Acquisitions Manager

Altus Equity Group is a mid-market real estate private equity firm with big ambitions for its future. We are building an enduring alternative investment platform, not simply chasing the next deal. Our investment culture is disciplined, entrepreneurial, long-term oriented, and rooted in intellectual honesty, investor trust, alignment, and ownership thinking. All while being aggressive in chasing opportunity.

The Acquisitions Manager owns the operating rhythm and results of our acquisitions function: sourcing, screening, underwriting, negotiating, and advancing opportunities from first review through signed purchase agreement and debt term sheet. This leadership role combines relationship-driven sourcing with rigorous underwriting, clear communication, disciplined judgment, and accountability for the acquisitions function.

This is a newly created role with immediate responsibility. A senior investment team member is moving into a production-focused position centered on sourcing, investor relationships, and mentoring rather than day-to-day department leadership. You will step into that leadership role with direct access to the CEO and senior leadership, and a clear path for growth as Altus expands. The right candidate leads with confidence, learns with humility, possesses an entrepreneurial mindset, and builds repeatable processes that produce disciplined, actionable opportunities.

There are no limits to where this role could lead.

Source and secure opportunities

• Identify and cultivate investment opportunities that fit Altus’s strategy, return requirements, risk tolerance, and reputation standards.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with brokers, owners, operators, lenders, partners, developers, and other market participants, treating people consistently with Altus’s core values.
• Maintain an active, prioritized pipeline and drive opportunities from identification through internal approval, offer, negotiation, PSA execution, and debt term sheet.
• Create and maintain a consistent sourcing cadence, follow‑up discipline, and pipeline reporting system.
• Collaborate and negotiate with brokers, sellers, and even lenders to secure opportunities with outsized risk adjusted returns. Creativity, understanding of risk, and a deep familiarity of liens/title structure is a must.

• Lead financial modeling, market research, rent and expense assumptions, capex assumptions, debt sizing, exit strategy, downside analysis, and investor return analysis.
• Pressure‑test assumptions rather than simply populate models; surface risks plainly; and never use optimistic upside to excuse weak fundamentals.
• Produce clear, accurate, decision‑useful investment materials for internal approval, lender discussions, and investor‑facing support.
• Coordinate early with Asset Management to test operating assumptions, construction scope, lease‑up plans, execution risk, and overall business‑plan feasibility.
• Translate underwriting into a concise recommendation: why this opportunity, why now, what could go wrong, and what must be true for Altus to win.

• Set clear priorities, cadence, and accountability for the acquisitions function, utilizing the firm’s implemented Elite Execution System (EES)
• Create a culture of disciplined urgency: fast enough to win good opportunities, patient enough to avoid bad ones.
• Develop analysts and interns into stronger underwriters, researchers, relationship‑builders, and investment thinkers.
• Communicate clearly and proactively with the CEO, Asset Management, Investor Relations, Capital Markets, Finance, and fellow team leaders.
• Improve the acquisition process itself: templates, screening standards, model discipline, IC materials, market files, and postmortems on wins and losses.
• Love to learn, search for the discomfort of aggressive personal growth.

• Help identify markets, asset classes, capital structures, and investment themes that fit Altus’s long‑term objectives.
• Bring informed recommendations to leadership, grounded in research, pipeline activity, lender feedback, operating realities, and market participant…