Real Estate, Portfolio Management Associate

The portfolio management role sits within Nuveen Real Estate’s retail sector specialist platform which is more than $20 billion of AUM across the risk spectrum and sits within Nuveen Real Estate’s overall $145 billion platform. Within the retail platform, this role would be focused on various open and closed-end real estate funds that invest in a variety of retail subsectors. In order to drive investment performance, the role is heavily focused on financial modeling to inform investment and financing recommendations. The role will also include creating presentations for current clients and prospects including quarterly reporting. This role also works closely with various Nuveen Real Estate teams across acquisitions, asset management, development, and capital markets, as well as the distribution, product, research, finance, and marketing.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Maintains extensive proprietary financial models to monitor and analyze the financial performance of the real estate portfolio, potential new investments, and financing.
Assists in ongoing property valuations, develops strategies for maximizing value, and creates hold/sell analysis in partnership with the sector focused teams.
Benchmarks investments against underwriting metrics (i.e. revenue, expenses, capital expenditures, tenant credit, leases) in order to make future hold/sell recommendations.
Collaborates with real estate asset management, finance, and performance measurement teams to obtain portfolio/asset information and prepare performance analysis and reports.
Assists in drafting and presenting investment memorandums to the Investment Committee.
Analyzes each potential investment’s underwriting, working with deal teams to sensitize returns and to determine the role each asset will play in a portfolio.
Works closely with asset management teams on construction draw requests and timing, current and future capital expenditure requirements and helping set performance budgets for each property to drive performance.
Supports fund raising and investor relations efforts including but not limited to setting and executing capital raising strategy, annual investor conferences, advisory committee meetings, DDQ and RFP review, fulfilling investor requests, investor on-site meetings, and ongoing investor relations.
Works closely with Nuveen Real Estate’s sustainability team to development ESG metrics for each fund and tracks these metrics to ensure each target is being met.

Educational Requirements

University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
6IC

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of 2+ years of real estate experience

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of real estate experience
Retail sector experience
ARGUS experience

Related Skills

Business Development, Client Relationship Management, Due Diligence, Financial Analysis, Financial Risk Management, Investment Management, Investment Strategy Acumen, Investor Relationship Management, Market/Industry Dynamics, Opportunity Strategy, Organizational Savviness, Portfolio Management, Real Estate Investments

Anticipated Posting End Date:

2025-08-13

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

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