Graduate Estates Manager

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Our Mission – we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our Purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits
  - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
• Own itand back yourself
  - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
• Be relevant -Relevantto our people, our partners and the planet

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

We are now seeking a graduate estates manager to assist the highly-successful and performance driven Estates Team that is in place. In this role you will be expected to make an impact and get stuck in from day 1. We do not do things conventionally, and have no expectations of how things ‘should be’ with no process or strategy set in stone.

In this role you will have a real ability to impact and be a part of the ever-changing estates function at Frasers Group. The role will have insight into all levels and areas of the business, not just property matters, giving you an exceptional insight into why our actions and the team’s performance are essential to the success of The Group.
The responsibility.
As part of this role you will gain a wide and varied experience across the estate including property management matters, estates issues, acquisitions, lease event management, property overhead cost control and assisting senior members of the team on an ad-hoc basis

• Manage and own tasks handed down to you by senior team members
• Expected to continually challenge, question and query why and how on all estates matters
• Manage your time and priorities effectively, the Estates Team are often working to hard and critical deadlines and dates
• Be responsible acquisitions in a certain area or assisting senior team members during an acquisition phase
• Assist team members on all estates matters to ensure the estate remains fit for purpose, allowing the retail teams to operate effectively and profitably
• This could mean one day dealing with road works and the council, to the next assisting a team member on a relocation of a profitable store
• Get involved in lease events, whether that’s holding your nerve in a landlord negotiation or engaging our consultants on technical renewals, you will be expected to take ownership of events and report accordingly
• Manage a given geographical area of responsibility in all aspects including business rates, service charges and general estates issues

• Ideally degree educated but work experience is also beneficial
• Can critically review, analyse, interpret and present appropriate data to inform senior team in decision making
• Excellent time and workload management skills
• Effectively multi-task and jump onto differing priorities as they appear
• Open to travel nationally and internationally as appropriate with frequent nights away
• Full clean driving license
• Proficient on MS Suite system

Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

Reward, Recognition and Opportunities

Frasers Champion
- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.

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