Senior Property Manager

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: St Leonards, Sydney

Job Category: Property,Site Management

We are Indara
As a leading owner and operator of shared digital infrastructure, Indara is the glue that makes all kinds of relationships work. Our crucial infrastructure enables over 90% of the Australian population to connect, bringing people together, and connecting them with the technology powering our world today: from smart phones to smart meters to AI and the Internet.

Join our #Remarkable team to deliver our Purpose to accelerate a digitised future for our communities.

#BeRemarkable at Indara
Your best work happens in an environment where you're surrounded by people who encourage you to be your best self, that champions new ideas and embraces new technology.

At Indara, we're aligned by purpose, driven by innovation, and energised by what we'll do next – together.

We'll Empower You To

So Come, #BeRemarkable at Indara
Job Description
Reporting to the National Manager, Landlord Relations & Asset Management, this role is critical to the business as it is core to our customer value proposition of getting our customers on site quickly and efficiently.

This role is responsible for reviewing our customers' applications from a property perspective and assessing the property requirements for those applications. Provide property advice, build relationships with our landlords, negotiate commercial terms, find alternative solutions and seek opportunities with landlords to secure tenure and improve consent provisions on Indara's sites.

Key Responsibilities Will Include
Consents

• Determine the consent requirements on incoming customer applications, review lease documentation and liaise with legal team as required.
• Prepare and forward consent correspondence to landlords
• Maintain or develop positive relationships with landowners.
• Obtain consents from landlords or their representative where necessary, in a timely and cost efficient manner.
• Undertake conflict resolution with landlords, where required and resolve property related issues
• End to end ownership of the property deal, ensuring all databases are updated with information regarding consents
• Provide regular feedback on progress to Sales and Co-location teams in a timely manner.
• Attend meetings as required with Sales, Co-location and/or Property regarding applications and consents.
• Provide regular reports to in relation to progress of consents, concerns with landlords or any applications and escalate any problem sites to relevant stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities with landlords to improve consent provisions or establish agreed protocols
• Identify opportunities with landlords to secure Indara's tenure on sites long term.
• Identify and resolve access issues that may delay a customer in commencing its installation works on site.
• Pro-actively manage Sales and Co-location representatives on expected timeframes
• Take ownership of applications during the property consent phase.

Acquire Additional Lease Area Under The BASS/S&R Process

• Determine the best solution for the organisation in acquiring additional land as a result of customer requirements
• Negotiate the best outcome for the organisation both from a cost perspective and from an operational perspective.
• Provide professional advice to the Sales/Co-location team in relation to property aspects and provide regular reports to Management.
• Secure long term tenure on site where possible without delaying our customer by way of purchase or long term lease for the whole site in accordance with the PEP process.

Other

• Secure long term tenure on site where possible in accordance with the PEP process
• Investigate impact of any surrounding DA applications on the site and identify sites where action is required to protect the organisation's investment
• Negotiate access licences where required
• Resolve and provide advice to SMC regarding access or site issues identified (separate to customer related applications)
• Develop relationships with landlords as part of the landlord engagement strategy
• Assist the Property & Asset Management team as required on property management issues, difficult sites and access issues to protect Indara's tenure and solve property issues with owners.

Desired Skills And Experience
To be successful in this role you will:

• Be an analytical thinker with a results focus
• Have excellent commercial negotiation skills, including lease and contract negotiation
• Be a confident, succinct communicator with ability to quickly identify key issues
• Have strong knowledge of the telecommunications industry
• Have extensive property management experience
• The ability to take direction and work productively in a team
• Be able to interact with internal and external stakeholders
• Have demonstrated initiative and business acumen
• Good customer service skills, and be solutions oriented
• Ability to work autonomously and take the initiative

Essential

• Minimum 5 years' experience in the telecommunications industry
• Experience in property management
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills

How we empower you to #BeRemarkable

• BeYou – We create an environment where you are comfortable to be who you are as we know the best you is the one who feels like they belong. We offer hybrid and flexible work solutions, birthday leave, health and financial wellbeing programs
  
• BeChallenged – We provide the opportunity to work on complex and innovative work that creates an impact and promote internal career and secondment opportunities
  
• BeContinuouslyGrowing – We are committed to providing you with the opportunity to be always learning – as part of your role, formal and informal training and development planning
  
• BePartofSomethingBigger – Our Purpose means you'll be working on projects that impact our communities – giving us all the chance to be part of something bigger
  

Equity and Diversity
Indara appreciates the inherent value in a diverse workforce. We aim to ensure that our workforce is free from discrimination and that all employees reach their full potential. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email .

Work Health Safety (WHS), Environment and Compliance
Comply with Indara's WHS, environment and compliance commitments and directions as wet out in the relevant policies and procedures available on the intranet.