2012 – A world of opportunity, self-worth and reward awaits ask-re the Property People LLP – how about you?

Ask-re are a very happy, fulfilled and successful partnership of like-minded professionals, consulting with corporate occupiers and investors in real estate in order to help those client companies prosper in tough times by making them money on leasehold and freehold deals; by saving them money on rents, business rates, dilapidations, tax liabilities and other business property costs; and by enjoying their success with relocations, disposals of old premises, refurbishment and upgrading their space and by providing exceptional specialist skills, know-how and project management from our great team of general practice consultants and real estate specialists. We love our work and really care about our clients being properly looked after in a challenging and often scary world – bursting with incredible opportunities!

We have all sorts of clients, many of longstanding, in all sectors of the UK economy and business community – and they all need increasing help and smarter skills from experienced consultants who really do understand what they need and how to get it done. Part of our fun is to fulfil our pledge of working for nothing – if we cannot improve a situation by increasing the financial benefits receivable by the client, then we don’t expect to be paid. Our objective is to champion the client’s position and wring out financial benefits and other wins, far in excess of our shared-risk fees. Winnings are good, especially when delivered with outstanding personal service and client-care way beyond industry standard.We really do go the extra mile – to get the results and the extra client smiles. We love it and we love winning for our clients.

Whilst we are constantly searching for good people at all levels, right now we are looking in particular for the right sort of person(s) with professional skills in the following areas. Please note that here we are obliged to use terminologies of the recruitment agencies and surveyors to help you identify yourself with our needs expressed in similar Jargon. This is not how we will see you, however, it’s just a convenient sign-post we can both read and move on from. It’s a start and if you are – maybe could be – one of us, we’ll soon switch to normal business English and communicate properly so that we truly understand each other.

2012 will bring us great people with these skills and experience:

• Sales and marketing genius for our design communications agency, Aedis-design, and the family of websites under management and development. We need sales results, PR, marketing and whatever makes serious money for our sites like www.byoutifulyou.com and parts of www.ask-re.co.uk itself. You should have bags of energy and be experienced and successful in web retailing, community-building in cyber space, and a product sourcing and sales guru, up with all the latest viral/social marketing ideas to rocket-up traffic and create loyal memberships. Visuals, apps, affiliates, SEO – it’s all there? Unlimited opportunity awaits!

• Rent Reviews, Lease Renewals and Valuations for your own client base under your own steam, so you need to be experienced, chartered and a born negotiator/deal doer with very strong written and presentational skills, tested out in Arbitrations and perhaps through to expert witness standard. Our clients have very little plain-vanilla work, mostly its tutti-frutti and a real test. Done correctly, we expect terrific results and commensurate job satisfaction, earnings and client happiness. You could be a young bright star in all the disciplines or for particular categories of client business but not a dark star! The job is busy, outgoing and linked closely with the complementary work of colleagues.

• Business Space Leasing – for your own expanding client base of landlords and occupier businesses with a variety of UK leasing work, preferably acquisitions (as they’re multi-skilled efforts) and led by savvy, connected Agency skills of negotiation and people-handling. We’re not square foot monsters and prefer the quality end for obvious reasons as we provide full-on service to clients as standard. This is a real chance to become a stand-out in this area as we’re situated in a very sweet spot for this kind of work. Chartered, connected and consultative? It could be you!

• Investment broker/consultant – looking for your own set-up after a few years making deals for others, you’ll be hungry but be past the big mac ‘n’ fries stage, maybe not quite Beluga ‘n’ Cristal, and as much a client developer and carer as the rest of us as it’s not the fee, is it? Its fees, service and complementary skills, after-care, and putting the client first. Makes us very busy which is why we have this really fantastic opportunity for a skilful and connected real person! Chartered preferred but not essential with colleagues in place and keen to work with you.

• Business Rates specialist with great experience on tough instructions, Tribunal presentations and landlord and tenant skills, to build and develop a standout business rates and cost-cutting service into the business platform. No doubt you’ll have your own client base, maybe some specialist knowledge but definitely all sorts of ‘smarts’ for unlocking those tricky little areas of law and practice to ensure results are maximised for all of our clients and we never miss a trick on settlement or Tribunal appeals.

• Qualified bookkeeper for Sageline 50 company management accounts to TB and pre-audit standards. An ability to add-up would be desirable and full familiarity with payroll taxes and VAT, returns and routines, to including month-ends and quarters. With full external support, basic role is 3 days but could be grown. Come and sprout with us, from Brussels to Calabrese.

• Web designer, front-end, creative and imaginative with excellent technical skills on either computer or Apple Mac. An ability to work back and connect the engine would be helpful. We have a number of new sites which need taking from commercial concept to complete, de-bugged, ‘live’ sites being Google’d. Of course, there’s a bit more to it, so you’ll need decent proven site-building track record to get through our door but the World Wide Web really is your oyster on this position. Aptitude, attitude and absolute integrity are basics; conversational skills optional!

• PA/Secretary to senior property consultant, very heavily exposed to large and varied client base and busy caseload: professional, personable and plugged-in to the person and the business to handle the vagaries, the vigour and the rigour of man and machine! Sector experience is an advantage but not essential. Everything you’d expect including client care and liaison, record management and correspondence, confidentiality, organisation, reliability, single-mindedness, complete dedication and a smattering of typing if time permits.

• Client recruitment and development, sales and marketing, client/consultant business liaison and services development – which all of us do but we need a senior “super-salesman” in professional client handling who will focus upon core skills and high-margin work and go out and get it. Sounds like a salesman but we think it screams “Senior Partner” because we’re a consultancy not a factory and our best ‘suite’ is bespoke services for each well-understood client situation and developed simultaneously with many others, not linearly, in this strategic role. Results-based as everything is these days but with great flexibility and support to succeed. If you’re energetic, skilled and a credible people-person – let us know!

Should you want to explore one or more of these genuine ground-floor opportunities and are free to come and see us, please do so by hitting the link or by hitting the header buttons. We’re not just looking for credible CV’s, we really want exceptional people with clear ideas and well-thought out proposals to come and join us. You won’t find it easy to convince us but if you do, maybe we’ll be together for a very long time. We’re that kind of outfit. Job-hoppers, Agency-fodder and clock-watchers are not suitable because we’re in a different place, tougher of course, but based on commitment and dedication to the clients, the work and the team. So please write to us why you think we’d be really good together and don’t be shy about telling us what you would achieve with us – we won’t mistake it as ego.

And finally, this is not a ‘January offer’ – we want the best people and finding them doesn’t depend on throwing a dart at a calendar. We’ll have this invitation out there for a long while and will amend it from time to time. But please do get in touch if you decide that there’s been a connection with your thoughts and ours – we’ll be very pleased to hear from you and learn what we might do together in 2012.

With our best wishes and thank you for your interest in us.