Assistant Property Manager

Company Description

At Colliers, we are enterprising. What sets us apart is not what we do, but how we do it. Our people are passionate, take personal responsibility and always do what’s right for our clients, people and communities. We accelerate their success by empowering them to think and act differently to drive exceptional results.

With circa 9,000 experts in Asia Pacific, our enterprising culture and decentralised operating model allows us to act with speed in local markets, seizing opportunities to innovate and accelerate the success of our clients and our people.

Our collaborative culture sets us apart. We help experts become true specialists and provide the long-term structure and platform to accelerate their success.

**Job Description**:
This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Property Manager to join the real estate management team in Canberra. This role is working within a portfolio team across multiple properties for a single client. We are driven to maximise the performance of our client’s assets by developing and implementing commercial property management solutions that enhance value and increase efficiency.

You will build strong relationships with the client’s various stakeholders and tenants to ensure that business objectives are met, and expectations are exceeded. You will successfully achieve this by:

- Positioning and protecting the investment performance of assigned property assets, ensuring profitability through diligent and professional management.
- Undertaking frequent inspections in order to oversee the presentation and maintenance of the property assets, ensuring high standards of appearance at all times.
- Facilitating resources, both in-house and outsourced, promoting an overall team effort to maintain services and resolve property issues.
- Implementing and maintaining orderly lease administration, financial management procedures and overall reporting, including monitoring of all statutory charges and providing the client with recommendations as necessary.
- Ensuring all lease and other documentation is fully executed and in place.
- Liaising regularly with owners regarding all aspects of management, including providing recommendations to the client in accordance with agreed standards and requirements, and conducting the negotiations relating to rent reviews, lease renewals and leasing along with other tenant negotiations as required, in a timely and professional manner.

**Qualifications**:

- Strong working knowledge of building services and real estate market activities, developments and trends to assess possible implications on tenancy, financial and physical aspects.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Exposure to budgeting, forecasting and variance commentary.
- Strong organisational and negotiation skills.
- Ability to build and foster key relationships and your desire to work in a highly team orientated environment.

We are ideally looking for a self-motivated, pro-active individual who can work well on their own as well as having a desire to collaborate and add value to both the client and the wider Real Estate Management team.

If you have the drive, professionalism, and commercial acumen, we will provide you with a supportive and professional environment, autonomy and development for real success.

Additional Information

We foster an environment in which everyone at Colliers feels respected and comfortable bringing their authentic selves to do their best work. It’s our people who set us apart and we actively recruit people who represent the diversity of the communities in which we operate. We take great pride in doing what’s right and operating in ways that benefit the business, our people, our clients, our communities, and the environment.

Experts join experts, and we welcome you to join us as we lead the industry into the future.