Lease Manager AT (m/f/d)

Job Description

As a Lease Manager for Austria, you will be responsible for managing the store portfolio within the H&M Group, including offices, warehouses, and more, within a specific geographic area in Austria. You optimize the existing store potential through targeted lease actions, such as renegotiations and rebuilds, and identifying the best locations for new stores. By doing that, you enable long term growth.

Key responsibilities:

• Negotiating and re-negotiating commercial and legal terms of lease agreements with landlords and present them for approval by regional management.
• Defining the portfolio strategy by developing and maintaining the road map for your geographic area.
• Ensure the store portfolio is commercially competitive in your geographic area and beats local competition in terms of customer experience by optimizing store locations and types, adding new stores, and optimizing existing ones in your geographic area and for each brand.
• Recommend the full business case in terms of fit with market strategy, location requirements, commercial idea, configuration of space, economic and legal terms, as well as risk assessment.
• Collaborating with internal functions, including the store design team in Sweden, and other departments such as construction, facility management, business tech & operations, the business analyst, and legal to ensure the best possible deal for the H&M Group.
• Being responsible for the full P&L optimization in your portfolio, driving long term optimization of absolute profit, sales, and return of investment (ROI). To optimize ROI, you will closely collaborate with the construction department to determine the right investment levels.

Qualifications

To be successful in the role as Lease Manager, we believe you are ambitious, self-driven, competitive, and humble. You value taking responsibility and are motivated by creating change. You work strategically and have a multibrand and multichannel perspective. We also believe you have strong communication skills and the ability to convince. You are socially confident in negotiations and are not afraid to leave your comfort zone.

What you need to succeed:

• At least 3 years of working experience from leasing, controlling and/or real estate, preferably within the retail industry.
• Leasing skills and good legal understanding.
• Strategic planning and long-term vision.
• Planning and strong prioritization skills.
• Ability to stay calm in difficult situations and when working under pressure.
• Good financial understanding.
• Experience with Power BI and MS Office.
• Fluency in English and German, both written and spoken.

Additional Information

This full-time position is based in Austria, preferably Vienna. Apply by sending in your CV in German or English as soon as possible, but no later than the 7th of July . Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Benefits
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases. 

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