Western Retail Advisors is a full-service, retail-focused commercial real estate brokerage firm with offices in Phoenix and Irvine, California. Our team is collaborative, driven, fun, and forward-thinking and we are looking to add new team members to both offices.
Retail is in our DNA
For more than 20 years, we’ve connected retail, restaurant, and entertainment brands to local markets, building vibrant communities and valued relationship along the way. We’ve built our team with first-hand experience working for retailers and landlords providing in-depth market knowledge, and a commitment to best-in-industry technology. As a trusted partner and advocate, we offer a wide range of services including tenant representation, landlord representation, master brokerage and investment sales.
Learn more about us and our current job opportunities below:
Irvine, California
Administrative Assistant
Primary responsibilities are to provide general support to brokers in a boutique retail brokerage firm of 4-8 employees. The Administrative Assistant is responsible for handling the day-to-day administrative duties for a portion of the brokerage team while providing a positive, professional company image with all internal and external contacts, maintaining confidentiality, discretion, tact, diplomacy and flexibility in their daily work routine.
IDEAL CANDIDATE
You will have a strong sense of self-motivation, excellent organizational skills, and a love of learning and growth.
You will work collaboratively with the team to understand the needs of the business and help problem solve, organize, and manage tasks. You love structure, processes, data, and tooling, because of their ability to positively affect performance, efficiency, and efficacy. We are looking for a critical thinker who takes initiative and aren’t afraid to fail, learn from mistakes, adjust, and try new things.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Prepare and modify documents including letters of intent, correspondence, reports, drafts, memos and emails for all brokers.
• Develop fluency with software used to track transaction flow. Input new transactions and close out completed deals prior to brokers’ review for processing.
• Maintain and update meeting agendas for standing weekly meetings within the office.
• Maintain project lists and spreadsheets to assist brokers with tracking client deal pipelines.
• Carry out special projects and be able to adapt to last minute tasks to help hit sensitive deadlines.
• Pull monthly pipeline reports for review by all brokers and additional reports as required.
• Assist with the preparation of materials needed for various conference throughout the year.
• Provide general administrative and clerical support including mailing, copying, filing and other related duties for other brokers and staff.
• Maintain and order office supplies and oversee operation and maintenance of office equipment.
• Maintain electronic filing system for the office.
• Update and maintain company contacts.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Some office experience, preferably supporting a team
• Commercial Real Estate experience preferred but not required
• Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and within an inconsistent workload; excellent time management skills
• Professionally able to respond to changing demands from multiple sources
• Advanced applications in Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint. Ability to work in Acrobat and/or Illustrator a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Must be able to manage company related information in a confidential manner and exercise discretion
• Responsive, flexible attitude with an eagerness to take initiative and assume responsibility
• Must be able to consistently achieve high work standards; attention to detail
• Proven success in improving areas of responsibility; and accuracy and timeliness is a must
OTHER CRITERIA FOR CONSIDERATION:
• Ability to work overtime as needed.
• Must be adaptive and flexible.
• Must have a positive attitude.
• Committed to learning and personal growth.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and abilities.
• Demonstrate commitment to learning and growth.
• Driven and goal oriented.
Commercial Real Estate Broker
We’ve built our team with first-hand experience working for retailers and landlords, in-depth market knowledge, and a commitment to best-in-industry technology.
Since our inception in 2001, our goal has been to help retailers open profitable new locations more quickly, more efficiently and with more information than they could have without us. Our experience in completing several thousand retail leases allows us to provide a perspective different from our competition. When we built our landlord services platform, we had a similar goal—help landlords fill their vacant spaces more quickly, easily, and at higher rents with more compelling tenant mixes than without our guidance.
Through over 20 years of completing national roll-outs for retailers, our Phoenix team has built deep retailer relationships, which allow for the generation of significant new business. We have over 200 years of combined retail real estate experience to provide learning guidance and mentorship.
With experience in master broker services, tenant representation, landlord representation, and investment sales, our team is here to help you grow and build financial independence.
In addition, as members of Realty Resources, a premiere national brokerage network, our brokers can build deep national relationships to help secure significant in-bound and out-bound referrals.
Western Retail Advisors is seeking experienced real estate brokers to join our collaborative, driven, fun, and forward-thinking team.
We are looking for a dynamic, experienced individual with a strong background in retail real estate. The ideal candidate must be motivated, entrepreneurial, and a team player.
WHO ARE YOU?
• A self-starter, highly motivated, and able to work collaboratively.
• Excellent problem solver with great interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiator with effective presentation skills.
• High level of commitment to extraordinary client service
• A strong desire to learn every day.
• A quick learner with a willingness to jump in and hit the ground running
• A solutions-oriented attitude that consistently looks for new opportunities to drive revenue growth.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Transition any of your existing clients to WRA.
• Review all of our existing landlord client properties to provide advice & direction.
• Review our existing retailer accounts to provide suggestions.
• Join selected landlord listings to assist in the leasing of client properties.
• Join selected existing tenant accounts to assist in the execution of their expansion plans throughout Southern California.
• In collaboration with our research and marketing teams, prepare tour materials and leasing brochures.
• Build expert-level knowledge of market conditions, property & lease values, trends, and legislation that may affect the real estate industry.
• Perform property visits and site tours with prospective clients.
• Leverage market knowledge with tools such as CoStar, Sites USA, and Placer.ai.
• Maintain projects in our deal tracking software (Realcore), to provide reports, client presentations, and ensure timely transaction completion.
• Develop and grow strong relationships with new and existing clients.
• Qualify and target prospective clients to pursue.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree with 5-7 years’ experience in retail leasing, commercial brokerage, or property management
• Hold an active California Real Estate Salespersons License.
• Comfortable with phone and person-to-person cold calls to generate business.
BONUS SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
• A current roster of active clients (landlord or tenant).
• Retailer or landlord experience in the Southern California market.
Phoenix, Arizona
Graphic Designer
Position Overview
Western Retail Advisors, a full-service, retail-focused commercial real estate brokerage firm is seeking a full-time junior graphic designer/marketing coordinator to join our growing marketing team. With offices in Phoenix and Irvine, our team is collaborative, driven, fun and forward-thinking.
The ideal candidate must be positive, dependable, organized, flexible and able to work independently, as well as with a variety of individuals. This hybrid position will be an integral part of the marketing team by completing day-to-day graphic design tasks such as creating property marketing brochures, pitch decks, maps from aerial photos, tenant site-selection packages and KMZ files as well as other digital assets for email blasts and social media posts.
A keen eye for detail along with a mix of creative and technical know-how is essential for success in this role. This role will report to the Director of Marketing in our Phoenix office.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate closely with internal and external designers, team members and brokers to produce high-quality marketing materials, email blasts and maps
• Carry out research and evaluate map data to lay out map designs, graphics, and illustrations
• Responsible for the layout, design and production activities to create quality designs
• Develop creative marketing materials that adhere to brand standards
• Design detail graphics for use in email and social media campaigns
• Meet with brokers to discuss and determine layout design, leading the conversation to uncover vital information and achieve desired results
• Create original creative content for new business opportunities and corporate materials
• Able to project manage own workload and work in a fast-paced changing environment with multiple projects going on simultaneously
• Catalog and reference art for future projects
• Use project management software for workflow tasks and updates
• Makes decisions with thorough understanding of procedures, company policies and business practices to achieve results and deadlines
• Must stay on top of current design trends and technology
Job Expectations and Requirements
• Minimum of 3 + years of Graphic Design experience in an-house business environment or agency
• Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design or related field (Required)
• 3-5 years of experience and/or training in Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience working with digital content such as websites, social media and email campaigns.
• Video production and editing skills a plus
• Experience in commercial real estate a plus
Required Software Experience
• Expert in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat Pro)
• Expert in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience in WordPress and email marketing platforms such Mailchimp or Active Campaign a plus
• Additional training will be provided for industry-specific software programs
Who You Are
• Creative, innovative and solutions-oriented
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to gather and disseminate information to present facts clearly and accurately in graphic form
• A team player who enjoys contributing to moving the company forward
• Well organized and with the ability to properly manage individual workload
• Strong work ethic and a desire for a variety of projects and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Constant interest in learning and growing in your career
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist
Western Retail Advisors, a full-service, retail-focused commercial real estate brokerage firm is seeking a Geographic Information Systems Specialist (GIS) to join our growing marketing team. With offices in Phoenix and Irvine, our team is collaborative, driven, fun, and forward-thinking.
The ideal candidate must be positive, dependable, organized, flexible and able to work independently, as well as with a variety of individuals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and exceptional follow through is a must. Additionally, the ability to multi-task under pressure and in a fast-paced environment is essential. This role will report to the Director of Marketing in our Phoenix office.
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position will be on the ground floor with unlimited possibilities with GIS projects and creativity encouraged. This individual will produce a variety of high quality geographic and demographic materials with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, practices, and procedures. Create, develop, and perform spatial analyses, and multiple database queries to facilitate commercial real estate decisions. This position works both independently and with team members to help achieved desired outcomes from brokers and team members to market their listings and guide client decisions.
This role communicates and markets our location intelligence department capabilities to our brokers, team members and their clients while also providing core analytics support to internal and external clients across business lines.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop location intelligence deliverables, both traditional and web-based, using a combination of geo-spatial, analytic, and graphic design skills.
• Extract and locate demographic and other information from various data sources
• Proactively interfaces with team members to define project requirements, investigating various approaches to ensure efficacy.
• Build close relationships with brokers and transactions managers, offering solutions and recommendations on client deliverables to provide a superior work product
• Provides workload support for team members when necessary.
• Assists team members with analysis, research, and implementation of new processes and workflows.
• Responsible for driving high-quality project standards
• Log and prioritize work assignments using a project management platform
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Maintain and update geodatabases and custom mapping applications
WHO YOU ARE:
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to gather, analyze and disseminate information to present facts clearly and accurately in graphic form and orally
• Creative and possess a keen eye for design
• A team player who enjoys contributing to moving the company forward
• Well organized and with the ability to properly manage individual workload
• Strong work ethic and a desire for a variety of projects and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Constant interest in learning and growing in your career
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geographic Information Systems or related degree/certification
• Proficiency in ESRI software (ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online)
• Commercial Real Estate or Retail industry experience is highly recommended, but not required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Mastery in ArcGIS Suite, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications required.
• Knowledge of GIS terms and definitions
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