Real Estate General Manager at Virtual HR

Our client is a privately-owned Investment Company with diversified holdings across real estate, agri-business, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, fixed income and quoted equity.

They are seeking to recruit a motivated and self-driven professional to fill in the following position in their office:

The Real Estate General Manager will be responsible for driving revenue generation and developing the real estate company’s strategic goals.

Job Responsibilities

• Driving business growth and revenue generation in the real estate portfolio
• Developing strategic goals which will help make a significant impact on growth of the company
• Implementing financial and operational initiatives, ensuring operational costs are kept to a minimum
• Ensuring alignment of the department’s policies and objectives in line with the broad corporate policies and procedures and the group’s policies and procedures
• Identifying key business opportunities so as to enhance financial performance – maximize value
• Inspecting facilities and negotiating contracts with stakeholders (tenants, insurers, suppliers, banks, clients etc.)
• Fine tuning operational methods for the departments while improving the overall efficiency of the departments
• Developing training calendar and training methods which will determine information on various strategic action plans and reviews for the departments
• Supervising and managing the team, ensuring that they adhere to the company policies and procedures
• Preparing operational reports for the board
• Ensuring compliance with the regulatory and governing bodies – e.g. county councils, survey bodies, valuation bodies and advising on changes in the regulations
• Implementing necessary checks and balance to mitigate operational risks across all departments and to ensure the best interest of the company
• Managing and implementing new IT and Technical systems and software’s which can help improve the efficiency of the business by reducing the turnaround time to deliver business

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, Land Economics, Real Estate, Survey or any other related field
• Post certifications is a plus preferably in Marketing, Real Estate Finance, Environmental Studies
• At least 8 experience years in a Real Estate or Property Development Company
• Registered by any of the following bodies: Institute of Surveyors of Kenya, Estate Agents Registration Board, Valuers Registration Board or any other relevant and recognized professional body.
• Must possess strong entrepreneurial skills with understanding of revenue generation