Take the helm of an entrepreneurial real estate company. Structure its operations and drive its next phase of growth. A specialized player in the acquisition, valorization, and resale of real estate assets, particularly industrial buildings and warehouses, is seeking its future CEO. The company relies on two complementary founders, a strong ability to identify opportunities, and a close-knit team.
It now wishes to entrust its daily management to a leader capable of organizing execution, strengthening financial discipline, and supporting an acceleration of its development. You will work in direct contact with the founders, supported by a strategic guidance team. Your impact will be concrete: decisions made, teams empowered, operations better managed, and profitable growth achieved.
Your responsibilities.
- Take charge of company management
- Translate the founders' ambitions into a roadmap, clarify responsibilities, and establish useful management rituals
- Arbitrate priorities and follow commitments through to completion
- Supervise real estate operations
- Coordinate teams and partners, manage project leaders and construction managers, monitor budgets, deadlines
- Anticipate risks and streamline every step, from acquisition to resale
- Strengthen financial management
- Build and monitor business plans, cash flow forecasts, and financing needs
- Challenge the profitability of operations, prepare financing files, and maintain a relationship of trust with investors and financial partners
- Grow the organization
- Manage a human-sized team, support managers, and identify necessary recruitments
- Implement sufficiently robust processes to support growth, while preserving decision-making speed
- Form an effective trio with the founders
- Provide framework, perspective
- Be able to challenge a decision, propose an alternative, and gain buy-in in a demanding entrepreneurial environment
What they ask
- Proven experience in leading a company, a subsidiary, or an activity in real estate, with real responsibility for teams, operations, and economic performance
- Concrete understanding of real estate development, investment, promotion, or buying and selling
- Experience with industrial assets, warehouses, or division and valorization operations is a particularly relevant asset
- Ability to build a budget, analyze an operational balance sheet, monitor cash flow, and engage with financiers
- Experience in structuring an organization: responsibilities, indicators, tools, management routines, and working methods
- Leadership based on clarity, demanding standards, and the ability to drive others forward
- Comfortable working with highly involved founders, able to defend a point of view and adapt your approach without losing sight of the goal
- Appreciation for environments where daily decision-making, organization, and action are required
Practical
- A CEO role with a central part in decisions, organization
- A company positioned in a real estate niche and engaged in a new phase of development
- Direct collaboration with the founders and external strategic support
- A privileged independent status, with a view to lasting collaboration
- A value creation incentive mechanism over a three-year horizon to be built with the selected leader
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