Senior Regional Estates Manager NEW Croydon Posted today £ Competitive Croydon Head-Office Perm[...]

Superdrug Stores; Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant and innovative retailer dedicated to health and beauty! In this pivotal role, you'll assist in managing a diverse store estate, maximizing profitability while minimizing costs. You'll lead and inspire a team, collaborate on property strategies, and ensure compliance across various brands. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development. Enjoy hybrid working patterns, generous holiday allowances, and a supportive company culture that values your contributions. If you're driven, results-oriented, and passionate about retail, this role is your chance to shine!

Benefits

33 days holiday rising to 38 days

30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products

Company pension matching and bonus

Wagestream access

Unrivaled Learning and Development programs

Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave

Qualifications

• Strong drive and ambition with excellent commercial acumen.
• Ability to manage and inspire a geographically dispersed team.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Head of Estates in managing the store estate effectively.
• Motivate and develop the Estate Management Team to achieve objectives.

Skills

Commercial Acumen

Presentation Skills

Team Management

Negotiation Skills

Education

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Membership

Significant Post-Qualification Experience

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Online Databases

Job description

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Here's the exciting bit…a day includes

This role is in place to assist the Head of Estates in maximising profitability and minimising expenditure through efficient and effective management of A S Watson’s store estate, including Savers, Superdrug, The Perfume Shop, and Three, together with any future brand acquisitions.

A typical day in this role includes:

1. Assisting the Head of Estates in leading the Estate Management Team with direct line management responsibility for Regional Estate Managers (REM).
2. Working with the Head of Estates to define, communicate and implement property strategy for designated brands, providing advice and instructions to REMs in day-to-day matters.
3. Motivating, inspiring, effectively managing, and developing the Team, including managing their PDRs.
4. Overseeing the achievement of Estate Management objectives.
5. Presenting property lease event opportunities direct to the brand UK Board and assisting as needed to provide information for business cases from acquisitions and projects teams.
6. Collaborating with other SREM’s to ensure any cross-brand strategy is fully considered and actioned.
7. Managing external agents and solicitors.
8. Ensuring robust rent budgeting is carried out in a timely manner.
9. Tracking progress of deals from proposal to completion, ensuring accurate documentation is provided in a timely manner.
10. Liaising with the Finance team in responding to queries from Hong Kong on proposals presented for approval, ensuring cases are prioritized if necessary to comply with time constraints.
11. Coordinating closure approvals where necessary, including ensuring dilapidations assessments are requested and proposal papers and necessary information are provided to Hong Kong via the Finance team.
12. Supporting property management and acquisitions teams as needed.
13. Supporting audit processes to ensure compliance.
14. Processing invoices and expense requests in a timely manner and in line with company policies.

This job is a good fit for you if:
You have great drive and ambition to achieve. Your commercial acumen is second to none; you are decisive and results-oriented with a healthy, positive regard for your colleagues. You thrive under pressure and drive to achieve results within tight deadlines. You’re great with people, highly self-motivated, yet able to operate within a team culture. You have strong presentation skills.

What you’ll need:
You will be a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and have significant post-qualification experience. You’ll have extensive knowledge of Landlord and Tenant Legislation, be well connected in property networks, and have a great knowledge of retail market trends. You’ll have the ability to travel nationally and ideally will demonstrate experience of having managed a geographically dispersed team, enabling that team to reach its full potential. Your prior experience will demonstrate successful work in a multi-site, geographically dispersed retail property environment of appropriate scope and scale. You should be proficient in using the Microsoft suite, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, as well as online and internal databases. Line management experience is not essential; however, we will be looking for skills fit for this as it is an important part of this role.

Here's what's in it for you

• 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays).
• 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend.
• 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online.
• Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
• Company pension matching and bonus.
• We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it.
• Being part of more! We are part of a group that works closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop, and Three UK.
• We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
• Unrivaled Learning and Development programs.
• Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay, and pregnancy loss and support.

Come and be part of something special.

Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.

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