Associate – Asset Management (Residential/Commercial)

Role Overview

Associate – Asset Management (Residential/Commercial) at Aldar Properties. This role supports residential and commercial asset performance through analysis, reporting and execution support.

Role Purpose

Support residential and commercial asset performance through monitoring, analysis and reporting against approved targets, while leveraging AI, analytics and market insights to strengthen asset-level analysis and enable value-creation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Asset Performance & Analysis

• Monitor asset performance across NOI, occupancy, rental growth and key operational KPIs.
• Prepare asset performance reports, dashboards and variance analysis to support management decisions.
• Identify performance gaps and provide analysis to support corrective and value-enhancement actions.
• Maintain accurate asset-level financial, operational and performance data.

Leasing & Commercial Support

• Track leasing activity, renewals, expiries, occupancy, pricing and tenant and customer trends.
• Conduct market research and benchmarking on rents, occupancy, supply, pricing and competitor performance.
• Support analysis of commercialization and ancillary revenue opportunities.
• Provide analytical inputs to leasing, pricing and retention decisions.

Asset Enhancement & Value Creation

• Support enhancement and repositioning initiatives, tracking delivery, CAPEX and performance against business cases.
• Assist in preparing financial and commercial analysis for enhancement and value-creation initiatives.
• Monitor realized outcomes against approved investment assumptions and targets.
• Support analysis for hold, enhance, reposition or exit recommendations.

Operational & Partner Coordination

• Monitor property and facility managers and external operators against agreed performance and service KPIs.
• Support coordination of operational issues, asset requirements and performance improvement actions.
• Assist with JV, governance and relevant asset documentation and reporting.
• Support compliance, ESG and sustainability data requirements across assigned assets.

Analytics, AI & Decision Support

• Use AI and advanced analytics to enhance asset analysis, reporting, forecasting and market intelligence.
• Develop asset-level insights and recommendations for the Director and Associate Director – Asset Management.
• Support benchmarking and trend analysis to identify risks and value-creation opportunities.
• Collaborate with Investment & Capital Planning and Portfolio Performance & Intelligence on data and reporting.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 2+ years in real estate, property management, investment banking or a related analytical role.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Real Estate or related field.
• MBA or CFA progress advantageous.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; advanced Excel proficiency.
• PowerPoint proficiency for executive presentations.
• Financial modeling fundamentals.
• Research, data compilation and benchmarking skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple internal teams.
• Application of AI and analytics to asset performance, forecasting and decision support.