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As a Vice President on the West Region Investment Team, the successful candidate will source, negotiate, diligence, and close equity investments in office, industrial, multifamily, and retail properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Vice President will be responsible for the sourcing, underwriting, investment committee presentation, due diligence, structuring, and closing of new acquisitions and development opportunities across all points on the risk spectrum. The Vice President will be responsible for managing deal teams, including analysts and associates in acquisitions, as well as coordinating with asset management, engineering, research and other JPM and external teams.
Job Responsibilities
- Generate investment opportunities at all points on the risk spectrum, through marketed and off-market channels.
- Develop and manage partner, broker, and other industry relationships to generate deal flow and market/product expertise.
- Establish bidding and negotiation strategy and adjust the same to respond to feedback during negotiations.
- Efficiently evaluate, underwrite, and recommend appropriate investment opportunities.
- Clearly identify and communicate risk and reward in each investment opportunity and price such risk appropriately.
- Build internal consensus on valuation and transaction structure through proactive communication with all constituencies (including the CIO, portfolio management, asset management, research, valuation, financial, debt capital markets, and development/engineering).
- Responsible for developing the investment strategy and business plan, writing investment committee memoranda, and presenting and advocating transactions at investment committee.
- Lead due diligence teams and coordinate seamlessly with portfolio management, asset management, development/engineering, debt capital markets, valuation, financial, and other teams (including outside counsel and third-party consultants) to identify and resolve diligence issues.
- Lead on transaction negotiation and documentation.
- Negotiate with a focus on identifying and mitigating risk.
- Exhibit leadership in partnering with internal teams and in developing junior team members.
- Proactively seek ways to expand Global Real Assets’ impact across the firm.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- 5+ years of real estate acquisitions experience
- Experience in some or all of the office, industrial, multifamily, and/or retail sectors
- Experience mentoring and training junior associates and analysts
- Exceptional relationship building and negotiation skills including sales brokers, operating partners, owners, and other third parties
- Excellent quantitative modeling and analytical skills, including familiarity with ARGUS
- Strong written and communication skills
- Ability to think strategically and work independently
- Attention to detail
- Experience in the San Francisco Bay Area
Source: JP Morgan Career Page
