Shopping Centre Manager

Zohorecruit; Potchefstroom; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Potchefstroom, SA is seeking a Centre Manager to optimize trading opportunities, manage leases, and ensure financial performance of the portfolio.

You will lead budgeting, building management, facilities maintenance, and tenant installations, while supervising staff and service contractors.

The role requires 3–5 years of retail centre management experience, a Fidelity Fund Certificate and PPRA compliance, plus strong tenant relations.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant experience in property/centre management.
• Valid Fidelity Fund Certificate and PPRA compliance.
• Proven retail centre management experience, including leasing, staff supervision and customer service.
• Ability to coordinate budgets, income and expense control.
• Proven track record in optimizing income streams and tenant mix.

Responsibilities

• People Management: training, development, and upholding company values.
• Marketing of space and renewals: vacancy management, lease negotiations, and broker communications.
• Administration: ensure documentation and installations are timely and accurate.
• Property Management: prepare management packs and coordinate meetings.
• Budgeting: contribute to income and expense budgets.
• Income monitoring: track rent collection and follow up on delinquencies.

Skills

People management

Lease negotiations

Budgeting

Tenant relations

Job description

Full time

Potchefstroom, South Africa

We are seeking a Centre Manager to manage the building byoptimizing all trading opportunities, including lease agreements, and ensuringthat the portfolio’s financial performance remains sound and optimizing thebuilding's income stream by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficialrelationships with tenants, managing and controlling personnel, servicecontractors, repairs, revamps, tenant installations, inspections, and generalbuilding administration.

This position will require an all-rounded propertyprofessional.

In this role, you will lead efforts in budgeting and expensecontrol, building management and administration, facilities maintenance, andtenant installations. Some of the most important tasks include the following:

• PeopleManagement:Training & development, Corporate culture change,living the values of the company
  
• Marketing of Space & Renewals: Ensure the correctness of the vacancy,marketing plan based on vacancy list, including determining tenant mix, leasenegotiations according to approval framework & mandate, draft motivationfor approvals of deals, communication with brokers, sustainable income streamsecured whilst taking account of the viability of tenant (trade densities) andrequired tenant mix, as well as profile and image of the building, retain orreplace tenant in time at an optimal rate, contract
  
• administrationis accurate, complete, and on time, tenants fully installed and in time asper, specifications within the agreed time frame, attract and approvetargeted tenants.
  
• PropertyManagement: Prepare the management pack, in conjunction with Finance,coordinate, arrange & attend management meetings.
  
• Budgeting:Income & Expense Control
  
• Budgeting:Provideinputs into income & expense budgets based on knowledge of theproperty market in the cluster, manage income & expenses
  
• Income:Monitoractual income vs. budget, evaluate outstanding rent-roll -by timeouslyfollowing-up & implementing corrective measures, involvement & monitoringof legal cases, vacant space strategy in conjunction with the RegionalManager, confirm the validity of transactions for commission claims
  

Requirements

• Between3 – 5 years of relevant experience in the property/centre managementindustry
  

Musthold a valid Fidelity Fund Certificate and satisfy the requirements as setout by the PPRA and current legislation for the position.

• Provenretail shopping centre management experience, including overseeing dailyoperations, staff supervision, leasing management and customer service ina retail environment.