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Rockbourne is delighted to be working exclusively with one of the UK's leading purpose-built student accommodation and co-living platforms to appoint a Fund Manager
With ambitions to double the size of the fund over the next 12 to 24 months, the business needs a commercially astute, self-starting fund manager to take full ownership of the portfolio and lead its next phase of growth.
This is a genuinely rare opportunity to run one of the largest private living-sector funds in the UK, within a fully integrated, entrepreneurial platform with sales, marketing, operations and development all in-house.
The Why?
Track Record
Our client has built one of the strongest operating platforms in the UK living sector. The fund's primary investor has a strong track record of supporting recapitalisations of the operational real estate platforms it backs, and is fully aligned behind the growth plan.
Team / Culture
The business is young, informal, and genuinely entrepreneurial, but highly professional and detail-obsessed where it counts. It is a flat, meritocratic team; those who have thrived here bring personality, hunger, and a genuine willingness to work hand-in-glove with every part of the business rather than in a silo.
Autonomy
You will take full day-to-day ownership of the fund and be the primary relationship owner for its institutional investor. You will have genuine license to bring creative capital solutions to the table rather than simply executing instructions.
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For the right person, there is scope over time to input into wider group strategy.
What do you need to bring to the table?
- 12+ years' experience in real estate investment, asset management, or fund management, with a meaningful proportion of that in operational real estate; PBSA, BTR, co-living, or other living sectors strongly preferred.
- A track record either as an existing fund manager, or as a senior investment director or asset manager with genuine ownership experience, looking to make the step up into full fund management responsibility.
- Advanced Excel modelling capability.
- A demonstrable track record managing institutional LP relationships and presenting to senior investment committees with genuine authority.
- Comfortable being put in front of senior institutional stakeholders and representing a brand credibly and authentically to the outside world.
- A genuine self-starter with a realistic, current understanding of the capital markets; comfortable in your own skin from day one.
- A collaborative team player who genuinely wants to work hand-in-glove with sales, marketing, operations, and development, rather than running your own agenda.
- Degree-educated in Real Estate, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline; RICS, FCA, or CFA advantageous.
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The Role:
- Take full day-to-day ownership of the fund: driving sales strategy, occupancy, and net income performance across the existing portfolio.
- Identify and execute value-add opportunities, taking an ongoing, critical view on whether to hold, churn, or sell individual assets.
- Act as the day-to-day relationship owner for the fund's primary institutional investor: reporting, relationship management, and being the fund's institutional face to the investor.
- Work with the development team to understand what assets are being warehoused in the pipeline, and how and when they can be brought into the fund to support growth.
- Bring pipeline and market awareness to the table: understanding what's available in the market, and what new capital should be invested in and why.
- Originate creative capital structuring solutions to bridge timing gaps ahead of a full recapitalisation, and ultimately lead that recapitalisation process.
Other Details:
- Salary: Depending on experience and fit
- Bonus: Discretionary
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