Property and Centre Management Manager

About the job

The Migros Vaud Cooperative Society has nearly 3,200 employees and currently operates a network of around sixty stores in the canton. Its Real Estate department manages, enhances, and develops a diverse portfolio including shopping centres, retail spaces, and investment properties. Following the departure of the current post holder, Migros Vaud wishes to entrust the responsibility of its Property Management and Centre Management service to a new person. The challenge will be to ensure continuity, take over responsibility for the team and develop it, and support a department set to play a central role in light of the cooperative's development ambitions. To meet these challenges, we are looking for a

Property and Centre Management Manager

Lead, enhance and develop a real estate portfolio at the heart of commercial activity

Your responsibilities

As Head of Service, you will lead the Property Management and Centre Management of Migros Vaud. Leading a small team, you set priorities, organise activities, and develop your employees' autonomy. A significant part of your role concerns retail spaces: you maintain relationships with brands and partners, conduct lease negotiations, contribute to finding new tenants, and support the portfolio's development. You also oversee the rest of the real estate portfolio, including investment properties, relying on your team's expertise. You monitor key financial and operational indicators, asset profitability, and service quality, while evolving practices, organisation, and service performance.

Your profile

As a hands-on manager, you know how to unite, empower, and develop a team while staying close to the field and directly engaging in cases when necessary. Pragmatic, results-oriented, and possessing excellent interpersonal skills, you combine high standards, a service mindset, and decisiveness. Your commercial acumen and market knowledge enable you to identify the right contacts, build lasting relationships, and defend the organisation's interests. You have proven experience in commercial real estate, retail, or centre management and understand the challenges related to retail space marketing and commercial leases. Comfortable in negotiations, you ideally have an established network among actors in the French-speaking Swiss market. Additional experience in residential property management is an asset.