About the Role
Fora is redefining the workplace experience and seeks a commercially-minded Senior Property Manager to oversee a growing portfolio of managed and leased buildings. This new role is responsible for property performance, service charge governance, landlord partnerships, contractual compliance, and operational excellence, ensuring buildings perform commercially while delivering an exceptional member experience.
Responsibilities
- Own a portfolio of commercially managed properties.
- Lead relationships with landlords, managing agents, and management agreement partners.
- Ensure contractual obligations, service standards, and reporting requirements are met.
- Support the mobilization of new properties and continuous portfolio improvement.
- Take ownership of service charge management across the portfolio.
- Review, analyze, and challenge landlord service charge budgets and reconciliations.
- Develop and manage internal service charge models where Fora provides shared services.
- Identify cost risks, efficiencies, and opportunities for commercial improvement.
- Partner with Finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Produce clear reporting on service charge performance, risks, and trends.
- Support quarterly business reviews and partner reporting.
- Ensure robust governance, compliance, and financial accuracy.
- Act as the key escalation point for landlord-related issues.
- Manage risks, resolutions, and stakeholder communications.
- Coordinate internal teams to deliver against partner commitments.
- Build strong relationships across Operations, Facilities, Partnerships, and Asset Management.
- Ensure property management decisions support exceptional member experiences.
- Champion operational excellence, service quality, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
- Balance commercial performance with service delivery and workplace standards.
Requirements
- Significant experience in commercial property management.
- Strong expertise in service charge budgeting, analysis, and reconciliation.
- Experience working with landlords, managing agents, investors, and asset managers.
- Understanding of management agreements, leases, and property obligations.
- Strong financial acumen and confidence interpreting budgets and reporting.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The ability to manage competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience within flexible workspace, serviced office, hospitality-led, or multi-let commercial environments (Desirable).
- Experience producing board-level reports and quarterly business reviews (Desirable).
- Professional qualification such as RICS, IWFM, IRPM, or equivalent (Desirable).
Skills
- Commercial property management
- Service charge budgeting
- Service charge analysis
- Service charge reconciliation
- Landlord relations
- Managing agent relations
- Investor relations
- Asset management
- Contractual compliance
- Financial reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Risk management
- Problem-solving
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Professional qualification such as RICS, IWFM, IRPM or equivalent (Desirable)
Benefits
- Core working hours with flexibility
- Two weeks ‘Work from Anywhere’
- 28 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- 5% matched pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Discounted gym membership
- Health cash plan
- Mental wellbeing support
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- 25% off at Fora cafés
- 2 x volunteer days / year
About the Company
- Fora reimagines the workplace, creating inspiring, design-led spaces that blend hospitality, community, and wellbeing.
- With over 20 years of experience, Fora has grown to 60+ locations across the UK, supporting 30,000+ members and partnering with brands like Ocado, The British Fashion Council, and Pangaia.
- Backed by The Office Group, Blackstone, and Brockton Capital, Fora is growing fast and pioneering conscious design, sustainable construction, and empowering workspaces.
- Fora is shaping the future of work.
