Skills
- Extensive practical post-qualification experience delivering building surveying services within a professional consultancy environment
- Sound practical knowledge of construction methods and materials;
- Excellent knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies;
- Comprehensive knowledge and practical experience of administering construction contracts;
- Ability to motivate others (including providing support and encouragement);
- Effective, growth-minded team leadership, management, and mentoring experience
- Proficient and proactive networker
- Ability to prepare winning bids for services;
- Competent at negotiating sufficient fees to both complete services and generate required profit levels;
- A clear understanding of legislation impacting on construction contracts;
- Demonstrable evidence of delivering services to clients, managing client relationships, and interfacing with board / c-suite stakeholders
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Qualifications
- MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)
About us
Gleeds is a global property and construction consultancy with over 150 years of expertise, operating in 28 countries worldwide. From iconic landmarks to critical infrastructure, we drive innovation, sustainability, and value, delivering transformative projects that shape communities and redefine the built environment.
Gleeds is committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected and valued. We uphold the principles of Fairness, Inclusion, and Respect (FIR) and embrace the diversity of our teams. As an equal opportunities employer, we provide support, flexibility, and accessibility for all. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact our Talent Team at [email protected]
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