The Opportunity
Trident are seeking to recruit a compliance manager to lead, monitor and embed a culture of compliance across Trident’s operations, ensuring that all activities meet the highest standards of regulatory, legislative and ethical practice. The role will drive continuous improvement in compliance outcomes, support our employees and offices and ensure Trident remains a market leader in building safety, environmental and regulatory assurance, with improvements scaled to support future growth. The compliance manager reports to the Head of Operations and wider Leadership Team.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to take on responsibility, contribute to strategic direction, and support the continued growth of our business. The ideal candidate will bring a collaborative mindset, strong leadership capabilities, and a passion for delivering exceptional service.
We are looking for candidates with experience in the real estate industry, ideally working for a property consultancy. Applicants are invited to apply on a full-time or part-time basis (minimum of three days per week).
Trident will offer a highly competitive salary package including a range of benefits:
- iPhone & Laptop to support our agile & hybrid working policy
- Enhanced maternity / paternity and adoption leave policy (after a successful probationary period)
- Competitive private pension scheme (5% employer & minimum 3% employee contribution)
- Private Health Care (after 3 months)
- Tax-free EOT bonus scheme – after 12 months continuous employment
- Membership to our life insurance scheme (x2 annual salary)
- Upon passing probation the company will provide you with a £20.00 monthly allowance to spend on our benefits package provider, Zhoosh, to further enhance your benefits package:
- Top up your pension contributions
- Purchase critical illness cover, in steps of £25,000 up to £250,000 maximum cover
- Purchase life insurance, in steps of £25,000 up to £250,000 maximum cover
- Purchase a bike through our cycle scheme
- Lease an electric car
- Company and team profit shares
- Career development investment
- Payment of professional fees and membership subscriptions
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (full time entitlement)
- Opportunity to accrue an additional 4 long service days
- Opportunity to buy a maximum of two weeks’ additional annual leave each year
- Electric Car Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Perkbox benefits platform
- Company annual staff team building day and regular local social events
About Trident
In June 2022 Trident proudly became an Employee Ownership Trust. Trident has recently been awarded “Investors in People” Gold accreditation, which demonstrates that our people are our most important asset. Trident’s culture embraces diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) across our offices and our team enjoy a healthy work life balance that supports physical and mental wellbeing.
Trident are B Corp certified and were featured in the Sunday Times, Best Places to Work 2025! We have also partnered up with PREACH Inclusion to implement our DEI Framework. We’ve meticulously measured our carbon footprint and set a science-based target through SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), ensuring our goals are grounded in scientific consensus.
Our network of national regional and offices work as a collaborative team to provide the highest level of Building Surveying and Project Management to our enviable client list. Our agile working policy has operated since 2019 and it recognises that work is not just performed “9 to 5” in the office, allowing our staff the flexibility to vary working hours and to work remotely although we encourage staff to attend the office regularly to help promote our core values of team working and collaboration.
About You
We are looking for a collaborative, confident compliance professional who is comfortable operating across a multi-office consultancy environment.
Essential Experience & Skills
- Proven experience in a compliance management role, ideally within the built environment, real estate, property consultancy or professional services sector.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory compliance, risk management and governance frameworks.
- Experience planning and delivering internal audits and driving corrective actions.
- Ability to develop clear, practical policies and embed them across diverse teams.
- Confident stakeholder manager, able to influence at leadership level and support teams operationally.
- A pragmatic, improvement-focused mindset with strong attention to detail.
Desirable
- Experience with building safety, health & safety and/or environmental compliance.
- Familiarity with ISO management systems (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001).
- B Corp
- Experience supporting compliance in a growing consultancy or multi-site organisation.
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