Estates Manager

Estates Manager

Contract: Permanent

Location: Field-based, with travel to our Nottingham Support Office twice per week

Recruitment Partner: Olivia Wilson

What you'll be doing

Based in our Nottingham support office, the Estates Team operates as a trusted property advisor to the business, often being the lynchpin between other key departments. We advise across a large, mature portfolio with significant opportunities to add and return value year-on-year whether through new or existing footprint. There's always a commercial opportunity to consider while balancing a mix of retail and pharmacy operations, locations, premium beauty brands and store configurations to ultimately deliver best value. We are now looking for an experienced Estates Manager to join the team. The successful candidate will have good all-round property experience, commercial acumen and a high level of drive to succeed. This is a field-based role, with regular travel required to our Nottingham head office twice a week.

Key responsibilities

• Reporting to the Regional Estates Manager you will have responsibility for a diverse workload including:
• Acquisition of new stores in some of the busiest high streets and retail parks
• Negotiating the best commercial terms in the market with Landlords on all aspects of lease renewals, rental transactions and property management.
• Leading the performance of external advisors to deliver on time and under budget.
• Actively managing a portfolio of stores to ensure lease compliance
• Advising the business on all aspects of property management including lease obligations, dilapidations and actively managing our sublet portfolio.
• Assisting teams on business projects to deliver measurable results.
• Financially appraising and evaluating property transactions along with preparing and presenting approval papers.

What you'll need to have (our must-haves)

• Your degree in Real Estate Management and Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with 5 years post qualification experience.
• The best candidate will have the following experience.
• Work collaboratively as part of a team of professionals to deliver business objectives.
• Commercially aware, being analytical and using financial knowledge to bring an innovative approach to property solutions.
• Self‑motivated and results focused to meet budget requirements with trust.

Rewards designed for you

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.