Development Executive- Retail

Development Executive- Retail

Your opportunity

The Development, Design & Construction (DD&C) team brings our strategic vision to life by shaping, building and delivering our assets. From early-stage planning and design through to construction and handover, the team creates high-quality, sustainable, and innovative spaces that enhance the experience for our customers, retailers, and communities. DD&C ensures that our centres continue to evolve, stay relevant, and drive long-term value for the business.

Day-to-day you will be responsible for:

Development Executives guide DD&C projects across our portfolio. This means securing regulatory and co-owner approvals, managing budgets and SAP‐aligned initiatives, and translating strategic masterplans into delivered value—ensuring each project drives asset growth and aligns with our long-term strategy.

• Lead projects end-to-end, from briefing through to hand-over.
• Secure approvals & funding by drafting enterprise briefs and obtaining sign-off from Asset Management, Group Ops, partners and regulators.
• Manage SAP roll-outs by implementing all SAP changes for DD&C, ensuring correct setup and data.
• Shape asset plans; feed into feasibility studies, disposals, acquisitions and long-term masterplans.
• Coordinate capital transfers such as handling leasing changes, renewals and downsizes for each asset
• Plan & prioritise balanced development and operational capital projects across multiple assets.
• Collaborate regularly to align scope, budget and timing with Finance, Legal, Planning, Asset Teams and co-owners.
• Lead forums: run DCMs, PCGs and project check-ins; resolve day-to-day queries and escalate as needed.
• You influence planning controls and local frameworks by managing council and state relationships.

What sets
you
apart

• You're a reflective learner, capturing lessons from every project, refining processes, and sharing tips with your peers.
• You will have experience working on Retail or Mixed-Use projects
• Coaching others on things such as approvals, budgeting and system use to help them grow comes naturally to you.
• Past challenges have made you persistent—you stay focused and positive when the unexpected happens, showing that you are steady under pressure.
• You build genuine relationships—whether with project teams, council officers or JV partners—and keep dialogue open.
• You take responsibility for every stage of delivery, follow through on commitments and keep others informed.
• When priorities shift or approvals stall, you adapt calmly and find new ways forward.
• You use strategic tactics like market and portfolio insights to shape smart development recommendations and spot new ideas.
• You anticipate risks—whether regulatory, competitive or budgetary—and propose practical fixes.
• Using your commercial awareness, you balance cost, time and quality to deliver the best outcome for the business.

About us

Scentre Group owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.

We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.

With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has the expertise to design, construct, operate, manage and market our Westfield destinations and platforms.

We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect, inspire and develop you, and that you will do work that matters.

Diversity, equity and inclusion underpins our culture, and our vision is that 'Everyone Belongs'. We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.

We aspire to create a workforce reflective of the communities in which we operate and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or life stage.

We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period, and free parking at your local Westfield destination.

Discover more about working with us.

Applications close: Friday 12th September(unless filled prior).

Please note: Recruitment for this role will be sourced directly through our internal Talent Team. We will not be partnering with agencies for this role. Scentre Group does not accept floated candidate CVs.