Candidates

Operations & Leasing Manager

Gold Coast or Brisbane

Why We Back Them

This candidate is an accomplished hospitality and residential operations leader with more than a decade of experience across high-volume hotels, serviced apartments and multi-residential assets. They bring a rare blend of operational rigour, financial discipline, and service culture leadership — exactly what modern living platforms require to run assets at scale.

They have led large teams, held full commercial accountability, delivered major capital projects, and consistently produced industry-leading customer experience outcomes. Importantly, they also bring hands-on residential leasing and building operations experience, making them a genuine hybrid operations + leasing leader for complex living environments.

The Experience That Builds Them

  • Over 10 years of senior leadership across hotels, serviced apartments and multi-residential assets
  • Currently leading residential leasing and tenant management within a large, complex multi-residential building
  • Full P&L accountability in prior roles including budgeting, forecasting, cost control and financial reporting
  • Delivered major capital works programs and building upgrade projects
  • Led teams of up to 50+ staff across multi-department operations
  • Deep experience across facilities management, maintenance coordination, contractor management and WHS
  • Strong background in body corporate / strata stakeholder management and reporting
  • Hands-on financial administration experience including trust accounting, reconciliation and business accounting systems
  • Track record of delivering record customer satisfaction, NPS and revenue outcomes
  • Experienced in pre-opening, refurbishments and large-scale operational change programs

The Perfect Fit

 Thrives in

  • BTR, PBSA or mixed-use living platforms with scale and operational complexity
  • Assets requiring strong on-site leadership, commercial discipline and service culture
  • Owner-operator or institutional environments where asset performance and resident experience both matter
  • Teams that value accountability, standards, systems and continuous improvement

Want To Meet?

Byron Ellis

Director – Living Sectors Recruitment

0472 777 112