Senior Retail Leasing Executive

12-Month Contract | Sydney

Summary

Growthpoint Properties Australia (ASX: GOZ) is a real estate investment trust focused on office, industrial and retail assets, with highly engaged employees and market-leading sustainability initiatives.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Retail Leasing Executive to join our team on a full-time, 12-month contract, based in our Sydney office.

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager – Retail, you will lead retail leasing activity across Growthpoint’s national portfolio, with a particular focus on Rundle Place and Central Park Mall. This role will be responsible for driving occupancy, income growth and tenant mix outcomes through disciplined leasing strategy, strong commercial execution and effective stakeholder relationships.

This is an opportunity for an experienced retail leasing professional to take ownership of key leasing strategies and transactions while working collaboratively across a high-quality national property portfolio.

Responsibilities In this role, you will:

- Develop and execute asset-specific leasing strategies, expiry profiles and tenant mix plans aligned with asset business plans, budgets and portfolio strategy.
- Lead leasing strategy and pipelines for Rundle Place and Central Park Mall, including major deals, remixing and redevelopment initiatives.
- Negotiate new leases, renewals, relocations, surrenders, variations and Heads of Agreement within approved commercial parameters.
- Proactively source national, mini-major and specialty retailers through established relationships, direct canvassing, brokers and external agents.
- Analyse retailer sales, occupancy costs, catchment trends, competitor activity and category performance to identify opportunities and address underperformance.
- Provide leasing assumptions to support budgets, valuations and business plans,



while maintaining accurate pipeline forecasts and risk and opportunity reporting.
- Maintain solid governance across leasing approvals, Retail Leases legislation, documentation, system data, expiry profiles and critical dates.
- Build trusted retailer relationships and work closely with Asset Management, Centre Management, Legal, Finance, Projects and Tenant Delivery.
- Lead leasing team workflow, performance and capability, fostering accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Provide commercial leasing advice to support refurbishments, redevelopments, acquisitions, disposals and due diligence activities.

Qualifications and Experience To be successful in this role, you will bring:

- 5–7+ years’ retail or shopping centre leasing experience, ideally gained with an institutional or major private landlord, retailer or agency.
- Demonstrated success negotiating new leases, renewals and remixing across neighbourhood, sub-regional or large-format retail assets.
- Strong commercial acumen and knowledge of rent structures, turnover rent, incentives, make-good, exclusivity and Retail Leases legislation.
- Established relationships across national, mini-major and specialty retailers, franchise groups, brokers and leasing agents.
- People leadership or mentoring experience, including oversight of internal workflow and external agents.
- Strong financial and analytical capability, including occupancy cost, NPV and payback analysis, budgets and leasing forecasts.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 and property or lease management systems such as Yardi or MRI.
- Solid organisational and communication skills, with the resilience and accountability to manage competing priorities and build effective relationships.
- A tertiary qualification in property, business, commerce, law or a related discipline will be highly regarded.

📌 Senior Retail Leasing Executive (Sydney)
🏢 Growthpoint Properties Australia
📍 Sydney