{"id":2940573,"url":"https://alion.io/job/landsec-retail-manager","title":"Retail Manager","company":{"id":1868239,"name":"Landsec","domain":"landsec.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/landsec","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T17:12:11Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T01:49:10Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"WE ARE LANDSEC\nWe identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them.\nThis is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. \nOur £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. \nWe’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. \nPlaces where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.\nTHE ROLE\nRetail Manager at Bluewater collaborating with our brand partners to maximise sales and income growth opportunities and to understand their trading and marketing strategies. \nThis exciting role will require a combination of strategic thinking, retail and operational oversight, and relationship management skills to ensure the success of Bluewater and its brand partners. LOCATION \nThis role is based on site at Bluewater, 5 days a week.\nTHE TEAM\nReporting to Deputy Centre Director, no direct line management responsibility. \nWhat you will be responsible for: \nPRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES\nIdentify opportunities to drive sales and density using commercial expertise. Working with brands to understand their business and marketing strategy in order to optimise sales. \nDevelop and implement an effective CRM strategy working with all brands to support the strategic asset plan. \nUse industry/brand knowledge and insight to drive sales and income growth. \nAttend leasing meetings, articulating centre performance as appropriate, and support leasing teams with viewings. \nDevelop a plan to manage any void units, from hoardings to temporary lettings.\nBrand Partners liaison:\nUndertake regular brand visits in order to develop and maintain effective working relationships, gain insight and knowledge around performance. \nDevelop and implement an effective communication strategy, ensuring brands are informed on commercial, marketing and operational issues. \nOrganise and co-chair regular Retail Partnership meetings, as appropriate, to share performance, marketing and other centre updates. \nWork in collaboration with the Operations Manager and onsite service partner team to ensure all brands’ operational issues are addressed in a timely and consistent manner. \nBe aware of brand events and their impact on the centre and ensure that these are well managed through communication and face-to-face contact with the centre team.\nAnalysis:\nCollate and analyse daily, weekly and monthly sales data, ensuring the data is an accurate record of trading activity. Provide weekly trading and footfall data to internal stakeholders within agreed timelines. \nCollate, analyse and review all available data to help understand retail, and leisure variances against last year, last week and centre budgets. Benchmark by category and zone performance. \nMaximise the use and coordination of all centre and industry data, including CACI, footfall, dwell time, average spend, catchments and customer profile, to support brand performance.\nGuest experience, training & coaching:\nWork collaboratively with the centre team to ensure the delivery of excellent experiences. \nTake the lead in delivering effective Centre Induction Training for all new brands, covering both operational and commercial requirements.\nCentre Marketing:\nAlign communications with the centre Marketing Manager. \nWorking with the marketing team, develop awareness and participation in the centre’s website and promote the centre’s and brand offers in order to drive sales.\nYour skills, experience and qualifications: \nESSENTIAL CRITERIA \nRetail management, shopping centre, leisure, or food and beverage experience. \nProven experience of delivering sales growth. \nExperience of building and maintaining effective relationships with a range of stakeholders. \nStrong verbal and written communication and presentation skills. \nProven customer service skills. \nAble to analyse sales data and research and make recommendations.\nLife and Benefits at Landsec\nWe have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.\nBelow are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.\nPerformance based annual bonus plan\n\n25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special ‘My Day’ to take off for whatever you choose.\n\nEnhanced pension contributions - Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.\n\nPrivate medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.\n\nEnhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details)\n\nTwo different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build\n\nUp to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%\n\nAnd when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause\nDiversity and Inclusion\nAt Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.\nWe strive to ensure all our information, and services are accessible to and usable byeveryone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with our recruitment partners by emailing \nTo find out more about our approach, visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6299,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Growth opportunities","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Real Estate Investment"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T17:12:11Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":85,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.849,"p_room":1,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/landsec-retail-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/landsec-retail-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-30T06:14:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8646,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-31T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1868239},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1868239"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flandsec-retail-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flandsec-retail-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flandsec-retail-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/landsec-retail-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flandsec-retail-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2940573}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"landsec.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2940573},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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