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Development Assessment Manager
Project and Development Services
What this job involves: Opportunity Identification and Lead Qualification
As Development Assessment Manager, you will identify and qualify potential development opportunities across diverse asset classes. You will build a robust pipeline by networking with landowners, developers, brokers, and industry stakeholders, conducting proactive market scanning to uncover off-market opportunities. You will screen opportunities through preliminary site assessments, zoning reviews, highest-and-best-use analysis, and high-level financial feasibility to determine viability and prioritize leads for advancement.
High-Level Financial Assessment
Conduct rapid financial feasibility assessments to qualify opportunities before they advance to detailed studies. Your desktop-level analysis will include preliminary development costs, indicative revenue projections based on market comparables, quick cash flow assessments, and preliminary investment metrics (IRR, development margin, yield on cost). This initial filtering identifies deal-breakers, validates basic economic viability, and determines which opportunities warrant comprehensive feasibility studies by specialized teams.
Market Analysis and Intelligence
Drive market research and competitive intelligence to support opportunity evaluation. Analyze supply-demand dynamics, submarket performance, pricing trends, absorption rates, and emerging opportunities. Synthesize market data into actionable insights through concise market assessments and opportunity briefs that inform lead qualification decisions.
Feasibility and Business Planning Oversight
Once projects are secured, provide strategic oversight and coordination during detailed feasibility and business planning stages executed by consultants and internal teams. Manage the process, coordinate inputs across workstreams (design, technical, financial, legal, regulatory), monitor deliverables,
and facilitate decision-making. Review consultant outputs, identify gaps, coordinate revisions, and synthesize findings into coherent feasibility recommendations and business plans for client approval.
Pipeline and Stakeholder Management
Maintain comprehensive opportunity pipeline tracking from identification through qualification and handoff to execution teams. Build relationships with landowners, partners, government authorities, and stakeholders. Participate in preliminary discussions and provide input on deal structures and acquisition strategies during initial assessment phases.
Core Skillset: Strong financial modeling and Excel proficiency for rapid deal assessments. Understanding of development economics, construction costs, zoning regulations, planning processes, and investment principles. Analytical capabilities, strategic thinking, project coordination skills, and excellent communication.
Detail Oriented
Establish rigorous standards for initial assessments, validate data sources, cross-check assumptions, and ensure accuracy in screening analyses and opportunity briefs.
Research Savvy
Stay current on market trends, regulatory changes, infrastructure developments, and competitive activity. Develop proprietary intelligence and identify leading indicators of opportunity.
Problem Solver
Navigate ambiguity with limited information, structure rapid assessments, identify pathways to resolve deal challenges, and facilitate multi-workstream coordination during feasibility stages.
Sound like you? To apply you need to be: Effective Communicator
Exceptional written and oral communication with ability to translate preliminary analysis into clear opportunity briefs. Strong facilitation skills to coordinate consultant teams during feasibility stages.
Resilient
Entrepreneurial mindset with comfort in ambiguity and ability to make rapid assessments. Manage multiple opportunities simultaneously across different stages while maintaining quality.
Business-Minded
Commercial orientation with understanding of development outcomes and deal economics. Balance rapid assessment with appropriate depth, focusing on factors that impact qualification decisions.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Economics, Business, Urban Planning, Architecture, or Engineering (Master's degree preferred)
8-12 years of experience in real estate development, investment analysis, or opportunity assessment with track record in lead identification and preliminary feasibility
Good financial modeling and Excel proficiency for rapid deal-level assessments
Understanding of development economics, construction costs, entitlement processes, and zoning regulations
Established network of brokers, landowners, developers, and consultants
What we can do for you:
At JLL, we make sure that you become the best version of yourself by helping you realize your full potential in an entrepreneurial and inclusive work workplace. We will empower your ambitions through our dedicated Total Rewards Program, competitive pay and benefits package.
If this resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!
Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:
JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health.
About JLL –
We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.
Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.
Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.
📌 Development Assesment Manager (Development Management) (Bengaluru)
🏢 JLL
📍 Bengaluru