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Job Title: Interim Head of Property Design & Delivery Contract: 9-months minimum Location: West Midlands, Hybrid Day Rate: TBC Spencer Clarke Group are seeking an experienced Interim Head of Property Design and Delivery to lead a newly insourced property professional services design function within a large public sector organisation. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for the strategic design, planning and delivery of property services, including capital project design, asset related programmes and statutory compliance. The role is pivotal in transitioning services from an external provider into an in-house operating model, ensuring continuity, service quality and value for money throughout the transition. The client needs a temporary appointment to lead and manage the return in house of a property design team. The team currently works virtually exclusively on council school new builds expansion and corporate building type projects. They do buy in some M&E, structural and civil capabilities but deliver all architecture and PM/QS work. We need someone with experience of leading a property professional services design office who can plan for and implement a seamless transition of the services back in to the council with an emphasis on delivery of the time critical school projects. The portfolio of work is circa £120m currently with most of that at design stage, covering a mainstream all through school, an SEND all through school, several new primary schools, a health centre, 80 bed nursing home and school and office expansions and refurbishments. Qualifications & Experience Significant senior leadership experience within Local Government Proven experience managing large professional teams and external suppliers Strong track record