Senior Manager - Valuations & Performance Analytics

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Reporting to: Head of Performance Management

Job level: D

Contract type: Full time | Permanent

Budget responsibility: £1.3m in conjunction with Head of Performance Measurement

People responsibility: None

Advert Closing Date: 09/11/2026

Purpose of the role:

You will play a pivotal role in shaping how The Crown Estate understands and communicates portfolio performance. Working across asset classes, you’ll provide clear, actionable insight into the drivers of returns, risks and opportunities, and how assets contribute to overall performance. You will co ordinate external independent valuations, bringing constructive challenge and ensuring a robust, well governed process. You’ll also lead high-quality performance reporting and champion evidence based decision making, working closely

with Finance, SBU teams and external advisers. You will actively participate in the evolution of the Performance Measurement operating model, identify opportunities to streamline workflows, eliminate manual data inputs, drive automation and improve data transparency across the organisation. You will act as a strategic translator between external valuers, SBUs and senior leadership, converting complex valuation outputs into clear, commercial focused narrative.

Main Accountabilities

Valuation & Performance:

- Lead the governance and oversight of external valuation activity across a £13bn+ portfolio.
- Act as a senior subject matter expert on valuation, performance and portfolio insight across The Crown Estate
- Provide informed assessment and constructive challenge to our external valuation partners, ensuring full compliance with RICS and IFRS Fair Value reporting
- Provide expert guidance and constructive challenge to senior leadership on valuation outcomes, performance drivers, risks and opportunities.
- Manage external valuer appointments, including any tender processes
- Lead on our relationship with benchmarking provider MSCI, enabling accurate total return reporting across our commercial real estate assets
- Analyse holistic portfolio performance with our ‘Value Creation Framework’, advising directors and their teams on key drivers, risks, themes and contribution towards overall TCE targets
- Use your valuation expertise to support internal decision making across leasing, development and investment opportunities

Reporting, Forecasting & Insight:

- Lead the production of valuation and total return insight for Board and Committee reporting, allowing senior stakeholders to understand the impact of our underlying activities and key performance drivers vs. the market
- Identify trends, emerging risks, pressures and opportunities within our wider portfolio
- Support our joint venture partners in their valuation and reporting requirements
- Champion use of Argus across the real estate function to support asset management activities
- Apply retrospective analysis to appraise the impact of previous investment decisions and development projects
- Research industry trends and analyse peer performance, sharing relevant insight with colleagues

Compliance & Process Improvement

- Maintain accuracy and consistency of valuation data across core systems and reporting tools
- Champion continuous improvement including the use of PowerBI and responsible application of AI-enabled automation, to enhance efficiency, data transparency and reporting quality while ensuring outputs are appropriately reviewed and governed.
- Ensure RICS and IFRS policies are followed, supporting audit readiness and strong
governance

Person specification

Knowledge, experience and skills:

- Valuation professional with substantial experience as a RICS qualified valuer, gained within a professional commercial organisation
- Skilled Argus Enterprise user, confident in both traditional and DCF approaches
- High level of analytical capability with advanced Excel skills and experience with BI tools (Power BI preferred)
- Extensive experience of managing regular valuation processes, portfolio analysis techniques and portfolio performance reporting
- Strong quantitative analytical skills, including an ability to construct, use and interpret cash flow models and appraisals
- Proven in-depth knowledge of the UK real estate market
- Proven track record of operating effectively through ambiguity, with a demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and support process or structural transformation
- A continuous improvement mindset with experience in mapping, refining, and automating
complex financial and data workflows

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 directly, or at [email protected]

Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.