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Are you a seasoned Building Surveyor eager to elevate your career? A prestigious multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy in London is seeking a Senior Chartered Building Surveyor (MRICS) to join their dynamic team. This role offers the unique chance to work closely with the Director, with a clear pathway towards a management position. Why This Role Stands Out: - Career Progression - This opportunity is a strategic move towards leadership. You will gain invaluable experience in management, preparing you for future leadership roles within the company. - Diverse Project Portfolio - While the primary focus will be on residential projects, the consultancy boasts a varied range of assignments. This diversity ensures that your work remains engaging and challenging, allowing you to broaden your expertise. - Professional Growth: Working with a team that has a comprehensive understanding of the built environment, you will be exposed to a broad spectrum of building design, upgrades, refurbishments, and renovations. This will significantly enhance your skill set and professional knowledge. - Impactful Work: Your role will involve conducting thorough building and property surveys, addressing defect pathology, preparing condition reports, and offering insights into property purchase and lease matters. Additionally, you will handle party wall issues and dilapidations, making a tangible impact on the built environment. Skills and Experience Required: - Chartered Status: Must be a Chartered MRICS Building Surveyor with a recognised professional body. - Experience: Significant experience in building surveying, particularly within the residential sector. - Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of building design, upgrades, refurbishments, renovations, contract administration, and defect pathology. - Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare detailed reports and liaise effectively with clients. - Leadership Potential: Demonstrated ability to take initiative and a keen interest in stepping into a management role. Not only does this opportunity offer progression and proffessional development, it includes a generous salary and extensive package.Reach out to Ethan Williams on to discuss.

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Job Title: Site Manager - Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) Location: London Rate: £250-£300 per day Contract: 3 months (with strong potential to go permanent) Client: Leading M&E Engineering Consultancy / Critical Environment Specialists

Data Scientist (one day a week in the central London office)

Quality Assurance Specialist (Full-time, 12-18 months fixed term contract)

Develop and execute an information governance strategy and data privacy policies. Will also identify risks and opportunities associated with information management and propose innovative solutions. Establish and maintain a robust records management program, including the creation, classification, retention, retrieval, and disposal of records. Collaborate with the firm's IT and cybersecurity teams to develop and enforce data privacy and security protocols. Monitor regulatory changes and industry standards. Also ensure the firm's practices align with legal and ethical requirements. Assess, select, and implement appropriate systems to support information governance and records management activities. Coordinate the transfer of information in or out of the firm in compliance with Firm policies. When necessary, ensure the proper execution of destruction orders. Implement supporting protocols and processes to ensure statutory, regulatory, ethical and privacy requirements are met for the management of physical and electronic information. Create/enhance the Firm's information governance policies, including but not limited to retention and disposal, data sharing, records management, archiving data, and data privacy. Analyze client audits to ensure compliance and identify areas for improvement and maintenance in the information governance framework Data Privacy and Security. Develop the Firm's data privacy framework to align with emerging domestic and international data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, SEC Regs S-P & S-ID)

Strategic Underwriting: Your role goes beyond individual policies; you're crafting the blueprint for our entire portfolio. Your decisions are informed by a comprehensive understanding of underwriting guidelines and industry best practices. Technical Guidance: Your expertise isn't just valuable internally; it's a guiding light for our entire team. You provide technical assistance on underwriting matters, ensuring that our decisions are grounded in sound underwriting principles. Policy Development: Your input into policy development is crucial. You contribute to the creation and refinement of policy wordings and documentation, ensuring that they meet the needs of our customers and comply with regulatory requirements. Compliance Oversight: Compliance isn't just a box to tick; it's a fundamental aspect of our operations. You work closely with the Governance Team to ensure that our underwriting practices are compliant with internal processes and regulatory requirements. Documentation Management: Your attention to detail ensures that our policy wordings and documentation are clear, accurate, and legally sound. You play a crucial role in ensuring that our customers understand their coverage and obligations. Underwriting governance and controls: You're not just following rules; you're shaping them. You assist in the development, administration, and monitoring of underwriting controls, rules and guidelines which cover key areas of technical and governance best practice, relating to underwriting, ensuring that they evolve in line with our strategic objectives. Adaptability: In a rapidly evolving industry, adaptability is key. You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, embracing change as an opportunity for growth and innovation. Cultural Alignment and attitude: You embody our culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity. Your 'can-do' attitude and commitment to excellence set the standard for our team. You are required to develop and maintain good relationships within commercial team, Sky Protect and other stakeholders including insurers - built on trust, integrity, and high performance.

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Lead across a team of service designers to analyse, define, and improve end-to-end, multi-channels journeys that meet diverse customer needs and align with accessibility standards. Drive strategic service design across portfolios, shaping journeys that align with business goals and championing the customer voice. Partner with cross-functional leaders in Product, Design, Tech, Ops, and Architecture to deliver joined-up, scalable service solutions that meet real user needs. Own the definition, evolution and adoption of service blueprints and journey maps across the customer lifecycle, and develop operational models that enable rather than restrict. Work with design leadership to evolve service design methods, improve design operations, and drive adoption of AI-enhanced tools to improve service quality and efficiency. Define end-to-end strategies, experience principles, frameworks, customer journeys and CX KPIs that connect digital, assisted, and real-world touchpoints with clarity and consistency.

Lead and manage a team of DevOps engineers responsible for the development , deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure and automation systems

Lead a small team of product designers to deliver world-class, innovative, and intuitive evidence-based user experiences across web and native platforms. Own the Sky design system strategic direction, ensuring scalability, governance, and alignment with product strategy and business goals. Partner with engineering, product, research, and analytics to ensure system usability, performance, and brand consistency across platforms. Be responsible for system architecture, tokenisation, documentation quality, and design-engineering parity, while using AI tools and engaging with Design Ops to improve efficiency. Champion inclusive design and embed WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards across all components, patterns, and motion principles. Shape the end-to-end experience vision, define CX KPIs, and link design system adoption to measurable business outcomes.

Lead within a team of user researchers to analyse, define, and improve end-to-end journeys across multiple channels. Plan and run research activities including usability testing, field studies, card sorting, tree testing, ethnography, diary studies, and surveys. Champion the customer voice in strategic conversations, ensuring needs and behaviours drive prioritisation and design outcomes. Shape research practices and operations, promoting the value of user research across the organisation Champion AI-enhanced research tools, analytics integration, and data-driven processes to improve efficiency, quality, and insight scalability. Ensure accessibility, representation, and inclusive practices are embedded across all our digital experiences.