Chief Operating Officer

About the Opportunity

Property Brokers is New Zealand’s largest family-owned provincial real estate company, with around 1,000 people across more than 90 locations and a full service offering spanning residential, lifestyle, rural, commercial and property management.

Reporting to the Managing Director, the COO will provide enterprise level operating leadership across the central organisation, leading a team of senior leaders and a 73-person support centre while partnering closely with Property Brokers’ regional leadership network.

This is not a conventional corporate COO role. Property Brokers is a successful, entrepreneurial and relationship led business where the central team exists to enable the regions. The opportunity is to bring greater management discipline, commercial rigour and execution capability while preserving the culture and energy that underpin the business.

Key priorities will include:

Lead a high performing central leadership team, creating clarity and accountability
Translate strategy into practical plans and drive consistent execution
Simplify processes, systems and ways of working to improve performance
Accelerate digital, marketing and organisational initiatives
Identify new growth opportunities and potential revenue streams
Build the organisational capability required for the next phase of growth

What You’ll Bring

Proven senior executive experience in a COO, CEO, General Management or comparable enterprise leadership role
Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience leading multiple functions
A track record of translating strategy into execution and improving performance
Experience leading transformation, business improvement and growth initiatives
Exceptional people leadership, building trust, accountability and high performance
Strategic thinker with a practical, action oriented approach
Comfortable in decentralised, multi-site, sales or service-led environments where influence matters
Intellectually agile, low ego and confident to challenge constructively
Genuine affinity with provincial and regional New Zealand and its communities
Real Estate experience is not essential; Property Brokers is open to outstanding leaders from other sectors

What’s on Offer

CEO-calibre leadership mandate within one of New Zealand’s most successful privately owned businesses
Direct partnership with the Managing Director and significant influence across the wider organisation
Lead a capable existing team and materially increase the pace and volume of organisational delivery
Opportunity to shape three-to-five-year strategy, unlock new commercial opportunities and expand the business beyond its existing platform
Genuine scope for the role to evolve as trust, performance and the future leadership structure develop
Join a distinctive New Zealand business with strong regional roots, an entrepreneurial culture and substantial unrealised growth potential

Property Brokers already has the people, infrastructure, market presence and platform to grow considerably. The opportunity is not to fix a broken business, but to help a successful organisation become capable of achieving significantly more.

Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.

For any questions give Cameron King a call on 0220731320 and quote Job ID: 18425 for a confidential chat.

To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.

Tribe is a group of specialist teams, each of who truly understand their world, and together they partner to understand yours. Whether you’re looking for your next opportunity or recruiting, we’re all about bringing people together for a shared purpose. Find your people.

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