Estates Manager

Up to £70,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)

Hybrid working – with occasional travel across the UK

We’re looking for an Estates Manager to join us and help to make sure we get the best value from our trading and non-trading sites across the UK. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home, the office, and occasionally traveling to our sites nationwide.

As an Estates Manager at Co-op, you’ll take responsibility for all estate management matters across your designated region. We’ll look to you to take the right property actions to protect and improve profitability. 

What you’ll do

• Deliver a first-class corporate real estate service across Co-op
• Work with senior leaders across the business to make sure our property strategy is aligned with operational needs
• Co-ordinate and manage lease renewals and rent review processes
• Manage property disposals and handle operational and non-operational property costs (e.g. rent, service charge, insurance)
• Build and maintain positive relationships with suppliers and colleagues across the business
• Provide strategic and technical input to our asset management, store refit, and new store acquisition programmes

This role would suit people who have

• A RICS surveyor qualification
• Significant experience in a similar role, managing properties across multiple sites
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Great commercial awareness, with the ability to problem-solve
• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge inclusively

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• A company car
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. 

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. 

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

Please be aware that we may close applications for this role early

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.