Halfords

About us

At Halfords, our mission is to inspire and support a lifetime of motoring and cycling. As a specialist retailer, we lead the market through customer-driven innovation and a distinct product range. We are dedicated to providing our customers with an integrated, unique, and convenient service experience—from e-bike and electric vehicle servicing to on-demand solutions. Our commitment is to foster customer loyalty by offering compelling reasons to keep coming back to our stores and Autocentres, ensuring a lifetime of motoring and cycling enjoyment.

The teams at our Support Centre work with every other area of our business, putting them at the heart of the action and playing a key role in our success and growth. Everyone brings their individual knowledge and experience to work every day, working as one team to keep things moving smoothly.

If you’re willing to  get stuck in, you’ll love it here too. So put yourself at the heart of a dynamic, fast-paced working environment where expertise and focus take people far.

About the role

As the Estate Surveyor for the North of England & Scotland, you will be responsible for a portfolio of circa 250 Autocentres, supporting the implementation of the property portfolio strategy to effectively serve the customers of the Halfords Group.

You'll play a key role in ensuring all property costs are minimised, high quality estate management practices are maintained, properties are correctly sized and located to meet our customer needs and the people, data, supplier and process management is effective.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the annual budgeting process and ensure that your own property costs are managed within agreed budgets.
• Acting alone and utilising external consultants, manage the day to portfolio management activities including rent reviews, lease renewals, estate management issues, relocations, rightsizes, re-gears and acquisitions.
• Support in the preparation of relevant reports and documentation required to support any changes to Opex or required capital expenditure.
• Be responsible for the required databases to support and enable the day-to-day workload and effective processing of payments. Ensure high quality estate management processes are maintained by the whole team.
• Working with landlords, agents and our external suppliers ensure the provision of the correct location, format and size of property to optimise sales and minimise cost.
• Be pro-active in the management and disposal of sublet space, surplus space and non-trading properties as required.
• Negotiate all property transactions in a commercial and timely manner and to obtain the best terms available.

Skills & Experience

• Ideally minimum 2/3 years RICS PQE or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience of lease renewal negotiations with a good grasp of the L&T 1954 Act.
• Experience of all aspects of estate management including rent reviews.
• Experience of a large multi-site commercial organisation preferred.
• Must have full UK driving licence.
• Good geographical knowledge of the North of England & Scotland.

Not sure you meet all the criteria? We'd encourage you to take the wheel and apply anyway! At Halfords we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. We're an equal opportunities employer and proud to welcome applications from all backgrounds and embrace diversity within our one Halfords Family.