Civil Engineering | Asset Management Associate - Lisbon / Algarve

Norfin is a leading Real Estate Investment Manager founded in 1999 and with over €2.1bn of assets under management in funds, SICs or SPVs, with a high diversity of profiles and strategies across all real estate and real estate connected sectors for a wide range of institutional investors. In 2018, Norfin was acquired by Arrow Global, a pan-European alternative asset manager focusing on credit and real estate, with over €5.3bn of funds under management. Arrow Global was incorporated in 2005 and has recently been acquired by TDR Capital, a European private equity firm.

Further information available at www.norfin.pt and https://www.arrowglobal.net/

Our success is built by the junction of our high-performance, talented, innovative team with our corporate culture of excellence, meritocracy, and cooperation in order to fulfil our mission: “Create Better Financial Futures”. We recognize the importance of having both the best individuals and providing them with the means and the motivation to excel and to jointly build a team stronger than the sum of its parts.

Due to the company’s continual growth and forthcoming capital deployment stream, Norfin intends to select: Asset Management Associate

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Managing contracts, timelines, and budgets, ensuring compliance with the defined objectives;
• Evaluating and selecting suppliers and contractors;
• Managing and coordinating the analysis for real estate projects in all phases and specialties;
• Implementing tender models, preparing and launching the tendering processes in all phases and specialties, analyzing proposals with award proposal;
• Coordinating various teams: architectural and specialty designers, interior design, project management and supervision, cost controller, and other consultants applicable to each project;
• Effectively monitoring the works and managing the project teams, supervising project execution and resource management;
• Ensuring the final quality of the works, minimizing potential defects/future problems.
• Ensuring compliance with legal and quality standards;
• Monitoring project progress and preparing reports;
• Implementing cost reduction and efficiency strategies;
• Evaluating and interacting with suppliers and contractors, selecting suitable partners for each project;
• Technical knowledge in after-sales service for residential buildings.

Role Requirements:

• Education degree in Civil Engineering (preferred) or Architecture;
• Minimum of 4 years' experience in a similar role (Project Management);
• Experience in the real estate sector will be a plus;
• Experience or contact with Investment Analysis will be a plus;
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, enthusiastic, willingness to work as part of a team;
• Autonomous, initiative, entrepreneurial, and result-driven culture;
• strong analytical skills and competency in financial analysis and understanding of licensing regulations;
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, MS Project;
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
• Creative thinking, capability to develop innovative solutions;
• Proficiency in both written and spoken English and Portuguese.

Full-Time / Lisbon or Algarve