About the Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 31 October 2025

                                                                                                                   

Title                 Senior Real Estate Asset Manager

Department      Real Estate - European Portfolio & Asset Management

Location          Kronberg im Taunus, Germany

Reports To       Head of Asset Management, Real Estate

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our real estate team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team :

The real estate division of Fidelity International was founded in 2006 and launched its first funds for institutional investors in 2008, since when it has attracted a range of blue-chip clients from continental Europe, the UK, Canada and Asia. Current real estate AuM is in the region of €2.5 billion. The experienced team of fund managers, asset managers, transaction managers, research professionals, analysts and operations professionals are based in five locations across Europe (London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Luxembourg).

The team has established strong performance track records and we are building on this success by both growing our existing flagship funds, and further developing the business through new funds, including funds focused on climate impact investing.

We are committed to sustainable investing and have firmly embedded sustainability in all steps of our investment process, from the time of acquisition, throughout the holding period and until disposition. We have set a range of sustainability targets and proactively engage with our tenants and suppliers to drive improvements.

About your role :

This position offers an exciting opportunity to join an established and successful team. Reporting directly to our Head of Asset Management for real estate, who is based in Kronberg / Frankfurt and who has primary responsibility for real estate asset management across all Europe, you will embrace and thrive on the challenge of contributing to outperformance in the coming years. Your role will focus on actively managing German assets with focus on value-add initiatives ranging from mid-scale refurbishments to large scale repositioning of commercial properties in particular logistics to improve financial and sustainability performance, in close cooperation with external advisors. The portfolio within the regional scope comprises a growing portfolio of office, retail, light industrial and logistics properties, with strong bias towards value-add initiatives.

Key responsibilities include asset management and investment support.

Asset Management

• Identifying and implementing opportunities for value and sustainability enhancement strategies: this includes exploring repositioning potential of the properties, co-ordinating redevelopment and refurbishment work, managing letting activities, lease negotiations and tenant fit-out and potential for improvement in the asset´s sustainability credentials
• Development of individual sustainability measures for each asset to obtain and improve Green Building Certification (e.g. BREEAM), EPCs, etc., applying energy saving measures and management initiatives, reviewing measures for applying renewables / non-fossil energy solutions with solar panels, heat pumps, etc., engaging with tenants and suppliers; measuring against the net zero carbon pathway
• Selection, assignment and oversight of relevant third parties such as property managers, technical and sustainability advisors, project managers, architects, letting brokers, marketing managers and lawyers
• Inspecting assets regularly and building close relationships with our tenant base
• Professional, active leasing and negotiation of rental agreements for commercial space and proactive tenant and roll-over management exploring value creation opportunities to meet both tenant needs and cash flow generation
• Supporting in the execution of disinvestment strategies considering optimum life and market cycle timing to generate superior returns
• Drafting, reviewing and updating business plans: carrying out cash flow and profitability analyses to support decisions in relation to leasing and capital expenditures, including sustainability measures
• Setting up and monitoring budgets for project works and reporting on progress
• Reviewing service charge reconciliations and approving maintenance budgets including preparation and maintenance o