Asset Manager | Build to Rent in London

The opportunity is about more than the assets. It's about the people you work alongside, the quality of the capital behind the portfolio, and whether the business gives you the room to do your best work. This opportunity scores well on all three. We are working with one of the UK's most recognised investors, developers and operators in the living sector with serious AUM. This is a business with genuine longevity, a brand that carries weight with institutional capital and real operational scale across build-to-rent and residential neighbourhood assets.

The asset management team is deliberately structured to give a level of visibility, influence and ownership that simply isn't available in a fully formed team with double digit headcount.

They're hiring an Asset Manager (five to ten years' experience) reporting into the Head of Asset Management and working alongside two colleagues. It's a team small enough that your work is seen, senior enough that your instincts are trusted. This is a value creation mandate, not a stewardship brief. You'll be responsible for driving and protecting investment performance across a portfolio of living assets:

• Setting strategy ahead of budget cycles
• Interrogating performance in real time
• Ensuring the liquidity position remains defensible across refinancing, recapitalisation and disposal scenarios
• Building genuine asset business plans that grow and defend value
• Driving NOI with commercial intent, challenging leasing velocity, pricing strategy and cost lines without hiding behind market conditions
• Overseeing capex with discipline
• Supporting debt strategy, valuation processes and investor reporting with credibility
• Bridging the gap between development underwriting and operational reality

What you'll need: Commercial fluency is non-negotiable. IRR, cashflow sensitivity, liquidity, exit optionality and covenant headroom aren't buzzwords here; they're the daily language. RICS qualification is essential, alongside five to ten years of experience and the ability to be either Manchester or London-based with an expectation of being in the office and/or on site at least three days a week. On experience, the business is deliberately open-minded. Build-to-rent or broader residential asset management is the natural home, but they're equally interested in speaking with asset managers from opex and capex-intensive sectors: logistics, retail, hotels, operational real estate of any kind, who are looking to bring that discipline into the residential space.

If you've spent your career so far interrogating cost lines, sweating assets and stress-testing business plans, the underlying skills translate. What matters is the quality of thinking, not the postcode of the portfolio. You'll also need to be someone who can operate with confidence in an environment where there is genuine scope to shape how the function continues to develop. The business is at a stage where the right person can leave a real mark on how performance is driven and measured.

Why it matters: There's ESG accountability, placemaking responsibility and real investor scrutiny attached to this portfolio. But the core of the role is straightforward: increase income, manage risk, enhance liquidity and strengthen the valuation narrative. No hiding behind strategic reviews, just performance, owned by you. The assets are built, operating and the income is flowing. What the business needs now is someone who can elevate how that performance is driven and defended over the long term.

If you're not actively looking but find yourself reading this thinking the grass might actually be greener here, that instinct is worth a conversation. Please get in touch to explore whether there could be a meaningful fit for both sides.