Commercial Asset Manager (12 month FTC)

About Lendlease
Lendlease is Australia’s leading real estate business with International operations. Our core expertise is in Investment Management, Development, and Construction. For more than 60 years, we have created thriving places around the globe.

Lendlease’s global investment management platform spans Asia, Australia, Americas and Europe. Our investment professionals manage approximately A$48.9 billion globally in property assets via funds and separate mandates.

We invest on behalf of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, investment managers and insurance companies, offering our investment partners access to quality property assets.

About the Role

Lendlease is recruiting for a Commercial Asset Manager on a 12 month fixed-term contract. The Commercial Asset Manager will Monitor and drive asset performance against the asset business plans for 21 Moorfields (single let commercial office) and The Turing Building, Stratford (a part leased multi-let commercial office) build focusing on ongoing performance, medium-term strategies and initiatives to drive asset value enhancement and support leasing activities. Provide specialised knowledge to colleagues and peers throughout RIBA development phases.
 

Act as a subject matter expert advising Asset Management and contributing to the development of appropriate asset management budgets, performance forecasts and asset reinvestment plans

• Oversee Property Manager/s ensuring they are delivering services to a high standard, on time and on budget, including reporting and the provision of asset-level data
• Managing a range of third parties to deliver high-quality outcomes
• Participation in the valuation process, including liaising with independent valuers to provide relevant data and preliminary briefings
• Finalising asset valuations to present to the Fund Manager to assess the impact on returns and support informed decision making
• Support leasing manager to drive occupancy and building adaptability.
• Work with peers across the business, including development colleagues, to advise and provide guidance on the design process, ensuring operational excellence 
• Establish a vision and strategy for commercial, operational excellence and asset management in the region and seek endorsement with third-party support and execute the delivery of the roll-out successfully 
• Where and if required provide support for disposal / reinvestment / capital strategy of the buildings Report to third party investors on quarterly or as required basis, working with Fund Management teams
• Opportunity to gain a breadth of experience as the growth strategy unfolds including potential exposure to life science sector

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Property, Economics, Business, or Finance, combined with advanced knowledge of the role. 
• Experience in a commercial office asset management role, and/or expert knowledge of property/asset management industries, asset valuations methodologies and principles, strong project management, planning and communication skills, including written and verbal communication. 
• Experience in stakeholder management
• Fund modelling experience.

Benefits of working at Lendlease

• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private medical health benefit and dental plan options
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• Wellbeing leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee assistance program
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide

To find out more about us and to explore all other opportunities visit www.lendlease.com/careers

Lendlease is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/ or disabled.