Associate, Real Estate Portfolio Management

Role:
Portfolio Management Associate, Bain Capital Real Estate

Location:

Boston, MA

The Portfolio Management (PM) team is responsible for driving value, managing risk, and shaping fund performance across Bain Capital Real Estate’s portfolios. This role works closely with PM leadership to implement tools, processes, and insights that enhance decision-making and fund returns. The hire will play an essential role in liquidity planning, performance monitoring, roll-forward underwriting cycles, business-plan tracking, and cross-functional coordination with Investment, Asset Management, and Finance teams.

• Support PM leads in identifying risks, opportunities, and drivers of fund performances.
• Help synthesize insights on return drivers, concentration, underperformance risks, and high-impact opportunities.

• Help build and maintain tools that track liquidity, equity needs, reserves, refinancing risk, and deal-level convexity.
• Apply data analytics and programming experience (Python, SQL preferred) to enhance tooling, automate processes, and extract insights from large, complex datasets.
• Assist in developing monitoring tools for performance vs. underwriting and roll-forward projections.
• Maintain and enhance the PM reporting package to deliver clear, actionable insights.
• Contribute to ongoing return-enhancement projects (e.g., recycling, subline utilization, gross-to-net improvement).

• Support implementation of consistent processes across Investment, Asset Management, and Finance (e.g., hold/sell, budgets, valuations, roll-forwards, capital calls).
• Help drive standardization across strategies—particularly around sale processes and hold/sell frameworks.
• Maintain watchlists and assist with follow-ups for high-impact or high-risk assets/JVs.
• Track business-plan milestones, JV updates, debt/refi activity, and sale readiness.

• Play a key operational and analytical role in the semiannual roll-forward process.
• Help coordinate cross-team inputs, manage timelines, and ensure consistency of assumptions and outputs.
• Contribute to iterative improvements that enhance efficiency, comparability and insights each cycle.

• Support reporting on fund composition, exposures, asset concentration, and relative risk/return.
• Assist in preparing portfolio reviews and Partner updates with clear perspectives on performance, risks, and liquidity.
• Help refine the PM frameworks, tools, and processes as the portfolio and team evolve.

• 2-4 years in consulting, investment banking, private equity, or real-estate investing.
• Real-estate experience preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and drive processes without a roadmap.

• Strong financial and quantitative skills.
• High proficiency in Excel; ability to build and iterate analytical tools and dashboards.
• Programming/data analytics experience preferred (Python, R, Java, SQL, Claude Code, other LLMs).
• Comfort synthesizing large, ambiguous data sets into clear insights.

• Tenacious, proactive, high ownership mentality.
• Structured thinker who can bring clarity to ambiguity.
• Strong communicator able to distill analysis into crisp recommendations.
• Effective collaborator across Investment, Asset Management, Finance, and senior leadership.

$125,000 - $150,000.

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