Head of Retail

Job description / Role

A leading, global property management company with operations throughout Africa is currently recruiting for a Head of Retail to run large Shopping Centre/Malls in East Africa.

This is a varied role and involves working at senior level within a good quality Shopping Centre. You need strong management skills (ideally gained within a shopping centre environment), able to make decisions, be a confident people person, proactive attitude and have excellent budgetary management skills.

The successful Shopping Centre Manager will be responsible for the following:

Effective management of the shopping centre, ensuring all Planned and Reactive Maintenance is carried out.
Maximise revenue opportunities through effective management of tenants.
Management of Centre and tenant contractors.
Maximise the foot fall potential of the Mall space.
Implement management processes and systems to train local staff.

Requirements

The ideal Shopping Centre Manager will have the following background:

At least 5-8 years experience of managing shopping centres and malls in the United Kingdom.
An experienced property professional with experience of service charge provision.
A track record of maximising Centre Revenue through management of tenants.
Property related qualification.
A desire to move your career to an exciting growth market in East Africa.

The role offers a fantastic salary including an expat package including accommodation, transport and schools fees where necessary.

Please apply now with an updated CV online.

Please also refer this to anyone who is interested in furthering their career in East Africa.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.