Development Manager – Retail Parks (Romania)

• We are seeking an experienced Development Manager to lead the development and investment in retail parks across Romania. The ideal candidate will bring proven expertise in real estate development, with a strong commitment to ethical standards and an unwavering sense of loyalty and integrity.

• Proven experience in real estate development, ideally in retail or commercial projects.
• Strong understanding of the Romanian real estate market, including zoning, legal, and regulatory frameworks.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously.
• Unwavering ethical standards, integrity, and a strong sense of loyalty.
• Ability to negotiate effectively and manage contracts with contractors, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Fluency in Romanian and proficiency in English; knowledge of additional languages is a plus.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Project Management: Oversee all phases of retail park development, from site identification and acquisition to planning, construction, and final delivery.
• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to identify potential opportunities, ensuring alignment with company objectives and market trends.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Build and maintain strong relationships with local authorities, contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution.
• Budget and Timeline Oversight: Develop, manage, and monitor budgets and project timelines to ensure projects are delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Compliance: Ensure all projects comply with Romanian regulations, zoning laws, and environmental standards.
• Ethical Oversight: Uphold the highest standards of ethical conduct, ensuring transparency and avoiding conflicts of interest.
• Reporting: Provide regular updates and comprehensive reports to senior management on project progress and market developments.

Falcon Investment Management is an investment fund that is active in the retail park market in Poland. The company’s strategy is to build and own a strong portfolio of retail centres. Due to the long-term nature of the investments the fund is mainly interested in centres that dominate both through their scale and their location. These so-called Power Centres are well-located with good communications and house leading branded stores that are attractive to customers thus bringing in footfall from surrounding towns.

Falcon Investment Management actively invests to grow its real estate portfolio based on a number of operating models: it acquires completed centres, it collaborates on different forms of business partnerships, and it develops its own centres. The company places great importance on working together with other players in the market including owners of investment land, sellers and contractors. So far Falcon Investment Management has worked with partners that include: Acteeum Central Europe, Refield , Multishop and Genesis Property.

The strength of the company is its team, which comprises the best experts in the market with many years of experience in the sector, which has been gained from work for developers, retail chains and consultancies. Within the fund can also be found expansion and real estate acquisition departments as well as divisions for leasing, technical maintenance and financing.