Regional Leasing Manager- QLD
Your opportunity
Our Leasing team carefully curate the total Westfield experience, ensuring each destination delivers a powerful mix of fashion, dining, fresh food and entertainment – each playing a critical role in the overall customer experience.
We have an opportunity for an experienced Regional Leasing Manager to join the Scentre Group team.
You will lead a high-performing team of Leasing Executives who work closely with new and existing business partners to deliver leasing and retail solutions to meet their needs and connect them to customers within our living centres.
You will support and coach a team to negotiate deals that deliver agreed financial metrics and mutually beneficial outcomes for both parties.
This role is responsible for ensuring the tenancy product mix in their allocated region exceeds customer expectations, maximises value and grows income. Success in this role is due largely to the relationships you will have developed with your stakeholders and the emphasis you place on delivering great results for your Business Partners. You will be a Key member of the Asset team responsible for delivering the leasing elements of the Strategic Asset Plan. You will:
- Negotiate tenancy deals, obtain approvals, logging the transaction and any variations to enable other areas of the business to document, execute the lease and open the tenancy as soon as possible
- Research the retail market, industry trends and individual business performance to seek to understand the broad centre market demographics and trends, demand, competition and opportunities to curate the right retail mix
- Identify new concepts and businesses and present pipeline of new opportunities and strategic deals to the Regional Manager - Leasing and Retail Solutions
- Ensure Business Partner Leads, meetings, minutes and conversations of substance are captured in Scentral (Salesforce)
- Work with Leasing Assistants to ensure critical documentation is accurate and delivery and return is speedy
- Identify and provide solutions to replace or relocate underperforming businesses and pre-lease virtual vacancies in a timely way
- Engage with co-owners for approvals working through the Developments and Strategic Asset Management team as required
- Prepare annual budgets and collaborate with other teams and key stakeholders to develop the Strategic Asset Plan for the asset and the communities in which they’re located
- Build and nurture strong business partnerships with retailers to deliver the leasing strategy for the asset whilst ensuring the financial metrics are maximised
This role is permanent, full-time
What sets you apart
- Minimum 5 years leadership experience in the property (retail or service) industry
- Financially numerate and a strong commercial acumen
- Experience in Property related, finance or business education – Tertiary preferred
- Possess strong negotiation Skills
- Innovative & promotes curiosity
- Prioritise and manage time effectively
- Great questioning to understand, clarify and influence
- Collaborate well with stakeholders
You are someone who is;
- Confident and at the same time humble
- Responsive
- Relationship driven
- Solution focussed
- Resilient and calm under pressure
- A Team Player – collaborates with others to get the job done
About us
Scentre Group owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.
We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.
With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has the expertise to design, construct, operate, manage and market our Westfield destinations and platforms.
We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect, inspire and develop you, and that you will do work that matters.
Diversity, equity and inclusion underpins our culture, and our vision is that ‘Everyone Belongs’. We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.
We aspire to create a workforce reflective of the communities in which we operate and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or life stage.
We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period, and free parking at your local Westfield destination.
Discover more about working with us.
For more information or if you have any questions, please email scobby@scentregroup.com for a confidential discussion
Applications close: 26th November
Please note we will not be accepting applications through agency for this role.
