Head of Value-Add Asset Management (m/w/d) in Frankfurt am Main

Germany | Real Estate Private Equity | European investment, development and asset management platform | Frankfurt

Stoneleaf Search is exclusively retained by a well-capitalised European real estate investment platform to appoint a Head of Value-Add Asset Management for Germany, based in Frankfurt.

This is a rare opportunity in the current market to join a well-capitalised and highly active European real estate platform at an important point in its growth. Germany is a key market for the business, with significant ambition to continue investing, developing and growing the portfolio and team. The role offers genuine influence over investment decisions, portfolio strategy and the continued build-out of the German business.

You will lead and continue to build the German team, working alongside Investment from acquisition onwards and combining investment judgement with hands-on asset and development expertise to drive performance and deliver ambitious business plans. You will report into European leadership and work alongside senior peers across the platform's other markets.

The mandate extends well beyond traditional asset management. We are looking for someone who understands and can demonstrate how value is created at asset level and can bring that knowledge into investment decision-making. Your experience may include repositioning and redevelopment, ground-up development, repurposing or change of use, complex leasing strategies and other situations requiring active intervention to unlock value.

The portfolio is focused principally on Living/Residential and Logistics/Industrial, making strong knowledge of these markets preferable.

The Role

• Take overall commercial responsibility for the performance of the German portfolio, translating investment strategies into executable asset and development business plans.
• Work closely with investment colleagues, bringing asset-level, occupier and development expertise into acquisition, underwriting, capital allocation and exit decisions and identifying opportunities and risks throughout the investment lifecycle.
• Lead the execution of value-add strategies across the portfolio, including redevelopment, repositioning, leasing, capex and development initiatives, working with internal specialists, JV partners and external counterparties.
• Oversee development activity and challenge projects against their commercial objectives, ensuring that investment assumptions translate into delivery and returns.
• Own and challenge portfolio and asset business plans, directing resources and capital towards the initiatives with the greatest potential impact.
• Lead key JV and operating partner relationships, holding partners accountable for execution and performance whilst maintaining strong, constructive relationships.
• Lead and continue to build the German Asset Management & Development team. Although this is a senior leadership appointment, the current stage of the platform requires someone who remains close to the assets, comfortable getting into the detail and leading through execution rather than delegation alone.
• Represent Germany within the wider European Asset Management & Development organisation, working closely with peers across other countries.

The Individual

• A senior real estate professional with a career grounded in active, value-add asset management and/or development, with strong investment judgement, rather than predominantly stabilised or core asset management.
• Demonstrable experience delivering complex asset-level business plans, which could include repositioning, redevelopment, ground-up development, repurposing/change of use, leasing-led strategies or other substantial asset transformation.
• Strong knowledge of the German real estate market, ideally including meaningful exposure to Living/Residential and Logistics/Industrial assets.
• Strong operational understanding and the ability to assess the commercial implications of development, leasing, capex, valuation and asset-level decisions.
• An established leadership track record, having managed and developed high-quality teams whilst retaining the appetite and capability to remain personally involved in assets and key decisions.
• Commercially and financially strong, able to interrogate business plans and financial models, understand the key drivers of returns and challenge investment assumptions constructively.
• Experience working with joint venture or operating partners and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
• An entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, with the confidence to challenge senior investment colleagues when required and the energy to help build a growing German platform.
• Fluency in German and English.

Stoneleaf Search is a specialist real assets executive search practice operating across the UK & Europe. We are working exclusively with our client to manage the search for a Head of Value-Add Asset Management for Germany. By applying to this role, you confirm that you are happy for Stoneleaf Search to hold and process your personal data for legitimate interest purposes. Background and reference checks will be undertaken at the appropriate stage in the recruitment process, but not without your prior knowledge and consent.

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