Huddersfield’s towns and valleys weave together vibrant, young, dynamic communities with breath-taking Yorkshire landscape. The Kirklees area has built on its proud industrial heritage by being a place that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district which combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life - leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives. As we strive to deliver fantastic services to our residents, we want to attract the very best people to help deliver our vision.

This post represents an exciting, diverse and challenging opportunity to become the new Strategic Manager for Assets and Estates at Kirklees Council. You will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Asset Strategy team and the Disposals, Acquisitions and Commercial teams ensuring effective and efficient strategic and operational day to day management of the services provided by these teams. This includes development and implementation of the Council’s Asset Strategy, the management of the Council’s Commercial Estate and land portfolio and managing the response to the multitude of property related queries received by the Council in relation to its land and building assets.

We are looking for an individual who is a strong and innovative leader with proven commercial acumen and the behaviours, knowledge, and experience to influence senior stakeholders and enable transformational change. You will demonstrate all of the Council’s behaviours and expectations and continually strive for excellence. 

You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and great interpersonal skills. This post is a great opportunity for a strongly motivated individual with highly developed organisational and negotiation skills, who is prepared to work flexibly and as part of a team, in a high profile, demanding and political environment.

If this person is you then we look forward to hearing from you.

At Kirklees Council, we want to support your professional development to give you the right skills, confidence, and support to enable you to achieve your full potential. We offer a variety of courses and training designed for this purpose.

We value the importance of having a good work life balance so we offer provisions as an employer such as flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, a variety of special leave policies and employee healthcare services.

Please read the attached Job Profile and refer to the section detailing the essential and desirable criteria for this position. In your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the shortlisting criteria.

Based in Huddersfield Town Centre though currently working from home. Hybrid system of office and home working is the likely future working model. The successful candidate will be expected to travel around Kirklees as part of the remit of this role.

For more information about this post please contact David Martin on 01484 221000.

Strategic Partnership Lead - Assets & Estates (1).pdf – 192KB

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