Retail Shopping Centre Manager
Ability Recruitment · Soweto
Posted 6 August 2026
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Job Description
We are seeking a Centre Manager to manage the building by optimizing all trading opportunities, including lease agreements, and ensuring that the portfolio’s financial performance remains sound and optimizing the building's income stream by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with tenants, managing and controlling personnel, service contractors, repairs, revamps, tenant installations, inspections, and general building administration. This position will require an all-rounded property professional.
In this role, you will lead efforts in budgeting and expense control, building management and administration, facilities maintenance, and tenant installations. Some of the most important tasks include the following:
- People Management: Training & development, Corporate culture change, living the values of the company
- Marketing of Space & Renewals: Ensure the correctness of the vacancy, marketing plan based on vacancy list, including determining tenant mix, lease negotiations according to approval framework & mandate, draft motivation for approvals of deals, communication with brokers, sustainable income stream secured whilst taking account of the viability of tenant (trade densities) and required tenant mix, as well as profile and image of the building, retain or replace tenant in time at an optimal rate, contract administration is accurate, complete, and on time, tenants fully installed and in time as per, specifications within the agreed time frame, attract and approve targeted tenants.
- Property Management: Prepare the management pack, in conjunction with Finance, coordinate, arrange & attend management meetings.
- Budgeting: Income & Expense Control
- Budgeting: Provide inputs into income & expense budgets based on knowledge of the property market in the cluster, manage income & expenses
- Income: Monitor actual income vs. budget, evaluate outstanding rent-roll -by timeously following-up & implementing corrective measures, involvement & monitoring of legal cases, vacant space strategy in conjunction with the Regional Manager, confirm the validity of transactions for commission claims
Requirements
- Minimum Grade 12 qualification
Posted By
Luisa Da Silva