Senior Retail Lease Manager
About this role
Create your best future and join Westpac as a Senior Retail Lease Manager
What’s the role?
Take the lead on some of Westpac’s most important retail property transactions and help shape the spaces where our customers and teams connect every day.
As a Senior Retail Lease Manager, you'll be at the centre of the action, negotiating leases, partnering with landlords and solicitors, and guiding complex property deals from instruction through to execution. You'll work closely with Leasing, Projects and Operations teams to keep things moving, solve challenges before they become roadblocks, and deliver great outcomes for the business, within required timeframes & in line with policies and limits of authority.
This is a 12 month opportunity based in Sydney, with flexible hybrid working arrangements.
What do I need?
You'll thrive in this role if you bring:
- Strong experience negotiating and managing retail lease transactions across Australia - Retail Lease Administration role with a national retailer, shopping centre or large independent property trust landlord
- A solid understanding of retail legislation and the ability to interpret complex lease documents
- Commercial confidence, with the ability to balance risk, opportunity and business outcomes during negotiations
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, including landlords, legal representatives, and internal partners
- Strong organisational skills and a proactive, detail-focused approach, managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy, quality and deadlines
Why join us?
We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
- Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
- Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
- Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
- Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
Create your future today
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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the "People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements" page on our website.
Company at a glance
From rescue helicopters to signing the Equator Principles, from paying super during parental leave to adding 'Touch ID' biometric technology to our banking apps and being first on the scene with a helping hand in times of crisis... we have a proud history of stepping up to be first for our customers, communities and people. As Australia’s first bank and Australia’s first company we put service at the heart of everything we do and our people are our priority.
We've grown up as a company and expanded both in Australia and throughout Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Now we are made up of your favourite financial institution names including Westpac, BankSA, St.George Bank, BT Financial Group, RAMs and Bank of Melbourne, a change of job doesn’t mean a change of employer at Westpac Group.
We've made a commitment to put our customers first in everything we do. This means creating fundamentally superior customer experiences for each customer, every time. We promise that when you meet with someone from Westpac Group, you'll be touched by their genuine dedication to helping our customers prosper and grow.
Westpac Group acknowledges the traditional owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their Elders, past and present.
Top Benefits
- Banking product discounts
- Mortgage rate discounts
- Flexible work arrangements
- Culture leave
- Lifestyle leave
- Wellbeing leave
- Learning and development opportunities
- Volunteering initiatives
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