Estate Manager for Rural French Chateau and Estate

• July 2023 Start Date 

Chace People is looking for a superstar Estate Manager for our clients’ beautiful rural estate, approximately 100km from Paris.  

The estate spans over 200 hectares, including seven hectares of lake. It compromises a spectacular 20^th century chateau, an orangery, a swimming pool and multiple ancillary buildings. The 17 bedroom chateau is situated within spectacular gardens on what is truly one of the best estates outside of Paris.

Our client will be taking over the management of the operating and development of the estate from late July and is looking for an exceptionally talented and driven Estate Manager to oversee the effective and efficient operation of the estate, ensuring an exceptional quality shooting season and ensuring a high performing team is in place.

Our client will be significantly redeveloping the estate to turn it into the primary estate in the  region, and the Estates Manager will be at the heart of this journey.

Roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Overseeing the effective operation of all elements of the estate including maintenance and upkeep, day-to-day financial expenditure and managing the estate team;
• Developing and maintaining exceptional relationships with our client, key stakeholders, guests and suppliers;
• Acting as the primary host for all shoots hosted on the estate during the season;
• Supervising the effective operation of each property on the Estate;
• Keeping all operational processes under review, regularly making proposals and setting forth business cases to our client on areas for improvement and opportunities to enhance the clients’ experiences of the Estate, including making recommendations on improvements that can be made to the approach to maintenance of the physical asset or client services within it;
• Managing the estate team, ensuring that they have the support, guidance and challenge required to be successful in their roles; and ensuring that they are delivering a consistently  exceptional service across the estate;
• Ensuring full transparency of operations to our client and its representatives through regular reporting, continually available monitoring, and regular briefings;
• Supervising household installations, trades and vendors for interior and exterior and seasonal projects and reporting;
• Ensuring the pristine landscaping is maintained and upkeep of the grounds of the Estate (c200+ hectares);
• Coordinating and overseeing activity requests on the Estate including but not limited to golf, horse riding and shooting.

Role requirements:

• Fluency in French and English;
• Significant previous experience of operating estates/hospitality assets.
  
  

This is an incredible opportunity to join an exciting, high profile company and estate. If this sounds like the right role for you, then please do get in touch.

Only candidates with the relevant experience and excellent checkable references need apply.