Lettings Manager - Award Winning Property Company in Leeds

Travel to the portfolio across the North West (main focus) as well as travel to other areas as and when required.

Role overview

We’re looking for a great lettings surveyor who can help manage our vast portfolio.

The successful candidate will work from our head office in Manchester, with an appetite to market our space to prospective occupiers across the country. You’ll use your experience to negotiate with customers, closing deals that welcome new businesses into our portfolio – where space ranges from small offices for start-ups, to big workspaces, restaurant spaces, bars, galleries, shops and leisure spaces.

You’ll ideally be RICS qualified, with an appetite to close deals and implement an abundance of ideas.

In return, you’ll get a great package that includes flexible and hybrid working, an annual donation to a charity of your choice, healthcare, paid annual leave – and an additional 10 days paid dependency leave for when you need to provide emergency care for your family

Key responsibilities

• Negotiate lease terms either directly or through agents. Leading the lettings and sales process including the identification of tenants/buyers, negotiating terms, licences, and other legal documentation.
• Conduct directly and/or attend viewings with agents.
• Take ownership of the marketing of the space, how it presents and is marketed to the outside world.
• Ensure that the Urban Splash brand is maintained / enhanced and that the space we are offering meets customer demands.
• Work closely with commercial team and asset managers to get best value for the portfolio. This may include negotiating lease renewals and rent reviews although the asset manager normally lead on these.
• Ensure that all sales material, marketing boards and website are all up to date and liaising with the marketing team to achieve the same. Ensuring that agents websites are up to date.
• Co-ordinate and liaise with present and prospective tenants on fit out approvals, site works, and the completion of Licence to alter where required.
• Lead on legal negotiations with our lawyers to ensure closure of deals.
• Update leasing schedule, monitoring results and analysis of leasing enquires.
• Initiate and attend property launches and marketing events where required.
• Provide commercial advice to the development team for new schemes as and when required.
• Other ad-hoc duties, when necessitated by the needs of the business.

Constantly review the portfolio and advise on works needed to upgrade the portfolio through Capex to ensure it presents as an Urban Splash building should, and to ensure that our ESG targets are met. This will include duties as follows:

• Be a key member of the commercial team advising when capex upgrades are required for both common areas and individual suites.
• Ensure that the scheme is fully marketed. Liaison with internal and external marketing team members and graphics designers to ensure the scheme achieves maximum exposure.
• Keep close to the market and our agents to ensure that we are offering space that the market wants such as the right sized units and fitted out propositions.

Skills, knowledge and experience

The most important attribute is that candidates have a transactional background and can negotiate and close deals.

Qualifications

Ideally candidates will be degree educated and RICS qualified or equivalent, or on the path to the same.

Who we are

We’re an award-winning regeneration company based in Manchester but working across England. Since 1993, we’ve built more than 6,000 new homes and two million sq ft of workspace, and we’ve won more than 480 awards for our work too.

Why US?

We’ve got an exciting future ahead, creating even more places for people to live, work and play. We’re on with plans for 4,500 new homes and 500,000 sq ft of commercial space in the next five years in places like Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Plymouth, Birmingham and the Lake District, and we’ll continue to nurture our portfolio of workspaces up and down the country,

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