Job Description
Responsible for the commercial portfolio, integrating commercial real estate excellence with strategic leasing and asset performance optimization, to protect and grow long-term shareholder value. This role steers the physical, operational and financial performance of our commercial assets, aligning customer experience, design/digital ambition, operational efficiency and reliability, and capital investment into one integrated strategy to ensure the assets achieve our Group's standards of distinction, governance and enduring financial, operational, and experiential performance with long-term capital appreciation.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Strategy and Leasing
- Oversee the Group's commercial strategy and asset portfolio, driving sustainable revenue growth through a customer-centric and data-informed approach.
- Integrate market intelligence, customer insights, and performance analytics to shape decision-making and foster a competitor-aware, innovation-driven culture.
- Lead the transformation of physical assets, operating models, and teams to adapt to evolving customer behaviors, enhancing service delivery, engagement, and retention.
- Spearhead digital transformation initiatives across assets and platforms, embedding technology and data systems to enable smarter, seamless customer experiences.
- Networked to industry experts and track record in effective vendor/ consultant engagement to strengthen the commercial and performance management framework, linking asset marketing and leasing strategies to measurable financial outcomes and enterprise growth objectives.
Asset Performance
- Drive portfolio-wide asset performance strategies to enhance customer satisfaction, optimize revenues, and reduce long-term operating costs through efficiency and reliability.
- Introduce value-creation initiatives that combine revenue growth, cost optimization, and develop new ancillary income models.
- Guide OPEX prioritization and lifecycle planning in collaboration with property management, engineering, and project management teams to improve building efficiency and performance without compromising service levels.
- Strengthen governance, procurement, and contract management frameworks to ensure operational excellence and accountability across all assets.
- Foster cross-functional alignment between commercial, finance, legal, projects, and operations teams to deliver integrated business outcomes, enhance asset value, and achieve shareholder objectives.
Strategy & Development Management
- Lead portfolio-wide asset positioning, upgrading, rejuvenation, master planning, and redevelopment initiatives in alignment with long-term portfolio strategy and
- CAPEX priorities including feasibility studies, regulatory engagement, anddesign brief development.
- Translate design and technical ambition into commercially viable projects through executable development frameworks with clear ROI, payback models, and shareholder alignment.
- Formulate and manage CAPEX investment priorities, ensuring disciplined allocation of resources and adherence to value-creation objectives across the portfolio.
- Support capital recycling and new investment opportunities through data-driven insights into performance, valuations, and market dynamics; underwrite opportunities via rigorous financial, technical, and market analyses.
- Prepare Board and management submissions independently, organized with relevant supporting data sets and viable assumptions for business outcomes to support informed decision-making.
Key Requirements
- Good University qualifications in Engineering, Business, Real Estate or Finance.
- Over 20 years working experience with multi-disciplinary skills including investment, business development, commercial strategy, asset management, lease management, development, and operational management.
- Keen business acumen with proven success managing portfolios, with varied asset typologies, regulatory operational and development environments.
- Deep governance background, and able to operate with agility and precision to synthesise complex customer, operator, and shareholder perspectives into clear, actionable strategies.
- Culturally fluent with both Asian and Western prospects/ tenants. Track record in leading cross-functional teams on both owner and occupier side within multi-national corporate real estate or institutional platforms.
- Proven track record of institutional discipline in OPEX/CAPEX controls,value-creation programs and digital-physical business transformation. Experience in luxury properties and service-oriented office-retail-residential/hospitality dynamics is a plus.
- Strong hands-on command of financial modelling, marketing analytics, investment analysis, commercial negotiation, project economics, leasing strategy, customer-centric design and development, capital planning and cost control, and operational optimisation.
- Entrepreneurial and collaborative team player who thrives in problem-solving, driving change and delivering outcomes in complex environments; operating with strong integrity, accountability and commitment to delivering long-term value.
At Pontiac Land, our Human Capital Vision is:
Each individual valued, respected and contributing.
Each team cohesive, learning and aligned.
Each leader serving, coaching and modelling excellence.
Exciting benefits and opportunities await talents who join us! We seek to offer the following:
- A nurturing and team-based culture, with structured training and career development opportunities
- Comprehensive medical coverage, health and wellness programmes and Flexible Benefits for customized suite of benefits
- Unique schemes and benefits and inclusive of employee rates at our hotels and retail mall, birthday leave, examination leave and volunteer leave
