Job Overview:
To deliver in the most cost-effective manner the growth of the regional property portfolio required to deliver the Group strategy. To manage the portfolio to maximise returns and minimise outgoings.
Responsibilities:
- Acquire new properties across multiple countries in the assigned region
- Negotiate lease renewals in the region in accordance with current Group strategy
- Authorize and negotiate rent and service charge payments to minimise outgoings.
- Secure landlord's consent and other permits where required e.g. shopfitting, store opening, refits etc.
- Negotiate repairing liabilities and dilapidations claims to limit liabilities.
- Annual analysis and preparation of budget rents
- Travel to different sites when required
Key Outputs:
- Deliver acquisitions, disposals, lease renewals, regears and portfolio management in line with annually agreed KPI's and annual budgets.
- Delivering agreed property strategy and identifying/pursuing additional opportunities to enhance property portfolio.
- Communicating with key personnel to ensure a cohesive delivery of strategy objectives.
- Maintain a highly professional reputation for the department within the external market.
- Instructing and managing a high-quality network of external consultants and solicitors.
- Review and influence strategy by country.
Key Relationships:
- Head of Properties
- Acquisitions and Estates Managers
- Construction/PM
- Retail FM and Maintenance manager
- Other property team members
- Head of Retail and Outlet Regional Manager
- Finance team
- External consultants & solicitors
- Landlords, other retailer property teams, tenants and developers/investors
Qualifications:
Essential Knowledge:
- Chartered Surveyor (member of RICS) or similar qualifications with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience
- Degree or similar level
- Retail Property Market in full price High Street and Factory Outlet environments
Basic Skills:
- Full working knowledge of property law including legal frameworks for key markets
- Strong negotiating skills and proven record of successful property transactions.
- Languages - Needs to be able to communicate effectively in English and ideally fluent/native in one of the local country languages
- Computer skills – Proficient Excel/Word/Outlook/PowerPoint user
Successful Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years post-qualification retail property experience.
- Management of multi-site retail property portfolio.
- Acquisition, lease renewal and property management experience.
Competencies:
- Create successful working relationships with people at all business levels
- Ability to prioritize
- Ability to operate in a pressured, time-critical environment
- Influencing
- Collaboration
- Organization and planning
- Team player
- Initiator
About Clarks
Two brothers, a small town, and shoes that changed the world. Based in Somerset, England, Clarks has redefined shoemaking since its foundation in 1825, when James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts and forever transformed the future of footwear.
Sparking revolutions and defining generations, our archive of over 25,000 shoes includes the inimitable Clarks Desert Boot™ and Clarks Wallabee™. And every pair we design today uses the same ground-breaking combination of invention and craftsmanship that started it all.
Progress is woven into our DNA. Whether we're pioneering cutting-edge comfort technologies, championing social change, or working on trailblazing collaborations with cultural icons and KOLs, we're always striding forward.
Join us in 2025 as we celebrate 200 years of giving people the freedom to move comfortably, proudly commemorating our legacy of craft, innovation, and impact – and looking boldly ahead, too.
