Chris Sumner Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, GB

York, England, United Kingdom

Remit to acquire retail park and shopping outlet units from 2,500 sqft - 4,000 sqft as well as asset managing this portion of the estate.

Walsall, England, United Kingdom

In this role I was responsible for driving the execution of property strategy initiatives, ensuring timely and effective implementation of store expansion, relocation, and store optimisation projects. I took lead on key strategic acquisitions to ensure overall strategy was aligned to the existing estate at the point of a lease event whilst also carrying.

Walsall, England, United Kingdom

Throughout my time at Poundland I was responsible for retail park/out of town large format acquisitions across the whole of the UK, managing the process from birth to conclusion. I acquired 65 stores.

Walsall, England, United Kingdom

Acquired a mix of retail parks, shopping centre and high street stores throughout the UK.

I was responsible for sourcing and managing the acquisition of car parks. This included conducting the initial financial analysis all the way through to drafting HOT's and taking the acquisition through the legal process. Over the course of an 18 month period, I opened 8 sites across the UK.

Working within the Property team, my primary responsibility in this role was to finance model car parks to see if they were viable by liaising with Acquisition Surveyors and key operational staff. Other responsibilities included the collection and manipulation of data to assist with rent reviews and lease renewals.

In this role I was responsible for resolving high level customer complaints over the phone or by letter, within the telecoms and utilities industries. This included liaising with the customer (who were small to medium enterprises) to evaluate the problem and agree a solution often through negotiation. Additionally and where appropriate I also had to.