SVP/ VP Asset Management

Role Overview

This position is for a Senior Vice President / Vice President of Asset Management to lead a varied real estate portfolio that includes stabilised operating assets, repositioning opportunities, and land or development-led projects across several geographies. The role is highly hands-on: it involves improving the performance of assets already in place while also helping shape future assets from the earliest stage, including land feasibility, development direction, and asset positioning.

The job sits at the overlap of asset management, development thinking, and investment strategy. It requires close collaboration with senior leadership, investment professionals, and operating partners. The right candidate will bring commercial discipline, practical judgement, and the ability to work across assets at different stages of their lifecycle.

Asset Strategy and Portfolio Performance

• Define and own asset-level plans for income-generating and operating real estate holdings.
• Take charge of annual budgets, business plans, and asset strategies, and monitor results against underwriting assumptions.
• Spot and pursue opportunities to improve yield, reconfigure space, sharpen operations, optimise capex, and time exits effectively.
• Proactively manage downside exposure and performance swings.

Land, Development and Feasibility

• Lead or support feasibility work for land and early-stage assets across different real estate use cases.
• Partner with investment and development teams to test highest-and-best-use options, assess development yield and phasing, evaluate capital intensity, and consider operating models such as hold, operate, lease, hybrid, or exit.
• Convert feasibility findings into clear development and asset strategies, including key assumptions around risk, capital structure, and holding period.
• Keep development concepts anchored in real operating and exit outcomes rather than purely theoretical design ideas.
• Be comfortable thinking from land acquisition through to final occupancy, even where delivery is ultimately handled by development partners.

Multi-Asset and Cross-Strategy Exposure

• Work across a broad mix of real estate strategies, which may include residential and rental housing, hospitality or living formats, mixed-use or adaptive reuse projects, and other operating real estate models.
• Apply a consistent asset management framework while recognising that each asset type behaves differently.
• Help refine the organisation’s view on which strategies scale effectively and which need a tailored approach.

Operating Partner and Stakeholder Management

• Act as the main asset-level contact for operators, developers, and joint venture partners.
• Review and challenge operating assumptions, budgets, capex plans, and strategic proposals.
• Balance a collaborative approach with firm accountability to ownership objectives.
• Handle complex stakeholder settings, including situations with both minority and majority positions.

Investment, Capital and Exit Support

• Support investment teams with acquisition underwriting, value-creation planning, post-acquisition integration, refinancing, recapitalisation, and exit decisions.
• Contribute asset management perspective to investment committee materials and senior leadership discussions.
• Ensure decisions at the asset level remain aligned with broader portfolio and capital strategy.

Governance, Risk and Reporting

• Keep assets and projects operating within approved governance structures.
• Identify new risks early, including development, operational, regulatory, and market-related issues, and recommend practical mitigation measures.
• Deliver clear reporting that supports decision-making for senior stakeholders.
• Maintain strong discipline without creating unnecessary process burden.

Experience and Capabilities

• Bring 8–12+ years of experience in asset management, development, investments, or principal-side real estate work.
• Have practical exposure to either operating assets or development / land-backed assets from feasibility through execution.
• Be comfortable working with incomplete information at early stages while still applying robust commercial judgement.
• Possess a solid financial and commercial base and understand how operational decisions affect valuation outcomes.
• Have experience in joint venture environments and direct collaboration with operators and developers.

What Success Looks Like

• Think with a long-term owner mindset rather than a short-term trading mindset.
• Move comfortably between land, feasibility, and stabilised operating assets.
• Know when analysis is needed and when decisive action is better.
• Challenge developers, operators, and advisors constructively and without ego.
• Be commercially sharp without overcomplicating the problem.
• Prefer simple, clear answers to complex situations.
• Thrive in a lean senior environment with high trust and high expectations.
• Be motivated to help define what the portfolio should become next, not just manage what already exists.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Direct input into both current income-producing assets and future development pipelines.
• Exposure to a wide range of real estate strategies and geographies.
• Close working relationship with senior leadership and investment committees.
• A platform that values judgement, partnership, and long-term value creation over noise and optics.

Additional Information

This is a senior, hands-on real estate role that demands commercial rigour, practical judgement, and the ability to operate across different asset life stages. The portfolio includes operating assets, repositioning opportunities, and development-led land plays, so the ideal candidate should be equally comfortable with current performance optimisation and future asset creation.