Graduate Rotation Associate

Location:

22 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2S5

 

 

Position Overview:

Are you ready to take the next step in your career in Real Estate? Would you like to join an innovative and collaborative team environment that promotes creativity and strategic thinking?  Choice Properties is looking for analytical and solution driven Post Secondary graduates who are passionate about Canadian Real Estate to join our exciting New Graduate Rotational program!

In this program, you’ll be joining Choice Properties REIT for a comprehensive 24-month Rotational Program that will provide a full scope exposure, awareness, and skilled development across four core 6-month rotations. Once the Rotational Program concludes, successful candidates will join a full-time role within Leasing, Asset Management, Development, Construction, Operations, or Transactions. If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, we want to hear from you!  

Responsibilities for the four core 6-month rotations will include:  

Leasing & Asset Management 

• Assist with building strategic Asset Plans for the designated properties. 
• Assemble economic, market, and industry research and conduct trend analysis. 
• Review and provide recommendations for lease proposals, amendments, and renewals. 
• Review monthly leasing reports and collaborate with the leasing team and related partners to ensure activity is recorded.  

Development & Construction 

• Proactively monitor development project performance by tracking financial, schedule, construction, and leasing progress. 
• Assist with various planning applications, review incoming notices of Study/Development Applications, and monitor local Council Agendas for updates or impacts.  
• Conduct market research and analysis and provide relevant updates, including summarizing and analyzing data sets to present key data points and performing budget-to-actual variance analysis. 
• Assist with the administration related to multiple construction projects, serving as a liaison with project team members regarding scope of work, design criteria, budget, schedule, and phasing. 
• Review landlord and tenant work schedules to establish work responsibilities, monitor landlord construction costs, and forecast to ensure they correlate with budget.  

 

Operations & Property Management 

• Develop professional relationships with tenants and support with new tenant move-ins, move-outs, and related activities. 
• Respond to tenant concerns and complaints, conduct investigations, assist in building inspections, and initiate corrective actions.  
• Assist in obtaining quotes and completing contracts for preventative maintenance. 
• Assist Operations/Property Manager with the procurement of all supplies and services required for the smooth operation and maintenance of properties. 

Transactions 

• Build and maintain financial models to analyze investment and development opportunities across multiple asset classes. 
• Prepare, research, and summarize market analysis and trends for various projects, markets, and assets under review. 
• Assist in preparing presentations and approval packages for management, investment committees, and board meetings. 

Qualifications:

• Recent Graduate or less than 2 years of working experience. 
• Post Secondary graduate in Business, Real Estate, or related field or equivalent.
• A genuine interest in and passion for the Real Estate Industry. 
• Effective communicator with demonstrated written and verbal skills (i.e. report writing, presentations, and meeting facilitation). 
• Results oriented with a proactive, solution driven mindset.
• Strong time management, attention to detail, and organizational skills. 
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong working relationships with other departments and with stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Demonstrates curiosity, integrity, and demonstrates the willingness to accept feedback and turn it into actionable development.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. 

Office Model: Full-time in office

Start Date: September 8, 2026

About Choice Properties

Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust is an owner, manager and developer of well-located retail and commercial real estate across Canada. Choice Properties' portfolio spans approximately 65 million square feet of gross leasable area and consists of over 700 properties primarily focused on supermarket-anchored shopping centers.

Choice Properties’ strategy is to create value by enhancing and optimizing its portfolio through high quality transactions, strategic development and active property management. We mainly focus on necessity-based retail, and high-quality industrial and mixed-use assets. In particular, we have a strategic relationship with Loblaw, our largest tenant, that provides us with access to high quality investment opportunities.

Our established operating platform with a proven track record of success also provides us with access to a transformational development pipeline that we believe supports superior long-term value creation and growth. A commitment to continuous learning and development is a strong part of our culture.

Additional Information:

Choice Properties REIT recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants and employees with disabilities.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing.  Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Number of Openings:

2

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Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :

 

 

$78,120.00 - $107,415.00 / 78.120,00$ - 107.415,00$ (per year / par an)

 

 

A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for a newly created position. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste nouvellement créé. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.