Prior experience with deal sourcing, asset management, and financial modelling skills
Strong communication skills
Experience of development management is a plus
Ability to work with and guide the development of junior investment professionals
Thrive in a dynamic team-based environment with perseverance, creativity, and ability to balance multiple tasks in a global cross-border team
Represent BlackRock in the market as a reputable player of the highest integrity consistent with the Firm’s values
Maintain an up-to-date understanding of real estate market sectors, cycles, and key performance drivers
Maintain effective working relationships with BlackRock and external associates (e.g., joint venture partners, real estate consultants, valuers, bankers, financial & tax consultants, legal counsels)
Responsibilities
Develop and leverage an extensive industry network of agents, brokers, advisors, corporates, JV partners, financiers, and other real estate stakeholders to source creative, hard-to-access, and original investment opportunities for APAC Real Estate mandates
Initial focus on deploying equity capital into successful value-add investment opportunities for closed-end Asia Fund series
Manage the strategy of value-add real estate investments in Japan, including formation and implementation of asset-specific initiatives to extract value and deliver superior returns from a diverse multi-sector portfolio
Handle primary/day-to-day interactions with external counterparties such as operating partners, joint venture partners, property managers, agents, brokers, and development managers
Ensure all recorded investment data and written divestment/investment proposals are of the highest quality and consistent with the Firm’s standards to facilitate comparison and analysis
Lead in the preparation of divestment/investment proposals and investment committee memorandums
Source and provide research data supporting any updates
Provide market research and real estate investment strategy recommendations for Japan platform to the APAC portfolio management team