Portfolio Consultant

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated in Gurugram, India, is seeking a Portfolio Operations/Portfolio Solutions professional to shape and monitor portfolio strategies. You will work with clients and account leads to optimize portfolios, reduce costs, and mitigate risk using data-driven insights.

Responsibilities include lease events, market benchmarking, and collaboration with internal/external teams to ensure effective occupancy solutions.

Qualifications

• Post graduate degree with 3–4 years of work experience; real estate portfolio strategy & transaction exposure preferred.
• Strong MS Excel skills with grip on real estate cash flows for opportunity assessment.
• Eye for detail and emotional intelligence to manage clients across cultures and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee portfolio strategies to identify risks and opportunities aligned with client goals.
• Monitor and mitigate portfolio risk, enhance governance, and reduce costs.
• Support transactions including lease events, market analyses and negotiation strategies.
• Collaborate with account leads, brokers and clients to define space needs and occupancy solutions.

Skills

MS Excel

Financial literacy

Analytical thinking

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Education

Postgraduate degree

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

Portfolio Operations/ Portfolio Solutions –Gurgaon, India

What this job involves:

Overseeing portfolio strategies to identify potential risk and opportunities aligned with client’s long- and short- term business goals. The position will be part of the team assisting real estate portfolio strategies of leading clients.

The candidate will work with our clients as well as account leads to monitor and mitigate portfolio risk, enhance governance, provide consistency and efficiencies, while proactively building portfolio strategies to optimise portfolios and reduce costs.

Teamwork: The candidate needs to work with account leads and local brokers to help our clients define space requirements, market benchmarking , identify suitable alternatives, recommend appropriate occupancy solutions, and negotiate contract terms on their behalf – all guided by data and analytics to provide relevant insights.

Research and Analytics: Interact with internal and external stakeholders to solicit their feedback to refine and finalize and develop portfolio strategies across the regions. Examples of portfolio strategies are: Country Plans, Metro plans, as relevant, for a city or combination of cities to identify opportunities for portfolio rationalisation, in view of intrinsic business, and extrinsic market factors.

Evaluating different scenarios & preparing an early stage business case (opportunity assessment) followed by high level financial analysis to support the same.

Preparing cost optimisation strategies & recommendations in view of business strategies and operations. (consolidation, relocation, lease disposition, blend & extend). Lease versus own recommendations for an asset or a portfolio of assets.

Client and Competitor Intelligence: The candidate will need to leverage internal JLL resources and tools to introduce and integrate best market practices; work closely with internal, external and service provider teams to assemble relevant data and information.

Winning our clients’ trust: Collaborating with Client’s Real Estate Leads to understand the long- and short- term business and portfolio goals, proactively demonstrate good governance and stewardship of client’s portfolio.

Sound like you? Being Analytical. Along with the portfolio strategy, the role will have the responsibility for providing transaction support to the account. This will include, though not limited to, the following:

• Lease event monitoring, comparing lease terms to market, development of negotiation strategies and reporting into the JLL Account lead then managing a process to either renew leases, conduct rent reviews or exit sites.
• Prepare a critical lease events tracker and initiate projects on time through the JLL Account lead.
• Prepare all materials required in the transaction process not limited to appointment letters; market comparable reports; notices under the lease; letters of offer; financials; client business cases, close out reports in liaison with JLL Account lead.

Meticulous. You must pay attention to detail and have excellent problem‑solving skills. We are the delivery arm for the client, and they depend on us ensuring we are infallible.

Qualifications

You will require to have a post graduate degree with at least 3 – 4 years of work experience while real estate portfolio strategy & transaction exposure is preferred, strategic thought processes is vital in processing and analysing data in order to reach key conclusions followed by advanced financial literacy. An eye for detail, and emotional intelligence to personality‑manage clients in different cultures and geographies will be a differentiator for this role. Strong MS Excel skills with grip on real estate cash flows for developing an opportunity assessment, and an ability to appropriately articulate messaging along with conflict resolution with multiple real estate stakeholders, are necessary capability requirements.

What we can do for you:

• At JLL, we make sure that you become the best version of yourself by helping you realise your full potential in an entrepreneurial and inclusive work environment.
• We will empower your ambitions through our dedicated Total Rewards Program, competitive pay and benefits package.

Location: On‑site –Gurugram, HR Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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