Estates Manager

4 days ago

Coventry, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

Why join us


Joining Sainsbury's as an Estates Manager offers a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in the proactive and effective management of our extensive property portfolio. If you are a talented professional with strong estates management experience, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and a passion for optimising the property portfolio, joining us will provide rewarding environment where you can make a tangible impact within the retail industry.

What you'll do


As an Estates Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in the proactive and effective management of the Sainsbury's & Argos extensive property portfolio. Your responsibilities will encompass various aspects of estate management, such as proactively managing leases and associated lease transactions, managing external consultants, minimising property costs, formulating recommendations on Landlord and Tenant matters, and building relationships with landlords and tenants. Additionally, you will liaise with internal stakeholders, including Store Managers and Regional Operation Managers, and oversee the implementation of internal projects impacting the Sainsbury's & Argos estate. Your role will require staying updated with market trends, maintaining accurate databases and trackers, and actively managing landlord and tenant and service charge consultants, amongst others and liaising with internal FM teams. Critically, with the operational estate, to minimise disruption to trade by utilising these relationships and skills and finding resolutions to estate issues.

Overall, your success will be measured by effectively managing lease transactions, managing trade disruption effectively, implementing projects impacting the property portfolio, and ensuring the best commercial settlements for Sainsbury's.

Who you are


As the Estates Manager, you are a highly knowledgeable and experienced professional with a strong background in property management. With relevant property experience and ideally membership in RICS, you possess a deep understanding of lease events, landlord and tenant matters, and property market trends. Your strong commercial acumen and ability to use your own initiative allow you to proactively manage the Sainsbury's & Argos portfolio, minimising property costs and maximising flexibility within the designated region. Your excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders enable you to effectively collaborate with store managers, regional operation managers, landlords, and tenants. As a strategic thinker, you continuously seek ways to improve processes and drive the best commercial settlements for Sainsbury's. 

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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