Director, Rating

Dunlop Heywood (part of the Leaders Romans Group) are looking for a Rating Director to join us on a permanent basis.

Dunlop Heywood are a commercial property consultancy with offices based in London, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne, York, Belfast and Cardiff.

Our client list includes, among others: Aviva Investors, Peel Energy, Peel (Land & Property), Peel Ports, Port of Dover, Asda Stores, Travis Perkins PLC, NewRiver Retail, Speedy Hire PLC, Dublin Airport Authority, Glasgow Airport, Newcastle International Airport, South Tyneside Council, Leeds Bradford Airport, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Welsh Power.

We are always looking for individuals that are driven, creative and ambitious to succeed.

The Role

Dunlop Heywood’s Rating team has enjoyed substantial profitable growth with opportunity for key individuals to progress their careers. We are now looking to accelerate growth of our business across the UK through our London and regional offices.

Dunlop Heywood’s primary focus is on Niche Sectors. We have a significant presence within the Airports, Ports, Energy, Leisure & Hospitality sectors. Our current rating team consists of experienced specialists in the R&E & Contractors based valuation models. We are seeking to add to this Specialist team with an individual of a similar background and experience. We advise clients occupying landmark properties across the UK and Ireland.

The role is to progress instructions already held by the business and to work in conjunction with our business development team to develop the business further and expand our dominance in our selected sectors.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate experience in progressing rating appeals to Valuation Tribunal across a range of property types, in particular R&E and Contractors based valuations.

Ideal Candidate

The requirement is for a qualified MRICS rating surveyor with significant experience with Receipts & Expenditure and Contractor’s Basis rating valuations. You will hold a full UK driving licence and you will be able to demonstrate:

Experience of appeal work on diverse property portfolios, throughout the UK.

• Experience of infrastructure type properties such as energy, airports and ports.

• The ability to provide clear rating advice to ratepayers.

• Experience of working in a team; you are a team player.

• Good communication, organisation and negotiation skills.

• Ambition and looking to develop a successful reputation within a leading Rating Consultancy

Working Hours

Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:30pm

By joining Leaders Romans Group as a Ratings Director, some of the benefits you can expect to receive are:

• Competitive salary
• 22 days annual leave (plus bank holidays increasing by 1 day each year up to an additional 5 days of leave
• 
  LRG Extras – staff discounts with a wide range of retailers
• Free 24 hours employee assistance programmes
• Staff discount on property and financial services
• Salary sacrifice pension
• Eye care vouchers
• Family friendly Maternity, Adoption, Paternity and parental bereavement policies
• Regular award and recognition prizes to be won
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £400
• Support and investment on gaining professional qualifications to encourage your long terms goals

The opportunity to be a Ratings Director here at LRG isn’t to be missed so apply today!

Should you have anymore questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact our recruitment team on 01903 890047 or email us via recruitment@lrg.co.uk.

Due to a high volume of applications received, we are unable to contact each applicant individually regarding the status of their application

We do not accept speculative CV’s from agencies.