Leasing Manager - Retail
The Focus Group
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior position
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Johannesburg
- Posted 10 Mar 2026 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2634935
About the position
Leasing Manager - Liberty
Job Description
As a Leasing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in negotiating and finalizing lease agreements within defined parameters. Your focus will be on balancing tenant needs with the company’s strategic and financial objectives, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes without compromising organizational interests.
What you will bring
Inherent requirements for the position (non-negotiable)
- Minimum Grade 12.
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in the Leasing environment
- Valid Fidelity Fund Certificate
Additional demonstrable requirements:
- Computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office and property management systems.
- Strong negotiating skills with the ability to secure favorable lease terms.
- Numerical aptitude to interpret financial data and rental structures.
- Contract comprehension with the ability to interpret and apply lease agreements.
- Sound knowledge of the legal context governing commercial leases and property law.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with tenants and stakeholders.
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and problem-solving ability.
What you will be doing
Strategic Leasing
- Develop and implement the annual leasing strategy.
- Ensure all renewals and new leases are negotiated timeously and professionally, in line with company/client policies.
- Accurately prepare, compile, and sign off lease agreements.
- Implement processes to track outstanding leases and FICA documentation, escalating where necessary.
Tenant & Broker Relations
- Maintain positive relationships with tenants and brokers to support retention and growth.
- Compile and distribute monthly vacancy schedules to brokers.
- Grow and manage the broker database.
- Attend to prospective tenants and brokers, including space showings.
Financial & Reporting
- Prepare and manage income budgets and annual budgets.
- Produce accurate status reports, monthly variance reports, forecasts, TI schedules, broker commission schedules, and internal commission schedules.
- Compile monthly Manco reports for the commercial portfolio.
- Manage tender applications and commission packs prior to client sign-off.
- Approve workflows on SAP.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure tenant files are kept up to date with relevant correspondence.
- Support other business units when required.
- Meet deadlines for monthly trackers, TI meetings, and broker commission updates.
- Check and sign off motivations for client approval.
Leadership
Provide effective staff management, ensuring team performance aligns with business objectives.
Desired Skills:
- Leasing
- Negotiating
- Networking
- Retail
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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