Leasing Manager

Full Time position based at **Essence Communities Kangaroo Point**:

- Work with a friendly, supportive, and collaborative team
- Grow your career with a company that supports training and personal development

**Why Essence Communities**

Essence Communities is a part of Australia’s leading student accommodation provider, UniLodge. Our property management platform is shaped from a 25+ year track record in property and asset management. Our foundation of experience and expertise propels our operation to lead the transformation of Australia’s rental sector.

Essence Communities offers premium rental-only apartment living in the heart of Brisbane with a focus on community & lifestyle. Essence Communities provide enhanced lifestyle with services on demand such as cleaners, dog walkers, personal trainers, dry-cleaning while on-site staff help residents take care of their daily grind. Located close to public transport and popular venues such as Story Bridge Hotel, Sea Legs Brewery and The Gabba.

**WHO YOU ARE**

You are passionate about leasing and delivering an exemplary level of service at every point of the leasing journey for current and prospective residents. With prior leasing experience in residential property management, you’ll need to be proactive and adopt a mix of short
- and long-term strategies to retain and nurture existing residents and bring in new business. It’s important that you’re a strong communicator and a natural at managing relationships. You will have strong commercial acumen and demonstrated understanding of state legislation and leasing process.

The property industry is fast paced and competitive, so you will need a positive, flexible and committed approach. You will have a natural ability to think on your feet, and to resolve problems as they arise. Our residents come from all walks of life, so it is important you are culturally aware and understanding of different cultures and backgrounds.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**

Your responsibilities as Leasing Manager will include but not be limited to:

- Drive leasing to ensure occupancy is kept in line with budget, ensuring vacancy is minimised.
- Work in partnership with property owner to implement strategic leasing initiatives to ensure rental income is optimised.
- Achieve a minimum level of conversion on renewals
- Drive discussions on optimising rents and the use of incentives with both new & renewal leases.
- Work with Resident Community Manager & General Manager to discuss maximising resident amenity and ancillary revenue partnerships which will in turn assist to sell and push premium rents.
- Sell the benefits of build to rent, including the premium services offered in the building and the provision of a secure and desirable alternative to home ownership for long-term renters.
- Maintain the database, including data entry through the CRM tools and PMS.
- Issue the appropriate documentation to tenants where required in accordance with state legislation.
- Deliver feedback and advice to the General Manager after inspections, making recommendations where necessary to improve rental tenancy conversions.

Our mandatory requirements include:

- Current **QLD** - Registration Certificate lodged with the Office of Fair-Trading QLD
- National Police Check (completed within last 3 months), at your own cost
- Unrestricted work rights in Australia and New Zealand

**WHY ESSENCE COMMUNITIES**

Across our workforce we have built an enviable culture of
**_trust_**:

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**_engagement_**:

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**_collaboration_**, and
**_fun_**. Our residents come from diverse backgrounds, and we want our teams to reflect this. Our people are the heart of our business, and their contributions are valued and celebrated. We invest in the wellbeing and professional development of our team, offering access to ongoing training and professional development, career progression, development reviews, and employee assistance program (EAP) services. We acknowledge that everyone leads unique lives, and therefore offer various leave options including study leave, parental leave entitlements, etc.

**HOW YOU CAN APPLY