Job Description

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our team who can deliver clear, commercial advice and help develop the profile of our growing team.

We can provide a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated building surveyor to join our existing Building & Project Consultancy team in Cambridge. We can offer excellent prospects for advancement and personal development for those who can provide outstanding levels of quality and client care. The team structure and management is supportive and you will benefit from a wealth of knowledge and experience.  Ideally you will have a broad ranging experience of Commercial property, with some Residential experience too.

Opportunities exist within the team for you to work on a range of instructions including, among others, Contract Administration, Planned Maintenance, Due Diligence, Dilapidations, Development Monitoring, Reinstatement Cost Assessments, Condition Schedules, and Party Wall Matters. The department provides opportunities for all core services.

We would like this person to play an active role in developing existing relationships and to grow new clients and opportunities both within the business and externally.

We are looking for someone that candemonstrate Savills values and support the team in making sure collectively this is also the case – taking pride in everything you do, always acting with integrity and adopting a value add approach.

Key responsibilities;

• Ensure dedicated client focus – effective client interaction with excellent lines of communication; work to identify client needs; deliver upon commitments to clients; provide bespoke advice.
• Advise clients of their options and propose an appropriate strategy.
• Help raise the profile both internally and externally.
• Provide assistance to other departments and professionals within the office and support Savills business development wherever possible.
• Contribute to client pitches and presentations.
• Engage in business development strategies to ensure fee generation and client delivery.
• Build strong working relationships with existing clients.
• Support & empower junior members of the team..
• Build relationships internally within Savills with the view to generating new business.

People Leadership:

• Demonstrate leadership skills.
• Support the team by aligning with our business strategy and help deliver on our growth targets.
• Meet objectives in line with company/Divisional/team strategy and to measure performance against these.
• Engage in career development & training, coaching, mentoring and the promotion and succession/talent processes.
• To adhere to all company processes with regards to people management.
• Demonstrate professional behaviours at all times.
• To ensure recruitment is in line with team/divisional/company goals, thinking strategically re: future needs in line with our diversity and inclusivity goals.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong commercial acumen.
• Track record of revenue generation.
• Ability to pitch and win new business.
• Be trusted advisor to Clients.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• A strong team player with good initiative.

• Highly motivated, proactive and a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Stakeholder engagement.
• Management of complex situations.

Experience

• Proven ability to develop skills and enable personal and professional growth of individuals.
• A motivator, able to create successful team-working and individual performance and engagement.

Technical experience:-

• RICS qualified.
• Good level of technical competence with the ability to place this in a commercial context of any instruction.
• Strategic approach to problem
• Have an understanding of the fundamentals of real estate, investment and agency.