National Property Manager

General information

Name National Property Manager Ref # 63512 Date Friday, July 24, 2026 Full / Part Time Full Time

Description & Requirements

Have you ever wanted a career with purpose?

Every day, in every way, we bring real heart to work. It's what drives us to deliver our refreshingly different commitment to supporting older New Zealanders to live longer, healthier, happier lives.

As one of New Zealand's leading aged care and retirement living providers, Bupa operates 40 care homes and 35 retirement villages across the country. Behind every home and village is a team committed to creating safe, welcoming environments for our residents and communities.

Join an organisation where you can combine professional excellence with meaningful impact, while growing your career within a global healthcare company.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join a global healthcare organisation with a substantial and diverse property portfolio spanning New Zealand.  Based in our Newmarket office, with regular nationwide travel, you will lead Bupa's national property asset management function across our retirement village and care home portfolio. 

As National Property Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring our portfolio remains safe, compliant, sustainable and fit for purpose. You will lead a national team spanning multiple regions, drive consistent property asset management practices, and oversee the delivery of maintenance, refurbishment and capital programmes that support both operational performance and resident experience.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the long-term performance of a significant national portfolio while making a meaningful difference to the lives of older New Zealanders.

Where you will make an impact

Leadership and Capability

• Lead, coach and develop a national team spanning multiple regions
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Build organisational capability through mentoring, succession planning and capability development

Strategic Portfolio Management

• Develop and execute property and asset management strategies that maximise portfolio performance and value
• Balance long-term asset planning with operational priorities and business needs
• Support capital planning and investment decisions across the portfolio

Property Compliance and Risk

• Ensure robust compliance, health and safety, and asset assurance processes are embedded across all sites
• Strengthen portfolio-wide compliance, risk and asset governance by continuing to develop our asset management platform

Property Maintenance and Refurbishment

• Oversee the delivery of maintenance and refurbishment programmes to ensure assets remain safe, well-presented and fit for purpose
• Drive consistency, quality and value for money across maintenance and capital works activities
• Ensure projects are delivered efficiently with minimal disruption to residents and operational teams

About You

As a leader in your field, you will be able to demonstrate experience operating in a large, complex organisation with a multi‑site property / asset portfolio, coupled with grounded commercial acumen and ability to balance the strategic long term and immediate asset priorities while delivering results.

Additionally, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Tertiary qualified in property, facilities / asset management, civil engineering, construction management or related field
• A minimum 12+ years' experience in property, facilities, or asset management, including 3+ years in a leadership role managing multi-site or geographically dispersed teams
• People leadership, including mentoring, coaching and building capability
• A strong track record in health and safety and asset compliance management, preferably within a regulated or high-compliance-risk environment
• Exceptional stakeholder skills with an ability to navigate complexity across multiple stakeholders
• Experience with asset or work order management systems

Extra Reasons to Belong

• Fully subsidised Southern Cross health insurance to our eligible permanent NZ employees and a discount on insurance cover for eligible family members
• Wellbeing discounts, EAP counselling services, study support, and cultural leave
• Paid parental leave - in addition to standard parental leave, Bupa offers 12 weeks of paid leave for primary carers and 2 weeks for secondary carers
• Professional Development – in-house and external training and development

Location Newmarket Support Office Recruiter Dominic Henderson