Prologis, Inc

VP, Investment Officer – Data Centers (Central/East)

Prologis, Inc • $206K — $283K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of commercial real estate acquisition and development experience, specifically in industrial and complex projects, with a preference for data center development.
  • Experience in acquisitions, entitlements, rezoning processes, project management, leasing, and development is preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in sponsoring and executing data center or industrial acquisitions with a strong value creation history.
  • Proficient in underwriting acquisition deals, focusing on value-add opportunities, including handling environmentally challenged properties.
  • Strong financial modeling skills for acquisitions and development pro forma analysis, alongside in-depth knowledge of construction processes.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with local teams to drive deal flow by identifying new capital deployment opportunities across various types of real estate.
  • Develop and leverage professional relationships to generate business through real estate partners, sellers, brokers, and other key contacts.
  • Identify and present investment opportunities to senior leadership and committees to support strategic decisions.
  • Monitor and analyze market trends to maximize returns and identify innovative investment strategies for Prologis.
  • Gain comprehensive knowledge of company assets, strategies, and processes to inform investment decisions.
  • Co-manage entitlement and zoning projects, ensuring compliance with local regulations and effective site plan design.
  • Execute on high-profile development projects while identifying Build-to-Suit (BTS) opportunities for the Data Center team.

Benefits

  • Access to professional growth and development opportunities.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional team engagement.
  • 20-40% travel opportunities for networking and relationship building.
  • Participation in high-impact and strategic investment decision-making.
Full Job Description

Job Title:

VP, Investment Officer – Data Centers (Central/East)

Company:

Prologis

A day in the life

As a VP, Investment Officer – Data Centers, you can expect to handle all capital deployment activities including acquisitions, redevelopment and development of data center and industrial product. You will play a key role in driving investment strategy, activity and growth in the marketplace for Prologis. Our investment officers are critical to the ongoing future growth of our business. Having a background in setting an investment strategy and leading the origination, underwriting and execution of data center and industrial property acquisitions and developments is critical for success on day one.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Partner with local Investment Officers, Project Managers, Market Officers and Leasing teams to drive deal flow by directly identifying new capital deployment opportunities (includes green-field land acquisition and development, value-add redevelopments, portfolio and single asset acquisitions of data center and industrial buildings and support M&A and entity investments).
  • Leverage existing professional relationships and develop new strategic contacts to generate business opportunities with potential real estate partners, private sellers, brokers, investment bankers, owners, developers, consultants and high net-worth individuals.
  • Identify and present new investment opportunities to Senior Leadership as well as Prologis Investment Committee.
  • Ability to identify, anticipate, communicate and capitalize on market trends to bring industry leading returns to Prologis.
  • Develop comprehensive knowledge of all of the company’s assets, strategy, processes and systems.
  • Co-Pilot on select heavy entitlement and zoning projects focused on site plan design, entitlement and land use within local municipalities.
  • Execute on existing high-profile entitlement and development projects within the current buildings, land bank and new pursuits.
  • Surface BTS opportunities for Prologis’ Data Center team.

Building blocks for success:

Required:

  • A minimum 10 year track record of acquiring and developing commercial real estate with a focus on industrial and complex projects. Data center development experience preferred.
  • Travel expectation 20-40%.

Preferred:

  • Broad industry experience in acquisitions, entitlements and rezoning process, project management, leasing and development.
  • Proven track record of sponsoring data center and/or industrial acquisitions and taking them from cradle to grave with a solid performance history of value creation.
  • Strong background in underwriting acquisitions deals including value add opportunities; experience working with environmentally challenged properties is an asset.
  • In depth understanding of financial acquisition and development pro forma modeling, general construction process and pricing, redevelopment and entitlement processing.
  • Background in negotiating PSAs, leases, development agreements and reporting on project performance.

Hiring Salary Range of: $206,400 - $283,800. Salary and whole compensation package (bonus target & LTI) to be determined by the candidate’s location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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Employment Type:

Full time

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Additional Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Columbia, Maryland, Sterling Office

About Prologis, Inc

Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in logistics real estate. The company is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. Prologis leases modern distribution facilities to a diverse base of approximately 5,500 customers across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.
Learn more about Prologis, Inc
Size
2,053 employees
Market Cap
$104.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+13.4%
Revenue
$4.4 billion
NASDAQ

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