About the Role
Support the effective delivery of business operations across the Urban Strategic Business Unit, driving consistency, efficiency, and alignment with strategic priorities. Enable the delivery of the Urban Business Plan through robust performance monitoring, commercial oversight, risk management, and governance. Strengthen reporting practices, improve business processes, and support value creation objectives.
Responsibilities
- Support delivery of the Urban Business Plan, coordinating planning activity and monitoring progress against agreed objectives, KPIs and milestones.
- Produce insightful analysis on business, portfolio and development performance, identifying trends, risks, opportunities and areas for management attention.
- Coordinate internal leadership reporting cycles, maintaining reporting timetables and working with contributors to ensure high-quality outputs are delivered on time.
- Build effective relationships across Urban teams, Group functions, joint venture partners and external stakeholders to gather, challenge and consolidate reporting inputs.
- Support joint venture and partnership business planning by coordinating reporting cycles and monitoring progress against contractual obligations, objectives and milestones.
- Act as an editorial lead for joint venture and partnership reporting, ensuring reports are accurate, cohesive, insightful and aligned to a consistent narrative.
- Provide secretariat support to joint venture boards and governance meetings, maintaining accurate records and supporting documentation.
- Support Urban content for the Annual Report and wider enterprise reporting requirements, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and aligned with corporate standards.
- Maintain governance frameworks, including reporting schedules, risk registers, action logs and decision trackers, with appropriate follow-up and escalation.
- Continuously improve reporting templates, processes and documentation to promote consistency, efficiency and best practice.
Requirements
- Experience within property, real estate and/or development, with an understanding of business operations, performance reporting or governance in a complex environment.
- Ability to interpret data, identify trends, risks and opportunities, and turn insight into practical recommendations.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines and stakeholders while maintaining attention to detail.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across internal teams, partners and external stakeholders.
- Experience coordinating inputs from multiple contributors and shaping them into coherent narratives, reports and business insights.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of business drivers, performance measures and long-term value creation.
- Sound judgement, discretion and accountability, with the ability to work effectively under pressure and respond positively to changing priorities.
- Ability to identify opportunities to enhance processes, reporting and ways of working.
Skills
- Strong analytical capability
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Confidence using Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Copilot and Microsoft 365 applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Collaborative and proactive approach
- Continuous improvement mindset
Location
- Urban
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts in the West End
- Private healthcare
- Life and critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday with the option to buy more
About the Company
- The Crown Estate's purpose is to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme.
- We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
- If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
