We're reimagining the way Australians live, work, and play. We own and manage some of the most recognisable and loved retail destinations across Australia.

 
We’re evolving our portfolio into destinations that offer a broad selection of retail, residential, and office spaces. Through our diverse portfolio, data-led decision-making, and nationwide development pipeline, we do things differently.

We are Vicinity.

Role purpose

The key purpose of the Retail Partnerships Coordinator is to work closely with the Retail Partnerships Manager to develop and implement a retailer engagement program that supports the Vicinity Marketing Strategy, driving improved retailer performance and engagement. The role involves supporting positive retailer engagement and building relationships, managing the retailer database, leveraging Vicinity’s marketing campaigns to support retailer objectives and supporting retailers with their promotional requirements through the collation, distribution and publishing of retailer news, events and offers.

Key Accountabilities

• Maintain the retailer database for Vicinity Marketing
• Support with the proactive outreach to key retailers to build and maintain relationships to understand and support their businesses
• Support the Retail Partnerships Manager to collaborate with the National Campaign team to leverage opportunities for retailer partnerships that deliver value for our consumers
• Collate, review and publish retailer offers, news and events across our centre’s websites
• Support in the collation of centre statistics and consumer insights to assist in developing leasing collateral as required
• Administrative and reporting duties will include and are not limited to preparing reports and presentations, attending meetings, preparing agendas and minutes and compliance training.

Key Role Relationships

• Retail Partnerships Manager (Line Manager)
• Head of Marketing Operations
• National Campaign team
• Brand and Marketing team
• Marketing Executives
• Digital Marketing team
• Digital Product team
• Leasing team
• Retail partners

Experience & Capabilities

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• You will have experience in marketing in either retail or shopping centre environments with competency in results driven marketing.
• You will have a proven capability working with digital platforms in particular CMS and CRM platforms
• You have demonstrated project management skills
• You understand the retail landscape and can identify customer segments and sales categories, driven by a good understanding of the local competitive landscape and key customer insights
• A relevant tertiary qualification is preferred

CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Understanding of retail trends, consumer behaviour and market dynamics
• Knowledge of the retail and / or shopping centre industry

CAPABILITIES

• Excellent time and project management skills
• Ability to work autonomously, whilst engaging and leveraging broader marketing team
• Strong at building and maintaining relationships
• Can work effectively with internal stakeholders to collaborate on key initiatives

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Attention to detail to ensure accuracy
• Ability to adapt to changing market condition, retailer trends or needs

Why Vicinity?

Our benefits program focuses on creating an awesome place to work in which our people are rewarded and recognised. This includes:

• Flexible working options 
• Birthday leave & purchased additional leave
• $1,000 worth of VCX securities rewarded for eligible team members
• Internal mentoring program
• Generous Parental Leave

We live and work by our values of Respect, Integrity, Customer Focus, Collaboration and Excellence.  They are the foundation to everything we do and provide us a north star with which we can shape meaningful places where communities connect.

At Vicinity we embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where we attract, retain and develop our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Our people and our Employee Advocacy Groups (Gender Balance, Cultural Diversity, Disability & Access and Pride & Allies) actively build community and provide allyship within Vicinity. If you’d like to speak to someone to understand what it’s like firsthand to work here, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team.

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: +61 3 7001 4000 (request to speak to our Talent Acquisition team)

Note: To be eligible to apply for this position, you must have existing, relevant Australian work rights. At the later stages of the recruitment process the shortlisted candidate/candidates will be required to undergo a Criminal History Background/Police Check as a mandatory part of the process. Additional qualification checks may also be required dependant on role and level.