Regional Property Manager

Function: Star Pubs
Location: Field Based in & around the North East region (Newcastle & Tyneside)
Salary: £55,000 base, depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.

Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th May 2024. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

HEINEKEN has a long-held belief that pubs are an integral part of British culture and that well-invested pubs, run by skilled operators can prosper and thrive. As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.

Part of building a better future is supporting our lessees, ensuring they have the right tools to build their businesses and play an important part in their thriving communities. This would be impossible without gold-star colleagues who care about people, account management and everything we stand for.

So let’s get straight to it. We’re on the hunt for a Regional Property Manager who will support some of our fantastic pubs and bars in the North East (Cumbria, Newcastle and Middlesbrough) areas.

“This is a pivotal role within our business. We have a dynamic team focused on delivering great service, protecting our assets and innovative solutions - who want to have fun along the way” Simon Waters, Property Controller (Star Pubs)

About the role
The Property Team is made up of 40 passionate professionals who are responsible for the care, maintenance, and improvement of around 2,400 pubs across the UK. The team play a key role in maintaining the internal and external fabric of the property portfolio, working closely with a vast range of internal stakeholders, suppliers and contractors and working with the pub tenants, lessees and operators.

The Regional Property Manager will manage the end-to-end process of the asset protection of our pubs. They will need to coordinate resources of contractors and consultants to ensure health and safety standards are maintained and that processes and procedures applied. You’ll manage budgets to maintain safe and fit-for-purpose commercial premises, as well as capital investments improving facilities in our pubs.

This role plays a critical role in keeping our properties safe for our pub operators and their customers, as well as progressively improving the condition and sustainability of them. This is done via the efficient and effective management of repairs, and planned maintenance. Customers are at the heart of this role and working with new and outgoing pub operators to enable them to understand their repair obligations the dilapidations process.

About you
This role is all about the ongoing maintenance and improvement of multiple buildings and therefore you’ll require formal qualifications in building surveying or facilities management (either RICS qualified Building Surveyor, or CIOB chartered member along with BSc in building surveying) Having experience of managing projects and repairs & maintenance across a multi-site portfolio, along with full budget control & responsibility for projects and repairs ideally in a retail environment or other similar reactive customer-focused sectors is highly desirable.

As the key elements of the role will centre around health and safety, effective management of suppliers and projects you’ll have experience of working effectively within an environment where there is a strong compliance culture, managing third parties, driving projects and navigating the complex challenges that present themselves. You’ll be a skilled communicator and proven influencer at all levels and able to demonstrate confidence and clarity and to build effective relationships.

This could be the role for you!

The Good Stuff!
In addition to your base salary, you’ll also receive:

• Annual bonus
• Company Car (Full UK License is required), Laptop & Phone
• Meal and Broadband Allowance
• Company funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double matched pension contributions (up to 10%)
• 35 days holiday (with the opportunity to buy/sell)
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers!
• Exciting opportunities to develop your career

You’ll also get the opportunity to get involved with one of our colleague networks where groups of colleagues from all over the business work together to ensure we’re always working towards being a diverse and inclusive company.

The application
If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.

Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us as recruitment@heineken.co.uk .

In all likelihood the ideal candidate for this role won’t meet every single requirement in this advert, in fact we all need the opportunity to grow and develop in role. We understand some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every single qualification. The team at HEINEKEN would encourage you to submit an application if the advert has piqued your interest rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs. You never know, you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

Who We Are
Star Pubs is part of HEINEKEN UK. The vast majority of our 2,400 pubs are leased out to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Around 160 pubs operate on our Just Add Talent model (a managed operator agreement). Our ambition is to bring out the best in the great British pub – by attracting and retaining the best operators, investing to create great pubs at the heart of their communities and providing licensees with market-leading insight and support.

Apply today to discover Your Future, Untapped.