Estates Director
Maintenance and Minor Works Manager / Estates Contracts and Compliance Manager Due to the recent appointment of a new Estates Director, they reviewed the existing estates team and identified the need for 2 management level individuals to support the Estates Director. The school had tried to directly recruit the roles before engaging with MRG. MRG conducted a specific search to ensure candidates with a more strategic approach and level of experience where engaged. The Brief To secure 2 pro-active and strategic individuals one with a maintenance bias and the other a contracts and compliance candidate, both of which would have a track record of working with in house teams and third-party contracts. The Campaign We identified and approached candidates with experience working across comparable complex estates with a combination of listed buildings, in house teams and third party specialised contracts. We utilised our extensive network of estates and facilities professionals, 10,000 plus, to show the scale and complexity of the Uppingham Estate. The Successful Candidates The successful maintenance manager was a Chartered Engineer, with experience within public sector and high profiles stadiums. The individual had passion for heritage buildings and was excited by the scale and opportunity for maintenance projects as well as the opportunity to support the Estates Director to realise the estates strategy. The Contracts and Compliance Manager was a Chartered and had extensive experience working for leading FM service providers and had a deep understanding and passion of contracts performance and implementing compliance frameworks.
The Brief Malvern were restructuring to a family of schools and centralising their estates team, they were looking for an individual to lead the estates strategy, creating a new masterplan and delivery team. The Campaign We undertook a targeted campaign, looking at those with experience within the sector, higher- education and organisations with comparable estates. We undertook a longlist review with a selection of 10 candidates from across the various sectors. The Successful Candidate The individual came from a competitor independent school and had previous experience of leading complex projects and business innovation. This presented an opportunity to develop the masterplan as well as managing the estates function for both the UK and International campuses.
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