Partner – Professional Services – Muscat, Oman

Our Oman office is part of an extensive regional network comprised of experienced, licenced, RICS qualified professionals who use local insights and their years of expertise to deliver accurate, reliable and prompt professional services.

As a Partner at Cavendish Maxwell, you will primarily be responsible for ensuring that the Oman office and service lines under your remit are both progressive and successful. This will involve establishing and growing our existing business lines, meeting and exceeding client expectations, and raising the profile of the company as we embark on our ambitious regional expansion plan.

You will develop, articulate, and maintain a strategy for new business prospects whilst strengthening existing client relationships. As a regional expert, you will be encouraged to leverage your network and demonstrate creative initiative to identify and secure new opportunities. 

You will work closely with senior management and the various teams across our growing office network to maximise opportunities for cross-selling and new market penetration. You will also be required to collaborate with our marketing department to develop regional business marketing collateral.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of the Oman office to include development of high-quality strategic plans for the business, ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term company objectives.
• Take a lead role in the business development across all service lines with a particular focus on valuation and property management functions, through assignment sales presentations, together with preparation and submittal of client responsive proposals, to sell and quote for services and successfully close assignment tenders.
• Take full responsibility for deliverables within these service lines including mobilisation and strategy plans for large scale mixed-use developments (tenanted and new to market) including snagging surveys, residential and commercial pricing and valuation, service charge budgeting, policies and procedures guidance, fit out manuals, tender and procurement of annual maintenance contractors and utilising CAFM tools.
• Manage large and complex assignments to ensure the accuracy of work, with timely and efficient deliverables.
• Be proactive in identifying and scoping out new clients and business opportunities.
• Participate in the review and assessment of potential business development and bidding prospects.
• Collaborate with other departments internally to maintain market knowledge and cross sell opportunities.
• Contribute to company marketing and promotional activities, including:
  • Networking with a range of external partners and individuals
  • Identifying opportunities and events to promote our work
  • Representing Cavendish Maxwell and its work as may be needed at meetings and events.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

• Educated to bachelor’s or master’s degree level in real estate.

• Chartered surveyor (MRICS) with a minimum of 15 years’ post qualification experience.
• Must be an RICS registered valuer with excellent knowledge of the Red Book.
• Excellent financial analysis skills and familiarity with accounting concepts.
• Strong track record of effectively managing and developing teams, internal and external partners.
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining a strategy for complex, multi-disciplinary businesses that yields results in both revenue and margin growth.
• Demonstrated business development skills.
• Ability to drive regional consistency across the business e.g. in reporting, standard operating procedures, systems, compliance and quality assurance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven capabilities to effectively represent businesses and drive decisions.
• Ability to communicate in an open, honest and transparent manner at all times with the ability to tailor messages to specific audiences.
• Technology ‘savvy’ with experience in enabling technologies as they relate to services.
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Fluency in other languages – Arabic speaking is not essential but would be advantageous.
• Omani nationals preferred.

What you can expect from us:

At Cavendish Maxwell, we foster a strong culture of mutual cooperation and knowledge sharing, where teams collaborate to address common problems and raise standards across the organisation.

We believe in investing in the most valuable resource we have: our people. As part of this practice, we provide unique opportunities to work as part of a multidisciplinary consultancy alongside highly qualified colleagues coming from all over the world.

We also provide a competitive tax-free salary and benefits package that is in line with industry standards, which we know is essential in attracting and retaining the best talent.  If you are seeking a place where you will be taught, challenged, recognised and rewarded, in a diverse yet inclusive environment, Cavendish Maxwell is the organisation for you.