Date:March, 2025

Vacancy: Office Administrator – Birmingham

Office Administrator – Birmingham

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Managing the reception area and handling correspondence such as phone calls, emails, and packages.
  • Assisting each department in day-to-day admin duties, including but not limited to insurance, utilities, business rates, and property management.
  • Handling the Health and Safety compliance for a large portfolio of properties and tenants. This includes requesting certificates from tenants and updating records and databases accordingly.
  • Managing entry of leases and other documents onto the shared system, and ensuring all files are up to date.
  • Taking property enquiries and passing them onto the relevant department and following up enquiries to ensure all are responded to.
  • General filing, archiving, and scanning of documents.

 

Skills and Aptitudes:

  • Excellent communication, organization and teamwork skills
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft apps such as Outlook and Excel
  • Knowledge of SharePoint & QuickBooks would be an advantage but not essential as training will be given
  • Good attention to detail
  • Reasonable mathematical skills
  • Proactive attitude
  • Excellent opportunity for progression for the right candidate

 

Experience:

  • Experience in busy office environment with large volume of activities
  • Experience in handling large volume of correspondence
  • Liaising activities and transactions for multiple sites and properties for helping management and staff in operations
  • Experience in data entry and archiving of documents
Salary starting at £24,000 depending on experience.

To apply, please email your CV to enquiries@westerntrading.co.uk

Date:March, 2025

Vacanacy: Asset Manager – Birmingham

Asset Manager – Birmingham

About the Role:

Join a well-established commercial property group with over 40 years of success in Birmingham City Centre. We are seeking an experienced Asset Manager to oversee a diverse portfolio of commercial and residential properties. This role focuses on optimizing financial performance, enhancing tenant satisfaction, and driving asset value growth. You will be responsible for strategic asset management, lease negotiations, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring efficient operational performance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage a mixed-use commercial portfolio, including warehouses, industrial sites, land, and retail properties.
  • Develop and implement strategies to maximize asset value and performance.
  • Oversee lease negotiations, rent reviews, and dilapidations, identifying revenue-generating opportunities.
  • Monitor the financial performance of estates, including debt collection and service charge management.
  • Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with external agencies, legal teams, surveyors, and public bodies.
  • Identify and execute opportunities for asset improvement and portfolio expansion.

About You:

  • Proven experience in property portfolio or asset management.
  • Strong knowledge of Landlord & Tenant Law, lease management, and property legislation. 
  • Excellent financial, negotiation, and communication skills.
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple properties and stakeholders. 
  • Proactive and results-driven, thriving in a fast-paced environment.

What We Offer:

  • Competitive salary with opportunities for career progression.
  • Free city centre parking.

To apply, please email your CV to enquiries@westerntrading.co.uk.