Advert Close date: 26th September 2025

Asset Manager – Regent Street (12 month FTC)

Purpose of Role

The Crown Estate is seeking a strategic and customer-focused Portfolio Manager to join the Regent Street team on a maternity cover basis. This role is central to delivering proactive portfolio management aligned with our annual business plan and overarching strategy. You will be responsible for the day-to-day oversight of assets, driving financial, social, and environmental value creation, and ensuring our approach remains customer-centric and innovative.

Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities

• Lead asset-level strategy and delivery of asset plans in line with business objectives.
• Manage stakeholder relationships, including joint venture partners, to support strategic goals.
• Oversee leasing activities, lease events, and small capital projects, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business parameters.
• Shape and implement customer mix strategies using consumer data, catchment analysis, and market insights.
• Monitor performance and contribute to property valuation processes.
• Support capital markets activity, including preparation of approval papers.
• Maintain portfolio-level profit and loss accountability.
• Foster strong customer relationships and ensure service excellence.
• Collaborate across teams—Operations, Customer Partnership, Development, and Capital Projects—to deliver the business plan.
• Proactively manage business risk, including health and safety, and escalate issues as needed.
• Champion innovation, agility, and empowerment in line with The Crown Estate’s values.

Most Important Skills-Based Requirements

• Experience managing diverse customer relationships and delivering value across financial and non-financial dimensions.
• Proven track record in property or real estate, with P&L responsibility and asset performance oversight.
• Experience managing mixed-use assets and working with joint venture partners (preferred).
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of value drivers.
• Skilled in report writing, presenting recommendations, and summarising complex information.
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills, including matrix reporting.
• Resilient, diplomatic, and highly motivated team player with the ability to work independently.
• Strategic planning and business planning capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract role

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