Senior Retail Lease Manager

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.