Principal - Real Estate Advisory

Job Description

Job Description

We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world's investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.

Position Overview

The Principal of StepStone Real Estate (SRE) will play a critical role in building and servicing discretionary and advisory client relationships in a highly collaborative, team-oriented, technology-forward environment. The role sits within our Manager Research team, which is responsible for covering primary fund investments, client service for discretionary accounts that are wholistic or primaries oriented, and the firm's outstanding advisory practice The candidate must have training and experience in top-down construction of real estate portfolios, including consideration of client goals and constraints as well as tactical market opportunities and the ability to effectively discuss strategies.

The role is principally oriented towards commingled fund investments and will involve manager coverage and oversight of investment evaluations including Fund Summaries, Investment Committee memos and other ad hoc materials as needed. The candidate will also hold a senior role on client accounts that will involve making portfolio construction and investment recommendations to clients and SRE's internal committees.

Essential Job Functions :

• Client coverage manager, where success includes earning the role of trusted advisor and executing well. This involves application of both top-down portfolio construction and bottom-up investment selection with the goal of delivering portfolios that meet client goals and deliver outperformance. There is a formal portfolio planning framework, and the candidate is welcome to assist in improving this process over time. Responsibilities include delivering highly responsive, prompt and accurate client service, guiding and educating clients effectively, client onboarding, leveraging specialty skills across StepStone as needed, and managing supporting resources and team.
• New business development – The primary role is to work with the client prospect to build the relationship, develop confidence in SRE and convert opportunities. This will include

discussion of investment approach and tailoring a client-oriented strategy, often in considerable detail with models, as needed, in a client-centered process.

Key role in building and maintaining a collaborative, connected and vibrant culture in the NY research team, with good connectivity across shared functions within the global Manager Research team

Other functions

Education and / or Work Experience Requirements :

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Other Attributes :

Salary Range - $170,000 - $180,000

The salary range is an estimate of pay for this position. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related factors that can include location, education, skill, and experience. The salary range does not include any benefits or other forms of possible compensation that may be available to employees.

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