A major Australian bank is seeking a Senior Retail Lease Manager to manage lease negotiations and documentation across its retail branch network.
Once the Leasing team agrees the commercial terms with a landlord, you’ll take ownership of the transaction. You’ll turn the heads of agreement into lease documentation, instruct external solicitors and negotiate lease wording through to execution. You’ll manage a high volume of matters, including renewals, recent leases, relocations and project-related leases. What you’ll do:
- Liaise with selected law firms, review and draft lease documentation, and deal directly with landlords or their representatives when needed.
- Negotiate lease terms within agreed parameters, resolve departures from standard terms and obtain approvals where required.
- Manage your own portfolio of transactions, track deadlines and keep leases moving through to execution.
- Work with Leasing, Property and Projects teams on agreements for lease, landlord works, fit-out access and handover conditions for new or relocating branches.
- Provide practical advice on lease interpretation and resolve issues that could delay handover or affect continuity of trade.
What you’ll bring:
- Sound experience in hands-on retail lease administration or retail leasing transactions experience.
- Experience personally negotiating retail lease wording,
instructing external solicitors and seeing transactions through to execution.
- Working knowledge of Australian state-based retail leasing legislation and the ability to apply it across a retail portfolio.
- The ability to handle a busy workload, negotiate within agreed terms and know when to escalate.
- Experience with agreements for lease, landlord works or site handovers is highly regarded.
The right candidate may come have experience from a supermarket group, national retailer, major bank or another business with a large network of retail sites. You may also have worked for a shopping centre owner or manager, a retail property trust, or a property services firm managing retail lease transactions for a major landlord or tenant. Your experience should include retail leases and direct involvement in negotiations. The right person could potentially be working as a Senior Lease Administor with the experience mentioned above.
The role will commence as a 2 year fixed term contract, is Sydney CBD based with 2 - 3 days a week in the office and more time on site during onboarding. The target salary is $150K super, there may be slight flexibility for the right candidate.
To apply, please send your CV and it will come through to Karen Gregory.