Internal Advert Close date: 19th November 2026
At The Crown Estate, we're creating brilliant places for customers, communities and nature to thrive. As our Document Management Lead, you'll play a key role in modernising how critical business information is organised, governed and accessed across our Portfolio Operations team. You'll lead the transformation of document management practices, ensuring colleagues can easily find, trust and use the information they need to make informed decisions and deliver operational excellence.
As the subject matter expert for document management within Portfolio Operations, you'll:
You'll bring a blend of document management expertise, stakeholder engagement skills and a passion for improving ways of working.
This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on how information supports decision-making across a nationally significant property portfolio. You'll influence the future of digital information management while working alongside passionate colleagues committed to operational excellence, sustainability and innovation.
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Can I use AI to help with my application?
Yes. AI can be a useful tool for organising your thoughts, improving clarity, checking spelling and grammar, or helping you prepare for an interview.
What matters most is that your application is accurate, authentic and reflects your own skills, achievements and motivations. We want to get to know you, not an AI-generated version of you.
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly.
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
At The Crown Estate, our role is to put the nation’s interests first.
We manage land, property and the seabed across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - independently, commercially and for our nation’s future.
We’re investing and playing a key role in delivering net zero and energy security, nature recovery and biodiversity, and supporting inclusive communities and economic growth, all while responsibly creating financial value for the UK.
We return our profits to the UK government for public spending, which has totalled more than £5 billion over the last ten years.
We manage a diverse £15 billion portfolio, making a lasting impact, today and for generations to come. This includes urban centres and development opportunities; one of the largest rural holdings in the country; Regent Street and St James’s in London’s West End; and Windsor Great Park. We also manage the seabed and much of the coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where we have an ambitious vision for how the UK’s seabed can support nature recovery and the transition to clean energy.
