Head — Special Situations & Distressed Assets | Vantrock Real Assets Private Limited | Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Not a recovery seat and not a credit desk. The best-priced industrial land in India is not on the market. It is in a bank's stressed book, in an asset reconstruction company's portfolio, or in front of a tribunal, waiting for somebody who knows how to get it out. One seat, for the person who does that end to end, on the founder's own balance sheet.

ABOUT VANTROCK

Vantrock is an independent real assets platform. Real assets only. We start where we know the ground: logistics, warehousing and industrial parks, across the full chain, from first mile and last mile to city-centre, dark-store and self-storage formats. From there, only as each is delivered: industrial plots, suburban campuses and GCC space, strata offices, data centres and senior living.

Two decades on this ground and a gap institutional capital left open below the 100-acre logistics park. The first phase is 10-to-50-acre parcels in Maharashtra, NCR and Karnataka, taken through approvals quickly on the founder's own capital, shovel-ready before an investor is asked to commit. Pipeline 10 million sq ft, and ground breaks on the first 2 million sq ft in January 2027.

Three parts, kept deliberately separate. The founder's own balance sheet takes the first risk.

Vantrock Real Assets Private

Limited, the employer for this seat, is the development manager and operator, with its own board, team and governance: it originates, builds, revives and runs.

Vantrock Investment

Managers LLP is the investment manager, underwriting every asset independently for an independent Investment Committee. Assets enter a strategy at cost, with no founder premium, and the platform earns only after its investors have.

Vantrock was founded by Anshul Singhal, Founder & CEO, who has built three institutional platforms from zero and is building the fourth on his own capital. 52 million sq ft delivered (32 million as developer, 20 million as contractor), over 2,000 acres acquired, all litigation-free, more than 200 buildings, and India's largest industrial real estate exit. Delivered across the founder's three prior platforms. We don't hire roles. We build the platform.

THE SEAT The seat sits in the Land & Investments team, which originates, underwrites, structures and closes the transactions the pipeline is built from. Special situations is its own line of supply inside that team.

Reports to: Founder & CEO.

Direct reports: none, by design.

Experience: 12–20 years, the greater part of it in special situations, stressed assets or distressed real-asset acquisition.

Location: Mumbai Metropolitan Region, in person, with substantial travel to sites, revenue and sub-registrar offices, tribunals and NCLT benches wherever an asset sits. Expect to be out of Mumbai most weeks, and a valuable deal of it alone. Beyond the deals, be a named voice of the platform on distressed real assets, at the forums and on LinkedIn.

Team structure, reporting lines, seat titles and the hiring entity reflect the current plan and may change as the platform builds out. Compensation is confirmed in the offer.

WHAT YOU WILL BE BUYING, AND WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Physical real assets, at a price the open market cannot offer, out of situations it will not touch. Land, part-built projects, industrial estates, warehouses and sheds held against non-performing loans,



portfolios sold on by asset reconstruction companies, assets enforced under SARFAESI or sold through insolvency, and one-time settlements negotiated with a lender and a borrower. Warehousing, logistics and industrial land is the core.

We are not buying paper for a spread, and we are not building a recovery business.

Every asset the platform owns was bought in the open market, off a relationship, at a negotiated price. That channel works and it is not going away. It cannot be widened by adding distressed situations to a deal lead's week, because the sourcing runs on different relationships and the execution runs on statute and dates.

So this is one seat for one person who has done it before. It is a builder's seat rather than a steward's, and it is deliberately one person. Not a recovery or collections seat, because the unit of work is an asset bought and made buildable rather than a borrower payment collected.

Not an intermediary role either: situations introduced do not count, situations closed do. If your record is accounts handled, notices issued or introductions made, this is not your seat.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

- Own the channel. The relationships that produce proprietary deal flow: stressed asset groups at the banks, recovery desks at the NBFCs, asset reconstruction companies, insolvency professionals, valuers and the counsel who see these situations first.
- Own the pipeline. A live, priced book, with the route to control identified for each situation and the ones not worth doing killed early.
- Price the situation, not the property. The asset on the platform's standard, then everything the distress adds: the mortgage chain, the validity of the enforcement, encumbrances, statutory and labour dues, occupancy, approvals and live litigation. Distressed does not mean discounted, and the number on that gap is the job.
- Choose the route and drive it. Counsel executes, and you own the choice and the outcome.
- Take the Investment Committee with you, with a number on the litigation and possession risk rather than a caveat around it.
- Get to possession, clean title and an asset the development team can build on, then stay with what you buy as its Asset Sponsor, for the life of the thesis.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

– 12–20 years in real assets, real estate credit or stressed assets, with the greater part of it spent acquiring, resolving or monetising physical assets out of distress.

– A record you can put on paper: the assets you bought or resolved, who was selling and in which forum, the route, the value in crore, the date the order or sale certificate came through, and your own part in each.

– Working command of the process rather than a reading knowledge of it: SARFAESI enforcement and auction, the debt recovery tribunals, the insolvency code as it stands after the 2026 amendments, one-time settlements, assignment of debt and security receipts, and where each route fails.

– Live relationships you can name, in confidence, across bank stressed asset groups,



NBFC recovery desks and asset reconstruction companies, that produced a deal you closed.

– Title and encumbrance judgment on distressed collateral: the mortgage chain, competing creditors, statutory dues and occupancy, and the habit of working alone. Based in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, or relocating before joining.

COMPENSATION

Vantrock benchmarks compensation against the upper quartile for the role and market, weighted toward equity for candidates who want to build with us long-term. We discuss specific numbers in the first conversation rather than anchoring either side prematurely. Wealth creation is part of the engine, not only the salary: performance-linked bonuses and ESOP-linked incentives.

CULTURAL FIT

We're building Vantrock over a decade, not a funding cycle. We're looking for people who treat technology as the default answer rather than a supplement, who want to be co-builders of the platform rather than employees executing instructions, and who are comfortable saying "I don't know" and "I was wrong." If you want a defined role with defined edges, this isn't the right seat. If you want to help build an institution from zero, it might be.

AI proficiency and partner command are standing requirements in every Vantrock seat. You work fluently with AI tools and build on the platform's dashboards, and you command the partners who execute the transactional work. A supervised AI Proficiency Test is part of the process at every level. A seat can be solitary in its work and still be a place to belong.

HOW YOU WILL WORK

Bad news travels first, because a risk raised early is a price negotiation and the same risk raised late is a loss. This channel will put you in rooms where an irregular payment is offered, sometimes by people who will tell you it is how the district works. Everything is paid on the agreement, everything is recorded, and anything irregular is escalated the same day, including when it costs the deal.

HOW WE WILL ASSESS

One email within two working days of applying, with two links. Six fixed questions answered by AI interview, about forty minutes, the first work sample, read before the CV. And the Vantrock AI Proficiency Test.

Then the Situation Sheet conversation, a 90-minute case on a distressed industrial asset where you choose the route, price it and name the three things that would kill it, case defence with the Founder & CEO, and references. Your application is seen only by the Founder's Office and the hiring lead.

TO APPLY

Write to [email protected], subject line "Head — Special Situations & Distressed Assets — [your name]", and attach:

– Your CV. This is mandatory. A LinkedIn profile alone is not an application, though we will read your LinkedIn too.

– Your Situation Sheet. One row per closed situation: asset and location, who was selling, the route, the value in crore, the year, whether possession was obtained, and your role.

– Your notice period and what you would need to see to move.

– One short paragraph. Name a distressed industrial or land situation in India that you believe was mispriced, and say what you would have paid and why. That paragraph matters more than the CV.

None of this will suit everyone, and it is not meant to. If it is your seat, write to us.

We don't hire roles. We build the platform. · Ownership, not employment. · Builders hire builders.

Founder & CEO, Vantrock

📌 Head- Special Situations & Distressed Assets (Mumbai)
🏢 Vantrock
📍 Mumbai