Business Development Manager - Asset Management

Kaizen Asset Management Services · Dubai, covering the UAE · Full-time · Mid level
Kaizen is seeking a commercially driven, Arabic-speaking Business Development Manager to grow its asset management portfolio across the UAE. This is a newly created role with a mandate to win new asset management mandates from landlords, family offices, private capital, institutional owners and developers with rental stock, and to generate pipeline for Kaizen’s owners association, unit management and capital markets teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Business development and pipeline

• Identify and target whole-building residential and mixed-use assets across the UAE, focusing on landlords managing their own buildings or using smaller local operators, family office portfolios, institutional owners and developers’ retained stock.
• Build and manage a structured pipeline in the CRM, converting relationships into signed asset management mandates.
• Make the case for outsourced asset management: NOI and value growth, compliance, reporting and governance.
• Attend building handovers, developer launches and industry events to secure opportunities ahead of the market.

Asset reviews, proposals and contracts

• Sell the paid asset review, Kaizen’s entry point for new clients, delivered by the Director of Asset Management.
• Develop tailored proposals, presen