Who We Are:
OTR Group comprises of over 1000 retail, convenience, and quick service restaurants – including brands such as Reddy Express (formerly known as Coles Express), Smokemart & GiftBox, and in S.A, Krispy Kreme, Hungry Jacks, Oporto, Guzman and Gomez and many others. OTR Group is part of the Viva Energy Australia Group – an ASX-listed company helping Australians reach their destination by refining, importing, and distributing energy products while building a safe and sustainable energy future for all Australians. With Viva Energy Australia’s national footprint and OTR’s history of industry-leading innovation, there has never been a more exciting time to join the OTR Group as we set out to redefine the retail landscape in Australia.
This role is open to candidates in both Adelaide and Victoria.
The Role:
An exceptional leadership opportunity exists for an experienced property executive to join OTR Group as Head of Property and Leasing. Reporting to the Chief Business & Development Officer, you will lead a national property function across leasing, property finance and portfolio performance, overseeing a complex network of 2,000+ leases nationally.
Responsible for building a high-performing and future-ready team, you will drive leasing strategy, portfolio optimisation, occupancy cost outcomes and governance while enabling network growth and long-term commercial success.
You Will Provide:
- Lead and develop a high-performing national Property and Leasing team.
- Set and deliver the property and leasing strategy aligned to growth and business priorities.
- Drive portfolio optimisation through lease renewals, acquisitions, disposals and commercial negotiations.
- Lead landlord and agent relationships to deliver favourable leasing and occupancy outcomes.
- Oversee occupancy costs, forecasting, reporting and portfolio performance.
- Partner across Development, Retail, Finance and Legal to support growth, relocations and new sites.
- Ensure strong governance across lease obligations, reporting and property systems.
- Act as the escalation point for complex property and leasing matters.
- Drive capability, consistency and continuous improvement across the function.
What We Offer:
- Join a dynamic team at a renowned South Australian company, known for their innovation and outside-the-box thinking.
- Be a part of the journey, with countless opportunities as we rapidly expand into a nationwide retail powerhouse.
- Access to exclusive staff benefits via our OTR App.
- Access to extensive health and wellbeing benefits, including discounted private health insurance, fitness memberships, and everyday lifestyle savings for you and your family.
- Access to our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
About You:
- Extensive experience leading property, leasing or portfolio management functions across large multi-site environments.
- Demonstrated success managing complex national property portfolios with 1,000+ sites.
- Strong commercial, financial and analytical capability with experience driving cost optimisation outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams through growth, transformation and change.
- Advanced negotiation and influencing skills with experience managing complex stakeholder relationships.
- Strong governance discipline with the ability to establish robust frameworks and reporting structures.
- Experience working with institutional landlords and outsourced service delivery models.
- Exposure to retail, convenience, fuel or specialty retail environments will be highly regarded.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and decision-making.
- Willingness to travel interstate to support portfolio priorities and stakeholder engagement.
We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and encourage and support diversity in our traditional and non-traditional roles.
Please note: This role is being sourced by our internal Talent Acquisition team; therefore, we will not be accepting applications via external recruitment agencies.
