Development Manager (Japan)

Location: Osaka/Tokyo, Japan

• Conduct feasibility studies for potential hotel management deals, partake in work relating to bidding or tendering process, including market research and underwriting of each potential project including critical market and competitive data, tracking and establishing pickup trends, occupancy history, and provide recommendations to management
• Conduct market research and assist in generating investment and development leads through contacts with developers, lending institutions, independent hotel operators, hotel brokers, hotel consultants and government tourism bodies, track new projects pipeline, maintain both deal and contact databases
• Develop financial projections, presentations, proposals and pitch materials in connection to each business development opportunity and work with various internal stakeholders to prepare proposals, including hotel operations and technical services team
• Work with development team to develop and implement business development strategies to grow the business and secure new hotel management contracts

• Possess at least a Bachelor's Degree in either Hospitality, Business, Real Estate or a related field, from a recognised institution
• Relevant experience in the hospitality or real estate industry preferred

• Minimum 2 – 4 years’ of working experience in either an analyst, associate or consultancy role in a hospitality or real estate related field.

• Well versed in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word, including financial modelling, graphs charting and presentatio
• Be an independent learner, team player and enjoy working within a dynamic group and fast paced environmen
• Be meticulous and has the ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently and in an organized way
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills with strong logical thinking capability, including the ability to communicate efficiently to various stakeholders
• Proficient research experience with ability to independently collect and evaluate economic and local market data