Job Description

The Senior Property Asset Manager – Expansion is accountable for leading and delivering all landlord and tenant activities required to support Heathrow’s expansion programme, ensuring readiness for acquisition strategy, access, vacant possession, and statutory requirements ahead of the Development Consent Order (DCO). The role serves as the central property interface between the Expansion Programme, delivery teams, British Airways, and other third‑party tenants, ensuring that on‑airport land and property interests are actively managed to protect programme milestones, minimise risk, and enable essential works, surveys, and investigations.

Requiring advanced professional property expertise and strong stakeholder management capability, the role operates autonomously on complex and high‑risk property matters that sit on the critical path to the DCO. By maintaining close alignment across stakeholders and proactively managing property challenges, the postholder plays a key role in ensuring the successful and timely delivery of Heathrow’s expansion objectives.

• Lead and deliver all landlord and tenant activities required to support the Expansion acquisition strategy ahead of DCO, including negotiation and management of British Airways and other third‑party leasehold interests.
• Develop and implement vacant possession, relocation, and access strategies for HAL‑owned on‑airport assets, coordinating tenant sequencing to protect programme milestones and minimise operational, delivery, and reputational risk.
• Coordinate access arrangements, licences, permits, surveys, and enabling works on airport land and assets, ensuring all pre‑DCO land and property dependencies are identified, sequenced, and delivered on the critical path.
• Act as the primary property interface between the Expansion Programme, delivery teams, and on‑airport asset management, leading escalation of property‑related risks, issues, and decisions.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations with airline and third‑party tenants, applying sound commercial judgement to balance programme acceleration, statutory compliance, tenant relationships, and Heathrow’s long‑term property interests.
• Provide expert MRICS‑qualified property leadership, ensuring robust governance, audit trails, and compliance with legal and statutory requirements, while clearly communicating property risks, dependencies, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

• MRICS qualification (or equivalent professional accreditation).
• Extensive experience in landlord and tenant management, property acquisition, and vacant possession strategies.
• Proven experience managing complex property interests within major infrastructure or regulated environments.
• Strong commercial negotiation skills with senior external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience managing property‑related programme risks and dependencies.

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience within aviation, infrastructure, or nationally significant development programmes.
• Experience supporting DCO or similar statutory consent processes.

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of HeathrowWorking arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

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Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.