Berkeley Group Plc
Senior Estates Manager
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Department: Estates
Location: Vauxhall, London
Description
Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.
We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.
Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead, support and develop the Estates Team, providing day-to-day management of the Estates Coordinator, setting clear priorities, reviewing workload, and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across all estates functions.
- Act as the first escalation point for complex estate issues, including operational defects, design concerns, compliance queries, lease/TP1 interpretations, statutory risks and managing agent performance challenges.
- Manage a portfolio of high-complexity or higher-risk developments, ensuring robust mobilisation, structured handovers, comprehensive inspections, statutory compliance, life-safety system verification and performance monitoring of managing agents and third-party operators.
- Provide expert oversight on managing agents, including detailed review of service charge budgets and accounts, staffing models, procurement strategies, PPM schedules, and CAPEX planning to ensure alignment with lease/TP1 requirements and long-term building needs.
- Oversee Building Safety compliance, including supporting Safety Case File preparation, golden thread information management, competent person documentation, fire risk actions, resident engagement obligations, and ensuring managing agents are meeting Building Safety Act responsibilities.
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What You'll Bring
- Extensive estates and leasehold management experience, with advanced understanding of TP1s, head leases, estate structuring, service charge governance and the operational management of complex residential or mixed-use developments.
- Deep managing agent experience, including appointment, performance management, challenge, compliance scrutiny, and strong working knowledge of statutory inspection regimes, PPM requirements and industry best practice.
- Strong leadership and coaching ability, with experience developing junior team members, setting direction, ensuring quality control and supporting a high-performing Estates function.
- Advanced technical understanding, including ability to interpret building services information, O&M manuals, fire strategies, M&E systems, statutory certificates, asset registers and handover documentation.
- Building Safety expertise, including understanding of Safety Case principles, golden thread requirements, building risk assessments, competent person management, fire safety actions, and the interaction between developers, accountable persons and managing agents.
- Confident communication and problem-solving skills, capable of managing escalations, engaging with senior stakeholders, influencing managing agents and providing authoritative guidance across operational, technical and customer-focused matters.
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Why join us?
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
- Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
- Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
- Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
- Private pension plan.
- Group life assurance.
The standard default full-time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.
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