Lexica

Property Consultancy

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Lexica is a leading specialist consultancy, transforming environments for clients in health and life sciences. Born out of the NHS in 2014 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, they are a specialist consultancy of more than 100 experts - and still growing.

Lexica are seeking a market leader within Property Consultancy who will help their clients’ organisations transform their estates, using their knowledge to analyse and address complex issues, drive increased client value, mitigate risk, and improve organisational performance. You will be responsible for providing best-in-class property consultancy advice to clients primarily in respect of asset management,and strategic property reviews to maximise value within their portfolios. Using your knowledge of the market you’ll assist the Property Consultancy team to achieve their overall business plan, developing and establishing the Lexica property consultancy service outside of London, Southeast and East Anglia. You will be joining an ideas-driven culture that embraces new perspectives to solve complex problems, with a benefits and rewards package on offer which reflects their forward thinking culture.

About Us

Meet the Team

Case Studies

Who we work with

Why Lexica

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About us

Lexica is a leading specialist consultancy, transforming environments for clients in health and life sciences. We are helping organisations to become more efficient and effective in the core sectors that we work in; whether improving patient pathways for the NHS, developing laboratories to facilitate world-leading science, or rationalising educational campuses to attract the highest calibre students and research investment. Our clients tell us that we are different from other consultancies. They know that we have a wide range of skills across the business that gives us a competitive edge over other organisations. By joining Lexica, you will be part of the journey with our clients and colleagues. Our purpose - to create better health - is the foundation of everything we do: from delivering impactful outcomes with our clients to attracting and looking after our people and contributing to our communities. What we do is important to us, but so is how we do it. Our values are the basis of how we work together and with our clients: professional, innovative, collaborative and knowledgeable. And, while we draw from diverse backgrounds and have varied experiences and skills, this shared purpose and common values are what make us a community at Lexica.

Meet the Team

We started off our journey in 2014 and are a strong, growing and dynamic team. We all come from a range of backgrounds; no story is the same which makes us so diverse.

Stephen Edgar Director

Rebecca Saxon Senior Surveyor

Rebecca Klass Senior Surveyor

Elliot Rose Associate

Jeremy Bacon Surveyor

Cara Melia Surveyor

Vivek Krishnan Graduate Surveyor

Felix Munn Graduate Surveyor

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) Estates Strategy

Barts Health NHS Trust Property Support

Approach and Outcomes For Barts’ new HQ, Lexica managed a multi-disciplinary project to source, acquire and relocate over 570 Barts staff into a flexible, sustainable, technology-driven, and collaborative modern office space, at a significantly reduced cost. The move addressed legacy issues from a 1930s listed building with ineffective floor layouts, dated building services, high running costs, poor IT infrastructure, and lack of integrated working. Lexica subsequently negotiated lease terms to achieve the most competitive market deal, advising the Trust on the most appropriate solution for their requirements and inputted into their final business case. Working closely with the Barts project delivery boards and relocation champions, Lexica’s project managers oversaw the fit-out of the space in Canary Wharf, delivering to programme and budget, and ensuring client objectives remained at the core of the project. This transformational move was delicately but robustly managed by Barts with the support of Lexica’s programme management team, ensuring that actions were completed on time and encouraging staff engagement across the whole workforce. This transformation project substantially reduced the trust’s long-term running costs, enhanced staff well- being, and fostered enhanced communication and collaboration across teams.

Approach The strategy encompassed service reconfiguration and a self-funding modernisation programme via rationalisation and disposals across the four hospital sites and 90+ community properties. In order to deliver the strategy, Lexica undertook the following: • Detailed data collection and mapping to develop and produce a Trust property database. • Extensive stakeholder engagement and workshops. • Development Controls Plans for all hospital sites aligned with supporting strategy for community assets. • Realigned priorities to benefit patients, staff and partner organisations.

Overview Lexica were instructed to complete a Strategic Estates plan for SLaM’s four hospital sites and over 90 community properties that supports their aspiration to achieve

Overview Lexica has worked closely with Barts since our inception as property advisors to support their extensive Estates Transformation Strategy. The Trust is one of the largest in the UK with a turnover of £1.2bn and a workforce of over 24,000. They operate services from a substantial property portfolio of circa 580,000 sqm across 50 buildings and four London Boroughs.

quality, world class, modern and flexible healthcare facilities.

Outcome Lexica delivered a strategy and capital programme for the Trust for the next 10+ years. The strategy ensures inherent value in the Trusts’ assets were leveraged to contribute towards a highly functional property base with 24 disposals achieved in the first two years. Following the successful implementation of the Estates Strategy, Lexica were instructed to complete a refresh of SLaM’s community estate strategy.

Lexica are currently continuing to implement feasibility studies, asset disposals, lease regularisation and move management support across the estate.

Northamptonshire County Council Property Support

Surrey County Council Agile Working – Estate Optimisation

Approach Lexica were provided with an Asset Register

Outcomes Three medium and three long term opportunities were identified by the PAN Northamptonshire Partners to support further funding OPE rounds. Each of the opportunities aligned with the One Public Estate objectives, providing co-location opportunities which in turn would allow partners to rationalise their estate in other areas. This would generate efficiencies through capital receipts and reduced running costs. Lexica is now supporting the Council to identify estate opportunities across a broader spectrum of stakeholders including the Ministry of Justice, Homes England and the Crown Estate. comprising of a full list of publicly owned properties in Northamptonshire. Lexica held three stakeholder workshops to encourage cross partner discussions which helped deliver better outcomes and meet local need through partner collaboration and sharing of existing assets, as well as establish a series of core locations across the county in terms of the delivery of future public services over the medium/long term. Over 75 opportunities were discussed in the first two workshops, including a check and challenge session to ensure appropriate opportunities were scrutinised, assessed and shortlisted. A final workshop was held with all PAN Northamptonshire Board members and wider stakeholders, summarising the key outputs from the first two workshops with each partner being able to discuss the opportunities in detail. Partners were given three votes each for their top three medium and long-term opportunities.

Overview Through One Public Estate, the PAN Northamptonshire Partnership secured funding to support the delivery of a Strategic Estates Framework.

Overview Surrey County Council were seeking advice to develop a modern, fit for purpose agile office estate and explore opportunities to co-locate with public sector partner functions. Lexica were instructed to advise in how the Council could: • Reduce overall spend on the office estate by circa £3m per year. • Reduce overall space from circa 50,000sqm to 20,000sqm. • Carbon emissions to fall from 2,600 tonnes per annum to net zero by 2030. • Engaging with staff and teams to identify future working requirements

Approach Lexica developed a workforce utilisation and space demand schedule alongside detailed property spatial model options which included identifying high level collaboration opportunities with other public sector partners. Infrastructure Solutions and the Cost Consultancy Team supported Property in the final stage of producing financial and economic models, this included: • 30-year projections (cash flow and NPV) including revenue and capital requirements. • Strawman exists/savings • High level refurbishments costs. • Running and disposal costs Outcomes Lexica provided the Council with detailed property spatial model options and financial and economic models, including a move and exit plan which detailed timelines/ costs/swing space and dependencies. Lexica are currently supporting the Council coordinate, collate and manage the key business case inputs to deliver key reductions in overall estate cost and support transformation to a modern agile working environment.

consolidation opportunities.

Some of the Organisations we work with

Why Lexica?

Our clients tell us that we are different from other consultancies. They know that we have a wide range of skills across the business that gives us a competitive edge over other advisory firms. By joining the 100+ people at Lexica, you will be part of the journey with our clients and colleagues. The mission of our property team, is to help organisations transform their Estates, using their expertise and knowledge to analyse and address complex estate issues, support operational efficiency, and help deliver and unlock estate value through strategic property reviews. We take an open-minded approach, using a range of support tools to help our clients plan for success and make the critical decisions, that will transform their organisations. Our work ranges from small one-off commissions to large-scale multi-estates development programmes. We have some longstanding client relationships, including major NHS Trusts across the South and South-West, Local Authorities, and international charities. Benefits and Rewards • 27 days annual leave with the ability to buy up to 5 more days. • 1 x CSR day p/year • Professional annual subscription • Discounted private medical care • Enhanced sickness, maternity and paternity provision • Agile and hybrid working environment • Employer contributed private pension • Life assurance • Employee Assistance Programme • Cycle to work scheme • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme • Season ticket loan • Excellent training and development opportunities

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For a comprehensive Job Description or to discuss the role confidentially, please get in touch with Lexica’s recruitment partner, The Management Recruitment Group.

Matthew Evans m: 07854 865017 e: matthew.evans@mrgpeople.co.uk Emilia Fasano m: 07851 259 868 e: emilia.fasano@mrgpeople.co.uk

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