Business Development Manager

About Cove: Cove is the new way to rent your home! We’re a co-living start-up making it easier and more affordable for young people to have a comfortable place they can call home with a seamless rental experience from end to end. We provide our tenants with stylishly furnished properties, in the most awesome locations in Singapore and Jakarta and make the whole rental process seamless from end to end. Our contract terms are flexible like our tenant’s lives and our rental prices include everything from utilities and wifi and weekly cleaning. What’s unique about Cove is that our tenants get matched with great flatmates and also have access to our community events around the city. Check us out: https://cove.sg/

At Cove we reward and praise strong performance and strive to produce zero-defect results. We always aim for excellence and to always have the mindset of continuous improvement. In achieving results, we still make work fun and we completely value our team as people, not just resources in which we display care as well as empathy. Celebrating success with our team is also our priority and we highly encourage integrity and transparency.

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Job Type: 6 months contract with potential for permanent employment

Reports To: Head of Business Development

Role Purpose: The Business Development Manager will play a key role in the end to end process of closing deals for Cove's business expansion.

Core Responsibilities:·

• Source real estate opportunities, conduct site feasibility, market and pricing analysis
• Conduct pro-forma financial projections and analysis
• Lead structuring and preparation of proposals to counterparty
• Lead negotiations and legal documentation process
• Assist with project management of signed deals that require refurbishment works
• Identify new sub-markets for business growth
• Build and maintain relationships with investment partners, owners and service providers

Experience and Qualifications required

• Tertiary qualified in Real Estate, Business, Economics or a related field
• A minimum of 3 years of working experience in real estate
• End to end deal transaction experience from leading due diligence to legal documentation
• Strong preference for candidates with local market knowledge of the residential and/or hospitality landscape as well as candidates with strong existing network (across agents, landlords and developers) to source for real estate opportunities

Core Skills/Competencies:

• Good business acumen and knowledge of current business trends
• Team player with good communication and interpersonal skills
• Analytical, detailed oriented, creative problem solver
• Organized and able to prioritize tasks to accomplish them effectively
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
  

What’s in it for You: Working for Cove gives you the opportunity to join an exciting young start-up incubated through Antler.co. There will be lots to learn as you’ll be working directly with the co-founders Luca and Guillaume and get to experience first hand what it takes to get a new high-growth business off the ground. In your role, you’ll have the opportunity to hit the ground running and take ownership from day one. We will always welcome your inputs and ideas and actively encourage your development. The team is fast paced, hard-working and expects results but we also highly value our employee engagement and are committed to a human and empathetic environment with plenty of fun thrown in.