Roles
Head of Property Management Jobs
The Head of Property Management owns the department: its performance, its people, its compliance and increasingly its growth. It is a genuine executive role in most agencies of scale.
These appointments are almost always confidential. We conduct them through direct approach rather than advertising.
What the role covers
- Department performance — arrears, vacancy, retention and fee integrity
- Team structure, recruitment and development
- Compliance, trust account oversight and risk
- Rent roll growth strategy alongside the BDM function
- Reporting to the principal or business owner
What separates strong candidates
Commercial understanding. The best department heads can explain how their decisions affect rent roll value, fee income and staff turnover cost, not just operational metrics.
How these searches run
Confidentially, on both sides. Agencies rarely advertise a department head vacancy, and strong candidates rarely apply publicly. If you would consider the right opportunity, register with us privately.
Common questions
- Are these roles advertised?
- Rarely. Most are filled through direct, confidential approach.
- Do I need trust accounting knowledge?
- Oversight-level understanding is expected, even where a dedicated trust accountant handles the day-to-day work.
- How large a department is typical?
- It varies widely — from a handful of property managers in a single office to multi-office departments with specialist support teams.