About the Role
The Associate Director is responsible for the day-to-day running and reporting on assigned properties or clients, including service delivery, occupier liaison, service charge management, and compliance oversight.
Responsibilities
- Read, review, and understand leases and documents, ensuring occupier compliance with obligations and expectations.
- Manage a team aligned with MAPP Values.
- Engage with occupiers to improve satisfaction and retention through customer experience frameworks, forums, and placemaking initiatives.
- Be actively involved in new business pitches, tenders, or presentations.
- Manage all allocated sites, including regular inspections, monitoring, reporting, and auditing for condition, standards, and occupier compliance.
- Provide Property Management leadership, supporting asset management strategies, funding positions, and client objectives.
- Monitor statutory and internal compliance, instructing audits and assessments, and aligning with service partners.
- Support the preparation and analysis of service charge budgets, monitoring expenditure, and addressing outstanding positions.
- Provide support and due diligence for client building and site purchases.
Requirements
- Demonstrate ability to line manage property managers.
- Be confident speaking to Clients and occupiers.
- Set high standards and seek to enhance service and delivery.
- Contribute and lead team projects and new business opportunities.
- All applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK by the start date of employment.
- MAPP does not provide immigration sponsorship.
Skills
- Lease and document review
- Team management
- Occupier engagement
- Customer Experience frameworks
- New business development
- Property inspection and auditing
- Property Management leadership
- Compliance monitoring
- Service charge budget management
- Due diligence
- Exhibition of MAPP Values (Avoid Ambiguity, Appreciative, Adventurous, Authentic, Accountable)
- Self-Management (initiative, proactivity, meeting deadlines)
- Embracing Change (Technology)
- Engaging with the Big Picture
- Great service delivery
- Achieving Results and Prioritising Work
- Innovative Solutions and Problem Solving
- Developing Self and Others
- Interpersonal and Relationship skills
- Strong written and verbal communications
- Report writing
Location
- MAPP London Workspace
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
Education Level
- MRICS is desirable
Salary/Compensations
- £65,000 - £75,000 per annum
Benefits
- Employee Ownership Trust
- Profit share (potentially tax-free)
- Autonomy
- Support
- Opportunity to grow
- High engagement scores
- High recommendation as a great place to work
About the Company
- MAPP is the UK’s leading specialist in commercial property and asset management, with over £30bn+ of property under management.
- We believe property management can be a force for good, focusing on making buildings work for profit, people, and the planet.
- We use a Property Management framework for a fully integrated and holistic approach.
- MAPP is the first national real estate consultancy in the UK to become a B Corp.
- We have grown consistently over the past five years and promote around 10% of our office-based roles internally each year.
- We invest in development, create opportunities to broaden professional horizons, and make time to connect.
- MAPP is owned by an Employee Ownership Trust, with no external shareholders.
- This creates an inclusive and transparent environment where employees are informed, involved, and able to influence.
- When the business succeeds, success is shared.
- Being employee-owned encourages long-term thinking, ownership of decisions, and care about impact.
- We place a strong emphasis on trust, expecting people to use judgement, take initiative, and support one another.
- Collaboration, curiosity, and accountability are key to maintaining performance and culture.
- Our engagement scores are consistently high.
Equal Opportunity
- MAPP is an equal opportunities employer.
- We want the real estate industry to be a career path where people feel both welcome and wanted.
- We are always challenging ourselves to do better.
- We want the best people to see themselves thriving at MAPP.
- Creating an environment where everyone feels able to be themselves is essential.
- Diverse perspectives, lived experience, and ways of thinking make us stronger.
