Head of Commercial Property

My client is an established firm of solicitors based in the heart of Stoke-on-Trent specialising in a wide range of commercial work for owner-managed businesses and specialist private client work. Is recruiting for a Head of Commercial Property. We have been providing a first-class service to our clients since 2005. With more than 400 people including over 100 lawyers across offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent.

Do you want to join a brilliant team and make a positive difference to our clients? Are you ambitious and motivated? Are you personable, conscientious, and well-organised? Do you want to be part of a vibrant growing business?

*Hybrid / working from home including provision of home office equipment*

Overview:

As a head of the Commercial Property team, you will lead and support the growth and development of the team, as well as being actively involved in marketing the business and the department. You will motivate and supervise others, as well as running your own caseload.

To be successful in this role you will need to be self-motivated, commercially minded and have good people skills.

Key Qualifications:

* Qualified solicitor or equivalent.

* 7+ years post-qualification experience in commercial property.

Key activities:

* Manage a varied caseload of commercial property cases, including leasehold and freehold transactions.

* Provide inspirational leadership to your people.

* Communicate within your people and across the rest of the business to develop a cohesive, positive team environment. Requires strong diplomacy skills to build a consensus. Able to articulate issues and make clear recommendations to the Board.

* Grow and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price.

* Assist and supervise your people. Use the financial and case management reporting to monitor, manage and predict to make sure the department is fully and adequately resourced to deliver a quality service, identifying where you need more resource, where you can allocate resource differently, and where you can reduce resource if appropriate, and do this in a timely way to make sure our client service is not negatively impacted.

Technical advice. Develop, maintain and appropriately use your technical expertise and the expertise across your team to help find answers to questions. Assist the residential property team with more complicated or unusual transactions.

Support your people through the continuous evolution of the property market and our ways of working; you will support them as our processes and offerings develop and evolve, helping articulate and understand the why of change and what good looks like.

Client focus. Develop and foster a client-focussed culture where your team see the client experience as equally important to the legal expertise.

To share knowledge and actively participate in the training and development of your people. Create an environment where complaints create opportunities to learn as opposed to an opportunity criticise or ignore. You will foster excellent relations with COLP and work in partnership to drive continuous improvement.

Financial control. Be responsible for formulating the department budget and to monitor work in progress and ensuring credit control procedures are followed. To review your people’s performance against financial targets. Work with our Finance team to forecast billing and workflow as accurately as possible.

Key capabilities:

Knowledgeable: Able to run and supervise others with a commercial property caseload.

Commercial: Able to build and maintain a client base by providing advice clients need at an appropriate price. To manage your people to deliver to financial targets.

Team player: Able to build relationships with your team, across the business and across the group.

Organised: Able to organise yourself and the others you are working with and supporting.

Practical: Able to listen, to manage expectations and deliver results.,

Calm: Calm under pressure – people will come to you with what they consider to be a crisis.

IT literate : Competent and comfortable with technology e.g. use of case management systems, Outlook, Excel and Word .

What’s in it for you:

* Competitive basic salary

* 25 days holiday (Including bank holidays)

* Referral bonus

* Pension plan

* Life insurance

* Employee Assistance Programme

* Hybrid / working from home including provision of home office equipment.

* Access to training academy courses

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you, do please send your CV to Julie O’Leary at PP Associates to view and call to discuss