Portfolio Delivery Lead
Advert Close date: Wednesday 7th May 2025
Portfolio Delivery Lead at The Crown Estate
Purpose of Role:
The Crown Estate are recruiting two Portfolio Delivery Lead roles; one for St James's Market and one for Regent Street. The Portfolio Delivery Lead is responsible for driving the successful delivery of diverse and complex projects within The Crown Estate's Development pipeline. This includes managing projects in the St James’s or Regent Street portfolios in London, with a total value of approximately £1 billion. The role focuses on ensuring consistent construction and project management practices, maximizing financial, social, and environmental value through best practices and innovation.
Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities:
As a Portfolio Delivery Lead, you will play a critical role in scaling up delivery, quality, and project management capabilities within a dynamic environment undergoing comprehensive transformation. You will work closely with Development teams to ensure excellence in construction and project management, focusing on procurement strategies, supply chain engagement, programme management, quality assurance, and health and safety outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Overseeing project management and delivery strategy implementation to meet goals and milestones.
- Supporting the execution of business plans with short, medium, and long-term forecasts.
- Embedding a safety-first culture across all real estate activities.
- Ensuring risk management protocols and security resilience are in place for all development projects.
- Driving the delivery of environmental sustainability goals, including net zero and decarbonization targets.
- Enhancing customer focus to ensure The Crown Estate is viewed as a partner of choice.
- Managing cross-functional project teams and influencing successful outcomes.
- Developing and evolving delivery and project management capabilities.
- Leading the Portfolio Pipeline reporting requirements and representing The Crown Estate at industry events.
- Promoting skills and training initiatives within service partnerships and supply chains.
Most Important Skills Based Requirements:
To excel in this role, you should have:
- Extensive experience in senior delivery, construction, and programme management roles within complex and diverse business environments.
- A proven track record of leading major development projects, including new builds and refurbishments.
- Expertise in managing supply chain relationships and influencing successful outcomes across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of health and safety regulations and best practices in real estate project delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver mixed-use, multi-site major projects and manage risks effectively.
- Excellent financial management and commercial awareness.
- Professional qualifications in construction management, engineering, or a related field, with membership in relevant industry bodies.
- Exceptional negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong leadership capabilities, with experience in coaching and mentoring teams.
- A commitment to sustainability and innovation in project delivery.
Join The Crown Estate and be part of a team that is shaping the future of urban development with a focus on sustainability, innovation, and excellence. Apply now to make a significant impact in a prestigious and dynamic environment.
Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
- Department
- Urban
- Locations
- The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market
Our Perks & Benefits
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28 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
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Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
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Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
It’s our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong.
A workplace where you’re empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential.
About The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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