Property Portfolio Manager at Britam

Job Purpose and Key responsibilities

Job Purpose:

The job holder will be responsible for property investment deal screening, due diligence and preparation of business cases and tenders. The individual will also be responsible for day to day monitoring and appraisal of property investments as well as client relationship management and reporting. The successful candidate will report to the Senior Property Advisory Manager

Key responsibilities

• Maintain an information and research perspective on current and future economic conditions and industry trends
• Conduct market research, due diligence and feasibility studies
• HBU analysis and development of property investment strategy papers and reports.
• Generate regular property reports as necessary for presentations and articulate and present the same to internal and external stakeholders.
• Attend and represent the company at internal and external meetings.
• Analyse due diligence outputs in on potential investment opportunities in order to contribute to an investment decision.
• Development of business cases and assist with providing input for tenders.
• Comply with statutory and other relevant regulatory bodies.
• Adhere to internal and external risk and compliance standards.
• Delegated Authority; As per the approved delegated authority matrix.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Key Performance Measures

• Investment performance
• Client relationship management
• Reporting TAT

Knowledge, experience and qualifications required

• Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Land Economics or related field.
• 4-6 years’ experience in Real Estate research, advisory and investments.
• Relevant professional certification in Real Estate.
• Member of relevant professional body.

Technical/ Functional competencies

• Knowledge of investments and financial markets.
• Proposal and business case development.
• Analytical skills
• Presentation and Report writing skills
• Client Relationship Management.

Core Competencies

Team Leaders in Britam need to:

• Operationally lead a team to service customers from a sustainable and growing customer base whilst increasing profit;
• Ensure the company’s objectives are met by being a vision carrier and by implementing strategy and operational outputs;
• Effectively run the business and manage staff in order to enable functional leaders to focus on developing strategy;
• Effectively identify and define key performance areas, deadlines and goals for their team in order to optimise operational effectiveness;
• Ensure the department has the most appropriate people capability through effective inspirational leadership, people development, effective selection and optimised succession planning;
• Create a high performance, proactive culture and motivated team;
• Monitor operational implementation, budgets, plans, goals and outputs in order to ensure alignment with the departmental strategy;
• Ensure that department priorities are adhered to and effectively communicated;
• Effectively disseminate knowledge within the correct context, towards subordinates as well as management;
• Appropriately model the company values while setting the pace and energy for delivering;
• Benchmark operational activities internally as well as externally in order to be a leader in the industry;
• Effectively manage and communicate change within the department in order to increase staff and process effectiveness;
• Provide access to accurate and consistent information and services across all channels;
• Adequately manage operational risk.