Senior Buildings Operations Manager - Real Estate (m/f/d)

About the role

The Senior Building Operations Manager is a specialist, independent technical oversight role within the real estate asset management platform. The role is responsible for providing expert challenge and assurance across asset condition, technical compliance, facilities management performance and operational risk. It ensures that assets are safe, compliant, well maintained and fit for purpose, allowing Asset Managers to focus on value creation, strategy and transactions rather than day‑to‑day operational risk. Working alongside Asset Management, Property Management, Development teams and external FM providers, the role provides technical governance, early risk identification and consistent standards across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance and Inspection Planning
• Verification that the PM provides complete and reliable maintenance and inspection plans
• Monitoring timely execution of preventive maintenance
• Spot checks of maintenance logs, evidence, and technical reports
• Capex and Maintenance Budget
• Review of annual capex budgets and plausibility checks of technical cost items
• Actual‑vs‑budget comparisons for maintenance costs
• Analysis of budget overruns, including root‑cause evaluation
• Ensuring correct capex classification
• Facility‑Management Oversight
• Monitoring the overall performance of FM providers, based on agreed service levels and contractual obligations
• Review of FM reports, service tickets, and recurring issues to identify patterns and risk areas
• Verification that preventive and corrective FM activities are properly organized, documented, and escalated where needed
• Ensuring clear coordination between FM providers and Property Managers, including responsiveness and service quality
• Technical Compliance and Safety
• Monitoring statutory inspection requirements (e.g., elevators, fire safety, electrical checks)
• Ensuring timely completion by the Property Managers
• Review of documentation, deficiency reports, and acceptance protocols
• Quality of Technical Reporting & PM Reporting
• Review of technical monthly and quarterly reports
• Verification of defined technical KPIs (e.g., maintenance completion rate, time to remedy defects)
• Feedback to PMs including deviation lists- Project Oversight (Monitoring, not Project Management)
• Plausibility checks of major technical measure
• Review of cost estimates, technical specifications, and tender documents
• Verification of project completion documentation and technical records
• About the Candidate:
• Above-average academic degree with a focus on building operations (e.g., Facility Management, Real Estate Management, or Building Services Engineering)
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in a facility or property management environment
• Strong analytical capabilities combined with sound commercial and financial acumen
• In-depth knowledge of statutory inspection requirements, safety standards, and regulatory compliance
• Experience in performance management, including KPI tracking, reporting, and quality assurance
• Proven ability to manage and oversee external service providers and ensure contractual performance
• Good understanding of technical project environments, particularly with regard to

Benefits

Additional Information

Job Description Aberdeen Investments is part of Aberdeen Group plc, one of the UK's leading Wealth & Investments groups. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society. We are repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand and are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. As a global business, Aberdeen consists of three divisions: Investments, Adviser, and interactive investor (ii). Each division is dedicated to meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs. In European markets, our dedicated and highly experienced investment team manages our European products, including emerging market income and debt, smaller companies, European credit, ETFs, real estate and sustainable investing propositions. We have offices in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Our breadth of experience gives us close proximity to the companies we invest in and the markets we operate in. About the Department Aberdeen manages over €63bn of real assets globally, with real estate representing the largest component at €45bn of assets under management. The real estate platform spans direct, indirect and listed strategies across multiple jurisdictions and sectors, requiring strong technical governance, operational resilience and regulatory compliance to support long‑term value creation.

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