Manager - Real Estate

Role Overview

Core Qualifications

• The role requires at least 10+ years of advisory and consulting experience in a Big Four or equivalent global or regional consulting firm.
• Minimum qualifications include a postgraduate management qualification or MBA, or a graduate qualification with a specialization such as CFA or CAIA.
• The candidate should understand financial analysis and modeling for real estate and hospitality feasibility projects, business plans, and valuations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support business development through proposal development and business case development.
• Develop financial models, reports, information memorandums, pitch reports, and other high-quality deliverables.
• Lead or support hotel and resort feasibility studies, operator searches, agreement benchmarking, and tourism demand assessments.
• Build and review hospitality operating models covering occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, expenses, GOP or EBITDA, and stabilized-year projections.
• Support project budgeting, time and effort estimates, cash-flow management, and recovery of projects under execution.
• Build networks across clients, channel partners, hotel operators, tourism authorities, and third-party service providers.
• Mentor junior consultants and analysts and contribute to team bonding and continuous professional development.

Real Estate Sector Experience

• Relevant real estate experience may include market assessment and financial feasibility analysis across residential, commercial, retail, entertainment, and hospitality asset classes.
• Relevant experience may include Highest and Best Use studies and strategic recommendations on the best use of land parcels.

Hospitality and Tourism Experience

• Relevant hospitality experience may include market and financial feasibility for hotels, resorts, serviced apartments, branded residences, food and beverage, leisure, and mixed-use developments.
• Relevant work may include supply-demand analysis, competitive-set benchmarking, market penetration or fair-share analysis, and positioning or brand recommendations.
• Relevant work may include operator landscape assessment, operator selection, and benchmarking or negotiation support for management and franchise agreements.
• Relevant tourism work may include master planning, destination development, visitor demand forecasting, attraction assessment, and economic or social impact assessment.
• The role may advise government entities, tourism authorities, developers, master developers, and investors on visitor economy and destination positioning strategies.

Service Lines

• Service lines include feasibility studies, Highest and Best Use studies, business plans, debt restructuring, and projects involving large-scale integrated, hospitality-led, mixed-use, and entertainment developments.