Retail Estates Assistant in Birmingham

Colliers is a leading commercial real estate services company, providing a full range of services to real estate occupiers, developers, and investors on a local, national, and international basis. Services include brokerage sales and leasing (landlord and tenant representation), real estate management, valuation, consulting, project management, project marketing and research. We provide our services across the core sectors (office, industrial, retail and hotel) as well as many specialised property types. The UK business is headquartered in London, with over 1200 specialists throughout 16 offices across the UK and Ireland.

Are you an organised, proactive individual with a passion looking to develop a career in retail estates management? Colliers is seeking a Junior Retail Estates Assistant to join our dynamic retail and leisure management team based at the prestigious 103 Colmore Row office in Birmingham. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to start a career in supporting Destination Management within a fast-paced, professional environment. Colliers Thrive is our new data driven approach to creating and managing spaces that empower communities to flourish, we create vibrant and inviting destinations that people want to visit and this is a new exciting position to join our team!

If this role aligns with your skills and aspirations, we encourage you to apply. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

• Assist Property Managers with destination administration including co-ordination of destination reports and business plans as required.
• Assist the Place Activation Manager with compiling commercialisation reports, Mystery guest visit evaluations, administration and managing information request returns from destination teams.
• Assist Centre/Destination managers to compile a record of destination’s environmental and social value achievements for impact reporting.
• Assist with the development of standard forms and procedures, including producing concise case studies in collaboration with destination managers.
• Data management - Including collection of footfall analytical data from individual destinations to provide trend information across destinations for stakeholders.
• Maintain up to date information files for destination use via the Place Manager’s team’s hub.
• Maintain strong relationships with destination on site management teams.
• Build strong relationships with occupiers and respond to queries.

Qualifications

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Data collection, management, and analysis abilities.
• Clear written communication and report-writing skills.
• Ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborative working style across multiple teams.
• Ability to contribute fresh, creative ideas to strengthen marketing initiatives.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proactive problem-solving and ability to manage multiple tasks independently.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

Additional Information

Please tell us what would help you take part and give enough practical detail for us to arrange it. We will handle your request confidentially, and it will not affect how you are assessed. We make reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010.

At Colliers, we empower people to perform at their best. As a Disability Confident Employer, we want every candidate to feel welcome. If anything would help you take part in our process, such as extra time or rest breaks, step-free access, or a different interview format, please tell us in your application. You are not expected to share a diagnosis or medical history.

Colliers is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age; disability; gender; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins); religion or belief; sex; or sexual orientation. We also value diverse experience and neurodiversity.

We are not engaging with recruitment agencies at this time. Unsolicited CVs will not be considered and treated as gifts.