Location: Cairo, Egypt Employment Type: Full-Time
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Leasing Executive – Retail & F&B with a strong track record and established network across retail brands, restaurants, cafés, and F&B concepts.
Key Responsibilities
* Identify, approach, and secure high-potential retail brands, restaurants, cafés, and F&B operators.* Manage the full leasing cycle from prospecting and presentations through commercial negotiations, lease signing, fit-out coordination, and opening.* Build and maintain a strong pipeline of local and international retailers and F&B concepts.* Actively source established restaurants as well as new, trending, and emerging F&B concepts.* Develop the right retail and F&B tenant mix based on market demand, positioning, customer profile, and commercial objectives.* Negotiate rental rates, revenue share, lease duration, fit-out periods, and other commercial terms.* Maintain strong relationships with retail groups, restaurant operators, franchise owners, and F&B entrepreneurs.* Conduct continuous market mapping to identify new brands, restaurant concepts, cafés, and expansion opportunities.* Monitor competitor malls, retail destinations, restaurant clusters, rental levels, and new market entrants.* Prepare leasing proposals, commercial comparisons, pipeline reports, and management presentations.* Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Technical, Operations, and Marketing teams throughout the leasing and opening process.* Achieve agreed occupancy, leasing revenue, tenant-mix, and store/restaurant opening targets.
Qualifications & Experience
* Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Commerce, Real Estate, or a related field.* 4–7 years of leasing experience within shopping malls, retail destinations, or major commercial developments.* Strong hands-on experience in both retail and F&B/restaurant leasing is essential.* Established network within the Egyptian retail, restaurant, café, and F&B market.* Proven ability to source tenants independently and successfully negotiate and close leasing deals.* Strong understanding of rental structures, revenue-share models, lease terms, and tenant-mix strategy.* Good understanding of restaurant and F&B requirements, including location, visibility, outdoor seating, utilities, and operational considerations.* Excellent negotiation, communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills.* Highly target-driven, proactive, commercially minded, and results-oriented.* Excellent Arabic and English.