Career Pathways: Susie Gray Director of Property
Susie Gray has been Director of Property since 2016. During this time, Susie has led several large projects, including 18 Mole Business Park and has responsibility for the current development of the new Silverwood inpatient service. Susie’s role as part of the Executive team is to support the wider needs of the Trust and to interpret those needs. Susie’s passion for property began with her graduating with a BSc degree in Urban Land Administration from Portsmouth and following university her first role was as a Graduate Surveyor. Susie went on qualifying as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 1990. At John Laing Property, Susie was a board Director of Laing Property with an advisory role to the development directors and was also a Non-executive Director of Equion (a Laing, Hyder JV), leading the property element of Equions’s successful bid for the Surrey County Council property out-sourcing opportunity and as Head of Real Estate, overseeing the restructuring of the portfolio to support the organisational change and subsequent sale of the construction group. In the early 2000s, Susie was a Portfolio Director at Land Securities, the largest property company in the UK, and developed a new business concept for short-term property leasing that she led into reality and successfully achieved a customer satisfaction rating of 50% higher than traditionally let properties. In 2009, Susie started her own consultancy providing corporate real estate. Her clients included Henley Business School, University of Reading and Metropolitan Police Service.
Susie joined SABP as Director of Property and her role as part of the Executive team is to support the delivery of our Strategy and translate the needs of the services into high quality care and healing environments that support the wellbeing of both people who use our services, carers and staff. This covers everything from gardening to the construction of new buildings. During her career, Susie has been an active member of the Real Estate community, previously serving as UK President of CoreNet (a non-profit association with nearly 10,000 members across 50 countries, that provides development opportunities), and developed a new MBA module in Real Estate for Henley Business School.
If you are interested in Susie’s career journey and would like to reach out to her, please email: susie.gray@sabp.nhs.uk
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