Associate Director - Build To Rent Development €Six figures salary
Background
My client is the largest private developer in Ireland. Building transformational neighbourhoods and affordable, quality homes for people and communities across Ireland.
Reporting to the Head of Development, the role of the Associate Director will be part of the Build to Rent (BTR) Team based in Head Office. There will be the opportunity to work proactively and collaboratively with other members of my client’s team as they deliver new neighbourhoods and communities.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious and commercially minded build to rent expert who wants to work on exciting residential projects.
A key tenet of this role is that the candidate must have the technical skills (PRS investment analysis) along with relevant experience (deals with PRS and AHB operators) and have a dynamic personality to help build strong long-term relationships with investors and operators of large-scale residential assets.
Key Accountabilities
• Identify and secure PRS and BTR investment sale opportunities across Dublin and wider Ireland, as appropriate
• Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional investors, REITs, AHBs, developers, and agents
• Manage end-to-end investment transactions, including acquisition, development advice, and sale
• Prepare and deliver high-quality investment memoranda, marketing materials, cash flow analyses, and market reports
• Liaise with legal, planning, valuation, and development consultants during due diligence and transaction processes
• Track and analyse market trends, yields, rental performance, and pipeline activity
• Provide financial/operating/market data analysis to support operations and identify opportunities to maximize value
• Rent roll analysis, project market rents and consider rent roll analysis for future owners
• Underwriting (modelling) deals for the team
• Participate in client meetings, presentations, and negotiations to deliver strategic investment advice
• Will build on existing relationships with institutional investors, AHBs and other BTR large-scale purchasers
• Will be involved in the disposal of large-scale residential opportunities, including forward funding and forward purchase deals
Essential Qualifications and Experience
• The ideal candidate should have strong quantitative and analytical abilities, a finance or real estate background, and a passion for real estate
• Must have the technical skills (PRS investment analysis)
• Has been in the middle of negotiating deals with PRS and AHB operators
• Will have experience of modelling BTR acquisitions and development
• Will have 10+ years’ experience in a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, real estate, or related field
Key Skills
• Strong relationship builder with a pre-existing extensive real estate investor network
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise, multi-task and troubleshoot essential
• Ability to manage own workload and time
• Be a team player
• Highly organized
• Results oriented and able to work both independently and within a team environment