Deputy General Manager - Land Acquisition - Real Estate

The candidate will be responsible for:

1. Originate, evaluate and present land opportunities.

2. Initiate and follow through the legal and technical due diligence process.

3. Maintaining a relevant network to ensure excellent market intelligence.

4. Interacting with investment bankers, IPCs, local brokers and potential companies or resources for sourcing and maintaining appropriate deal flow.

5. Meeting with sellers to understand the deal terms, negotiate and closing of transaction terms.

6. Working closely with the management and the sellers/JV partners to negotiate, structure and close transactions

7. Liaising with external consultants and agencies for carrying out legal,technical and financial diligence.

8. Assisting/coordinating the entire deal process including due diligence, preparing Investment Memorandums for management, deal documentation right through till deal closure.

9. Maintaining strong relationships with key internal stakeholders (including the legal and compliance team, sales team, projects team and finance team) and key external stakeholders (including investment bankers, audit firms, lawyers, company management and JV partners)

The candidate should have the following professional qualifications:

1. 6 to 10 years of relevant real estate experience with a developer (in land acquisition) or private equity (investments team). Overall experience to maybe between 10 - 14 years.

2. The candidate should possess an MBA from a top tier B-school

The candidate should possess the following skills:

1. Strong Industry knowledge especially residential vertical of real estate

2. Strong Analytical skills (including valuations)

3. Ability to financially evaluate deals - including preparation of Cash Flows,P&L and Balance Sheets for deals that are being evaluated.

4. Good communication (verbal / written) and presentation skills with a high degree of perseverance.