Job description

The Director, Branded Residential Portfolio Management is responsible for portfolio-level governance, planning, and setup of branded residential components across Kerzner’s global Private Homes and Branded Residences development pipeline, focusing on the pre-opening residential lifecycle from early pre-development and planning through to opening, ensuring structured management and coordination with internal and external stakeholders, and guaranteeing branded residential projects are consistently defined, correctly configured, brand-aligned, and operationally ready for structured handover to OpCo at opening. The role acts as the residential portfolio authority by establishing and managing residential project stage gates, defining residential requirements and standards, validating outcomes at key milestones, and ensuring quality, consistency, and readiness across multiple residential developments globally. The position includes establishing portfolio-wide residential frameworks, standards, setup playbooks, defining residential requirements and performance principles, and setting minimum portfolio requirements covering unit mix and typology principles, residential amenity principles, arrival, circulation, privacy and access requirements, back-of-house and servicing requirements, and residential technology readiness criteria. The role manages Residential Project Stage Gates across deal feasibility, concept confirmation, concept design, schematic design, design development, design and build phase, pre-opening residential readiness, and handover to OpCo, validating compliance, identifying risks, confirming readiness, maintaining records of reviews and approvals, and presenting stage gate readiness. The position provides residential subject-matter expertise during pre-development and planning phases including brand alignment, feasibility assumptions, unit mix strategy, typologies, sizing logic, amenity positioning, operational and governance implications, defining early residential product principles, and mitigating risks related to residential liveability, owner experience, long-term asset value, operational viability, and handover readiness. The role provides structured residential input to design and project teams, reviewing layouts, adjacencies, circulation, and functional planning, ensuring residential requirements are integrated into design processes, monitoring design evolution, and maintaining non-authoring collaboration with design consultants. The role ensures brand compliance and residential product integrity by reviewing finishes intent, amenity positioning, privacy, acoustics, spatial separation, monitoring deviations, and documenting lessons learned. The position defines the Residential Operating Model and develops structured Residential Operating Plans (ROP), validating back-of-house layouts, access, storage, plant capacity, service flows, residential technology capabilities, operational readiness, risk mitigation, and packaging and transitioning operating models to OpCo. The role coordinates pre-opening and handover activities, including TCO and OC completion, asset and warranty register frameworks, handover checklists, owner move-in readiness, and transition to operations teams and Director of Residence. The position maintains portfolio reporting, stakeholder coordination across Design, Projects, Construction, Business Development, Property Management, and OpCo, and supports leadership decision-making with evidence-based residential insights. The role excludes responsibility for rental programs, leasing, day-to-day operations, HOA governance, and design authorship. The role requires strong experience in luxury mixed-use developments, branded residences, hospitality-led residential platforms, cross-functional coordination, Microsoft Office proficiency, advanced Excel capability, international travel readiness, English fluency, and portfolio-level project oversight across multiple geographies.