Retirement Living and Land Lease are unique sectors.
They bring together property, operations, sales, customer experience and community, and the best leaders need to understand how all of those pieces work together.
That’s why specialist recruitment matters.
At DCM Executive Recruitment, we work exclusively within the sectors supporting older Australians. We understand the operators, the roles, the pressures and, importantly, the people who make these communities successful.
So you don’t have to spend the first half of a recruitment brief explaining your business to us.
We already speak your language.
Australia’s specialist executive recruitment team dedicated to finding exceptional leaders for Retirement Living and Land Lease communities.
There are plenty of recruiters who can search for a General Manager, Head of Operations or Sales Director. The difference is knowing what good looks like in your sector.
A strong leader in Retirement Living or Land Lease needs more than a good CV. They need to understand the commercial realities of running a successful business while recognising that every decision ultimately affects a community of residents.
We look for leaders who can balance both.
People who can:
Because technically capable isn’t enough.
The right person has to work in your organisation, with your team and within your community.
Our commitment is to provide transparent advice, find leaders who genuinely fit your organisation, and stay involved through onboarding and beyond to help create placements that last.
Retirement Living and Land Lease aren’t two sectors on a list of twenty. They’re markets we work in every day.
Our relationships across the DCM Group give us access to a broad network of established and emerging sector leaders.
Experience matters. So do leadership style, values, motivation, cultural fit and the ability to connect with residents and teams.
Our job isn’t finished when a contract is signed. Strong onboarding, mentoring and follow-up help turn a successful search into a successful appointment.
A placement isn’t successful because somebody started. It’s successful because, twelve months and beyond, both sides know they made the right decision.
The best candidate for your role may not be actively looking. Our sector relationships help us reach experienced leaders who sit beyond the usual candidate database.
CEO
COO
Exec General Manager
General Manager
Head of Operations
Regional Manager
State Manager
Community & Village Managers
Sales Director
Head of Sales
Regional Sales Manager
Project Sales Leaders
Development Leaders
Asset Management
Commercial Leadership
Growth Roles
Resident Experience
Customer Experience
Community Operations
James leads DCM Executive Recruitment’s work across Retirement Living and Land Lease.
His approach is straightforward: understand the business properly, be open about what the market is telling us and introduce people who genuinely have the potential to succeed.
But James’s real advantage is proximity to the sector.
Through DCMER and the wider DCM Group, he speaks regularly with operators, executives and sector professionals across Australia. That gives him a current view of who’s moving, where talent is emerging, what candidates are looking for and where recruitment challenges are developing.
It also means you won’t need to teach your recruiter how Retirement Living or Land Lease works before you can start talking about the appointment.
If you’re thinking about succession, restructuring a leadership team, replacing a key person or wondering what talent is available in the market, start with a conversation.
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