About the Role
As an Asset Manager, you'll help shape the physical future of Kensington and Chelsea, ensuring residents have safe, comfortable, and high-quality homes. This role involves diving deep into the property portfolio, turning data into improvements, and collaborating with communities, contractors, and internal teams to build a fairer, safer borough.
Responsibilities
- Ensure housing and commercial portfolios are safe, sustainable, and fit for the future.
- Champion high standards and interrogate stock condition data to shape long-term investment plans and lifecycle replacement programs.
- Monitor compliance and keep critical projects on track by working closely with contractors, consultants, and internal teams.
- Guide the wider Asset Management Strategy, shaping capital programs, building safety works, and sustainability initiatives.
- Integrate requirements for energy, fire safety, and resident safety across all programs.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with residents, tenants, and contractors to ensure excellent technical outcomes and improve satisfaction.
Requirements
- Proven experience in asset management, building surveying, construction project management, or a related property discipline.
- Ideally, a background in regulated housing or the public sector.
- Sharp ability to manipulate large asset datasets and translate complex building information into clear, practical investment choices.
- Strong grasp of compliance and building safety.
- Comfortable navigating asset databases and collaborating across diverse teams.
- Adaptable, proactive communicator who knows how to listen, build trust with stakeholders, and coordinate complex programs with great attention to detail.
- Belief in putting communities first.
- Ready to bring respect, integrity, and collaborative energy to everything you do.
Skills
- Asset management
- Building surveying
- Construction project management
- Data manipulation
- Building information translation
- Compliance
- Building safety
- Asset databases
- Team collaboration
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Program coordination
- Attention to detail
Location
- Borough (3 days a week)
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Proven experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
- New hires will start at the minimum of the advertised salary range.
- Employees receive annual salary increases until they reach the top of the pay scale.
- Employees will receive any agreed cost of living pay rises.
Benefits
- Access to professional development
- Access to cutting-edge asset systems
- Exposure to complex strategic initiatives
- Flexible working options to support wellbeing
About the Company
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- A competent and caring Council that takes pride in its work every day, ensuring services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
