Junior Portfolio Analyst

We offer an opportunity you simply won’t find anywhere else. In less than six years, Mileway has grown into Europe’s leader in last mile logistics real estate, with a 550-plus team across twenty six offices in eleven countries.

Are you proactive, dynamic and driven, ready to take the first or next step in your real estate career? We are looking for a Junior Portfolio Analyst to join our Asset Management Netherlands team at the Mileway headquarters in Amsterdam. As part of our young and dynamic team, you’ll work closely with your direct colleagues in the Dutch Asset Management team and engage with various central teams at our headquarters.

Reporting directly to our Senior Portfolio Analyst, you will help drive the development of our 2.3 million m² portfolio in the Netherlands and strengthen our leadership in the last-mile logistics real estate market. This is a growing team and company, offering a unique opportunity to gain valuable professional experience.

Guided by experienced colleagues, you will conduct in-depth analyses and develop the market expertise needed to grow our business. You provide crucial support and market-specific insights to help optimize our performance and ensure effective reporting to our stakeholders. You will join a fast-growing and ambitious company with many opportunities to contribute and innovate. You will also work closely with our Portfolio Finance & Management Team, either on ad-hoc or long-term projects.

You’ll be joining a young and ambitious company, so there are plenty of opportunities to contribute, and some pioneering to be done. We operate at high speed with no shortage of challenges to solve. The right candidate has not only the drive and discipline to handle the day to day, but the ambition to grow with us as we develop an unparalleled opportunity as the principal player in last mile real estate.

Working at Mileway

We offer an opportunity you simply won’t find anywhere else. Launched in 2019, Mileway has rapidly grown into Europe’s leader in last-mile logistics real estate, with a team of over 550 across more than twenty offices in 11 countries. From the start, Mileway set out to be a different kind of real estate company, with a cloud-based IT infrastructure and a team that combines local expertise with the pooled strengths of a pan-European presence.

Our culture is fast-paced and highly international, with team members from more than 50 countries, bringing diverse perspectives and a “can-do” attitude to everything we do. While we have already achieved a lot, we’re only just getting started – our purpose is to be Europe’s leading provider of last mile logistics real estate, enabling businesses to thrive, driving sustainability forward, and shaping the cities of tomorrow. To get there, we live by our values: Drive, Trust, Grow, Together.

At Mileway, we believe company growth comes from supporting the growth of our combined capabilities. That’s why we offer an in-house learning & development program where personal, professional, and business development go hand in hand, helping you carve out your own unique career path. You’ll be based at our Amsterdam office. While we embrace a flexible approach to work, our policy requires working from the office three days a week. To support this, we provide a state-of-the-art technology package to keep you connected at all times.

What you’ll do

• Build together with the Senior Portfolio Analyst and Country director the portfolio strategy and the annual business plan and manage the progress of it through the year.
• Provide analytical support to the Country Director and Asset Management team on portfolio performance, investment analyses, development scenarios, due diligence, and new opportunities. Explaining country performance such as variance to budget on operational KPI’s, NOI and net Cashflow including forecasting
• Assist (coordination with the local and central teams) on refinancing exercise, valuation, preparation of power point presentations to Investment Committee (acquisitions, disposals, leasing, capex, write-offs, and other strategic topics)
• Perform in-depth asset- and portfolio-level analysis (leasing, capex, NOI, etc.) and prepare high-quality reporting on past, current and projected performance.
• Develop a strong commercial understanding of the assets and the market.
• Provide integral support in the hold/sell analysis of individual assets
• Collaborate with the central Portfolio & Financial Management team in Amsterdam, providing country-specific data for regular and ad-hoc reporting.
• Support asset hold/sell analyses, collaborate on business plans and annual budgets.
• Analyze and identify specific asset level risks
• Excel in the systems used to manage and track portfolio performance (Yardi, Excel, Power BI, etc.) and help optimize systems and processes.

What you’ll bring

• Up to three years’ experience in a relevant area, ideally in private equity or asset management, and preferably with a focus on real estate.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to work with large, complex datasets (Excel).
• A strong academic background in a relevant area, for example in Finance, Real Estate or Engineering studies.
• Strong organizational skills, you are able to work on multiple projects at the same time and you don’t miss deadlines.
• Commercial mindset and great communication skills. You understand the numbers and you can explain to others what they mean
• Your ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You’re motivated by short deadlines and can move quickly when timings are tight
• Your strong team attitude. You have a knack for building relationships across all areas within a fast-paced environment
• Your excellent problem-solving skills. You know how to solve problems and have the tenacity to get things done.
• Language skills. You’ll need to be fluent in Dutch and have an excellent command of English.
• Your head for data. You’ll be able to digitize and track new data, and take it all in your stride.

Are you ready to grow your career with the leading last-mile real estate player in Europe?

Our vision is to be the number one gateway to urban communities. To get there, we live our values: Drive, Trust, Grow, Together.