If you are passionate about property management and want to contribute towards a professional, high-functioning, and collaborative culture, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for a Senior Property Manager who is passionate about delivering efficient, well-organized and timely property leasing and management services. Reporting to the Head of Property Development, you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient running of all aspects of your portfolio, while maintaining “best in class” service delivery, innovation and planning. You will play a key role in protecting and growing value by optimizing long-term sustainable revenue.
With the aviation and travel sector booming, on top of transformational projects that will underpin the future growth and development of Melbourne Airport and Victoria as a whole, now is a very exciting time to join! Our flexible hybrid working and family-friendly work policies will support you inside and outside of work, if you are looking for a good work life balance, Melbourne Airport has everything to offer.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion extends to our employee benefits package, which includes flexible work arrangements, leave policies that provide equal opportunity to all our employees (e.g. 14 weeks paid parental leave for all carers), discounted onsite childcare, wellness days and much more.
Key responsibilities:
The role's duties and accountabilities include, but are not limited to:
Financial Management
- Assist Asset Manager with budgeting and financial planning.
- Oversee, understand, and provide input on all financial transactions with regards to lease obligations and assist the finance team with reviewing the accuracy of charges.
- Maintain optimal and sustainable revenue growth.
- Cost management and forecasting.
- Capital planning and expenditure.
Property Leasing Management
- Protect value & identify revenue opportunities.
- Maintain market knowledge, developments, & network connections within the industry and assess possible implications on the portfolio.
- Promote long term & stable relationships with our tenants to ensure sustainable growth and minimise vacancies.
- Assist Asset Manager with preparation of Business Cases funding papers and the need and make recommendations for capital works.
- Prepare proposals and undertake negotiations on all new lettings, lease renewals, market & rent reviews as well as any proposed assignments and sub lettings and obtain required approvals to finalise.
- Ensure lease terms are reviewed by legal and work with them in the preparation of lease and license documentation and assist in other legal items as required.
Property /Facilities Management
- Business Partner management (including Facilities Management, Safety & Environmental Management)
- Ensure property assets are fit for purpose to meet APAM’s strategic objectives. Monitor Business Partner performance to ensure fulfilment of landlord and tenant lease obligations.
- Provide input/assistance to ensure internal processes and Standard Operating Procedures are appropriately documented.
- Provide instruction to internal teams with regards to lease and site set ups on required platforms.
- Maintain current and accurate critical dates register to ensure actionable items are dealt within the required timeframe.
Tenant Management
- Maintain regular communications with our tenants acting as key contact for lease related issues and a point of escalation for any operational or facilities management matters.
- Maintain current insurance policies and bank guarantees as outlined in the lease.
- Contribute to formal communications with tenants such as outgoings Methodology, Rates & taxes methodology etc.
Safety and Sustainability
- Work with facility management teams, operations, safety and environment teams to ensure collaboration and development of goals and objective.
The successful candidate will have:
- Tertiary qualification in business, commerce, project / asset management or similar.
- 3-5 plus years of business, property / leasing/ asset management, operations experience would be an advantage.
- Supply evidence on the successful completion of your agent’s representative certificate.
- Ability to develop long term relationships and negotiate successful outcomes in a tenant facing property leasing role.
- Demonstrated knowledge of property law, valuation, contract law and property practices and principles.
- Assist Asset Manager with business planning, budget development and business case development.
- Be able to work effectively with internals teams including close integration with the Property Development and Facilities Management teams, manage external property management professionals, ensuring you are working collaboratively towards a clear and common goal.
- A clear understanding of Property Leasing principles, cost management disciplines, the commercial building and construction process, risk management and environmental and OHS authorities and responsibilities.
- Ability to effectively communicate and influence internal and external stakeholders on sensitive and commercial issues.
We understand that not everyone will feel they meet all of these 100%. However, if you feel you have the attitude and aptitude to grow within our team, we invite you to apply and have a conversation with us about this position.
About the Company:
Melbourne Airport (Australia Pacific Airports Corporation) is proud to be one of Australia's premier transport hubs and Victoria's gateway to the world, connecting us to the global marketplace. We are committed to creating connections that matter and enhancing the traveller experience across every aspect of our organisation to deliver our vision of becoming Australia's favourite Airport destination. Currently, in an exciting phase of change, we are delivering rewarding career opportunities, making Melbourne Airport a dynamic and fast-paced place to work for our people.
APAC is a majority Australian-owned private company that also operates Launceston Airport, the tourism gateway to Tasmania and an industry multi-award-winning airport.
Culture and Values:
By joining the team at Melbourne Airport, you will work within a friendly, high-performance culture with a focus on our people and their development.
Our vision is to become Australia's favourite Airport destination and our people are paramount to achieving this success. We provide a supportive environment, with values that encourage all of our employees to Be You, Think Big, Own it and Work Together.
Benefits:
- Access to airport car parking 24 hours/365 days a year for both business and personal use
- Hybrid flexible working arrangements
- Airport Holiday, an additional day of leave
- Wellness Day, a further additional day of leave
- Discounted onsite childcare at Creative Garden Early Learning
- Mental health and well-being initiatives
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Career and professional development
- Active social culture and participation in a range of social impact days and activities
- Signature Experiences including an airfield family day, and kids’ footy day
- Access to an employee benefits scheme including access to corporate rates and airport retailer discounts (including SkyBus)
APAC is committed to weaving Diversity into our DNA. We believe that Diversity and Inclusion will help us realise our greatest potential as a company, and maximise the potential of all our team members. We strive to create a culture where our team members understand that each individual is unique and that embracing diversity makes us more flexible, productive, and creative.
APAC provides equal opportunity and advancement in employment regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, cultural background, caring responsibilities, disability or socioeconomic background. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who share our workplace values of Being You, Thinking Big, Owning It and Working Together.