Property Services deputy director roles

Closing date/time: 11.55pm, 1 October 2026
Salary: The successful candidate will receive a basic salary in excess of £100,000. For candidates with exceptional and highly relevant knowledge, skills, and experience, in addition to base salary consideration may be given to a non-pensionable market allowance. 
Location: This role is based at Marlowe House and Hendon, with regular attendance required across the MPS estate, including frequent meetings at New Scotland Yard. Flexibility to work from multiple locations is essential.
Contract: Permanent

The Metropolitan Police Service is seeking an exceptional leader to join its Property Services Directorate as Deputy Director of Development, Portfolio and Projects. 

This is a unique opportunity to lead the transformation, development and capital investment programme across one of the largest and most complex public sector estates in the UK. Reporting to the Director of Property Services, you will oversee the planning and delivery of major estate development, refurbishment, regeneration and lifecycle investment programmes that support operational policing across London. 

You will play a critical role in shaping the future of the Metropolitan Police estate, ensuring investment decisions deliver long-term value, operational effectiveness, resilience and sustainability. 

About the Role 
As Deputy Director of Development, Portfolio and Projects, you will:

• Lead the delivery of a substantial capital investment programme, ensuring projects are completed safely, efficiently and in line with organisational priorities. 
• Shape the long-term development and transformation of the Metropolitan Police estate through strategic estate planning and investment. 
• Provide leadership across programme delivery, project management, engineering standards, resilience, design and construction. 
• Oversee major professional services, construction frameworks and supply chain partners, ensuring quality, value for money and effective contract performance. 
• Drive innovation through modern delivery methods, digital technologies and data-led decision-making. 
• Lead governance, business case development and assurance processes for major capital investment decisions. 
• Build strong relationships with operational policing, senior stakeholders, contractors and professional advisers. 
• Contribute to the wider leadership of the Property Services Directorate and deputise for the Director when required. 

About You 
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative and commercially astute leader with significant experience delivering large-scale property, construction or infrastructure programmes. 

You will bring: 

• Extensive senior leadership experience within property, construction, estates, infrastructure or capital programme environments. 
• A proven track record of delivering major development, refurbishment and transformation programmes through complex supply chains. 
• Experience managing significant capital investment portfolios and delivering value for money from major projects. 
• Strong commercial acumen and experience overseeing procurement, contract management and supplier performance. 
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and build credibility at executive and board level. 
• Strong programme governance, risk management and decision-making capabilities. 
• Experience leading organisational change and driving continuous improvement within complex environments. 
• A degree-level qualification and a relevant professional qualification or chartered status in a related discipline, or equivalent senior-level expertise. 

Why Join Us? 
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of an estate that supports frontline policing and public safety across London. 

You will join a senior leadership team committed to transforming property services, delivering sustainable investment, driving innovation and ensuring the Metropolitan Police estate remains fit for the future.

How to apply
The Metropolitan Police Service is working with executive search partner Sanderson Government & Defence on this appointment.

To apply, or for a confidential discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained executive search partner:

Sanderson Government & Defence
Name: Scarlett Horton, Consultant, Executive Search Government & Defence Team
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: 07890437914
Closing date: 23:55 on 1 October 2026

Our commitment to inclusivity
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

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