Asset Manager - Care Homes

Octopus; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus

Pension

Share incentive plan

Untracked holiday

Hybrid working (office + home)

Anchor wellness hub

Job summary

Octopus is seeking a senior asset manager to own a portfolio of operational care homes. You will drive income, value, and risk-adjusted returns, coordinating with operators, consultants and valuers. You’ll report to the Fund Manager and shape asset strategies for long-term performance.

You’ll analyse trading data, manage rent reviews, ESG submissions and capital expenditure, while leading planning and reporting for the OHF portfolio. Hybrid working is offered.

Qualifications

• Substantial and hands-on commercial real estate asset management experience.
• A solid grasp of asset management principles, including leases and rent reviews.
• Experience managing third-party operators, professional advisers and other stakeholders.
• Able to run several projects at once and keep them organised.
• Comfortable analysing trading and financial performance data and presenting clear recommendations.
• Able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Experience in healthcare real estate, care homes, social infrastructure or other operational real estate.
• If you meet most but not all of this, we’d still love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Deliver asset management strategies to grow income, value and risk-adjusted returns.
• Build relationships with operators, consultants and other stakeholders and report to the Fund Manager.
• Analyze quarterly operator data (occupancy, fees, staffing, margins, EBITDA, rent cover) and create dashboards for reporting.
• Track forward-funded developments with colleagues, reviewing milestones, budgets and risks.
• Manage building surveys, due diligence and valuation inspections with external valuers.
• Lead index-linked rent reviews and monitor lease events.
• Implement OHF’s ESG and sustainability strategy with operators and consultants, including ESG submissions and investor reporting.
• Contribute to annual budgeting and forecasting with investment and ESG colleagues.

Skills

Asset management experience

Leases and rent reviews

Stakeholder management

Financial data analysis

Autonomy

MRICS accreditation

Education

MRICS accreditation

Job description

At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.

Job Description

Why this role
Own a portfolio of operational care homes where good asset management means better places for people to live as well as stronger returns. You’ll work directly with the Fund Manager and the wider investment team, and cover everything from rent reviews and forward-funded developments to ESG. You’ll see the results in the buildings themselves.

The role
You’ll own the delivery of agreed asset management strategies across the OHF portfolio. That means growing income, value and risk-adjusted returns, working with operators, consultants and valuers. It matters because care homes are people’s homes, and how well they’re run and maintained affects residents and families as much as investors.

What you’ll do

Manage the portfolio

• Deliver agreed asset management strategies, spotting ways to improve income, value and risk-adjusted returns
• Build strong relationships with operators, consultants and other stakeholders, and give the Fund Manager clear reporting and recommendations
• Analyse quarterly operator trading data (occupancy, fee rates, staffing, agency use, margins, EBITDA, rent cover) against budgets and underwriting, and turn it into dashboards and reports

Look after the buildings and leases

• Track forward-funded developments with development colleagues, reviewing milestones, budgets, programmes and risks, and escalating issues early
• Manage building surveys, technical due diligence and valuation inspections with external valuers, and monitor asset condition and capital expenditure
• Lead index-linked rent reviews and monitor lease compliance and key lease events
• Put OHF’s ESG and sustainability strategy into practice with operators and consultants, including GRESB (Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark) submissions and investor reporting

Plan ahead

• Contribute to annual business planning, budgeting and forecasting, and work closely with investment and ESG colleagues

Qualifications

Substantial and hands-on commercial real estate asset management experience

A solid grasp of asset management principles, including leases and rent reviews

Experience managing third-party operators, professional advisers and other stakeholders

Able to run several projects at once and keep them organised

Comfortable analysing trading and financial performance data and presenting clear recommendations

Able to work with a high degree of autonomy

MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or equivalent professional accreditation

Experience in healthcare real estate, care homes, social infrastructure or other operational real estate

If you meet most but not all of this, we’d still love to hear from you.

Additional Information

What we offer

• A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
• Untracked holiday
• Hybrid working – three days in the office, two days from home
• Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, employee assistance program & more
• Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender
• Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• Electric vehicle leasing
• The option to work overseas up to a month per year

Our Values
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.