Real Estate Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS:

• Plans and executes Real Estate strategy aligned to business strategy and objectives across Americana
• Undertake Sites Acquisitions of the Company new units throughout the Market we operate in principally by overseeing the Identification and securing of sites to hand-over to Construction and pipe-line communication.
• Handles financial operations of the property such as preparing and maintaining financial statements.
• Maintaining awareness of new strategic developments and liaising with Market Planning.
• Ensure new pipelines are well developed in advance to meet growth expectations.
• Review Market insights gathering and analysis to take effective steps to serve the company's best interest.
• Monitor Lease negotiation & signing, including rental reduction negotiations.
• Ensure Accuracy in forecasting the number of new restaurants opening by period/year.
• Monitor and track the reported pipeline and forecasts on a monthly basis, Drive the setting of AOP and ensure accuracy of monthly Fits tracking reports.
• Responsibility for prioritization and Identification of sites and their negotiations, ensuring financial viability and reviewing feasibility studies, assessing planning probabilities then managing the planning and legal process for acquisitions.
• Formulate pipeline reports together with information dissemination throughout various brands.
• Develop cost effective real estate solutions in alignment with business needs including parameters for location, lease vs. own, length of lease term, financial commitment, exit strategies and operating expense budgets.
• Acts as a single contact point for outside agents, retailers and potential vendors/landlords.
• Lead the Acquisitions Team in building a constructive and strategic relationship with Franchise partners while maintaining an up to date working knowledge of Franchisor areas.
• Lead strategy to minimize property cost inflation for the restaurants portfolio and deliver reduced cost to the business
• Establish strategies & encourage best practice for effective negotiation to ensure cost savings and effective investments.
• Role models compliance with Americana processes, internal policies, code of conduct and core value behaviors;
• Is accountable for team performance coaches, mentors the team for KPIs realization in line with Americana culture;

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION & EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION

1. Finance and Planning team
2. Legal Team
3. Brands Leads
4. All departments
5. Landlords
6. Landlords
7. Franchisor

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Education:

• BSc/BA in business Management or any related field

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Knowledge:

• Thorough understanding of Retail or Hospitality industries and trends
• Strong knowledge of applicable property law, taxes and financial statements in the country to ensure efficient management of property.
• Knowledge of lease negotiations, asset management, triple net leases, requisition for loan disbursements, retainage and lien waivers.

Skills:

• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills
• Highly developed negotiation, consensus building and communication skills
• Strong strategic and business acumen
• Able to analyze problems and strategize for better solutions