Property & Surveying Director | £300k Biller | Team & Business Leader

A highly experienced Built Environment recruiter and current Business Director with an unusually broad combination of personal billing, business development, people leadership and operational management.

With almost 10 years with the same major recruitment organisation, the candidate has progressed through Trainee, Consultant, Manager, Senior Manager and Director promotions based on performance, graduating from a high-performing Blue Collar Temp Desk producing £200K from 50TW to running an entire office, covering, developing, training and managing all techncial divisions while guilding the business through all the COVID and post COVID highs and lows.

Today, personal recruitment activity centres around Building Surveyors, Project Managers and Cost Consultancy professionals, alongside leadership of a six-person technical recruitment team covering disciplines including Architecture, Building Services and Civil & Structural Engineering.

Despite Director-level management responsibilities, this remains a genuinely commercial, billing leader who has become frustrated by corporate politics, restrictions and slow adaption to emerging trends. Despite these frustrations, this is somsone who's loyalty has probably kept them a little too long.

The question now is whether the next stage of that career could offer something a large corporate environment increasingly cannot: greater autonomy, genuine influence over business decisions, stronger financial reward and the opportunity to create an ownership stake in the value being built.

The ideal next step is a senior role within an established independent recruitment business where the candidate can initially combine significant personal production with responsibility for an existing team.

The preference would be to inherit a credible Property / Surveying operation and build it further, rather than starting completely from zero. A base rather than a fully established business.

Surveying and Property represent the strongest current network and preferred market, although the breadth of previous Construction experience means the right wider Built Environment opportunity would also be considered.

The business itself is particularly important.

Ideally it will have:

This is not simply a search for a Director title, this has already been achieved. This is receptivity to opportunities to become more influential in a smaller, ambitious business than is possible within a large corporate structure.

Initially, the role should remain that of a Billing Director, personally producing while managing and developing the team.

Longer term, the ambition is to transition towards a more strategic leadership position: building a significant division, reducing personal billing as the team scales, participating in the wider management of the business and ultimately becoming an equity-holding Director.