Associate / Vice President - Investments

Firm Overview

Pivotal Manufacturing Partners ("Pivotal") is a real estate investment platform built to support the rapidly growing reshoring trend in U.S. advanced manufacturing. Our focus is to invest directly at the intersection of infrastructure and real estate—acquiring, developing, and managing large-scale industrial properties with the advanced specifications needed to support next-generation manufacturing processes. By targeting industries critical to U.S. supply chain security—including semiconductors, energy, biomanufacturing, aerospace and defense, critical minerals, and digital infrastructure—Pivotal provides a much-needed real estate solution to the acute shortage of suitable manufacturing real estate in the United States.

Pivotal is backed by a family office with more than $100 billion of direct investment experience and a broad network of investments across some of the world's most transformative real estate, industrial, and manufacturing businesses. The firm's capital base combines an institutional investment approach with a long-term perspective, allowing it to act decisively, generate compelling risk-adjusted returns for its partners, and invest in assets that support high-value job creation and broader national security interests.

Pivotal's existing portfolio and active pipeline represent more than $1 billion of existing and planned investments across acquisitions, build-to-suit developments, repositioning opportunities, and sale-leaseback transactions. The existing portfolio includes the largest fusion energy campus in the United States, a former-nuclear plant turned data center/advanced manufacturing campus, as well as semiconductor, energy, defense, and critical mineral supply chain assets.

The Role

Pivotal is seeking a highly motivated Associate to join its investment team in New York. This role offers the opportunity to work directly alongside senior investment professionals across every stage of the investment lifecycle—from underwriting and due diligence through transaction execution, financing, and asset management.

The successful candidate will assume meaningful responsibility from day one while gaining broad exposure across acquisitions, development, capital markets, and portfolio management within a lean, entrepreneurial investment platform focused on shaping the future of advanced manufacturing real estate.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Build and maintain sophisticated financial models for acquisition and development opportunities
2. Perform investment underwriting to evaluate project returns, financing structures, sensitivities, and investment scenarios
3. Conduct market research and industry analysis to support investment decisions
4. Prepare investment memoranda, presentations, and supporting materials for internal and external stakeholders
5. Support all phases of due diligence, including financial, legal, technical, environmental, operational, and market review
6. Assist with transaction execution, including purchase agreements, financing, closing activities, and coordination with counterparties
7. Support debt financing processes, lender presentations, and capital markets initiatives
8. Assist with development and redevelopment activities across the portfolio
9. Coordinate with brokers, lenders, attorneys, consultants, engineers, and operating partners throughout the investment process
10. Monitor portfolio performance, business plans, leasing activity, capital projects, and asset-level financial performance
11. Help identify opportunities to leverage AI and emerging technologies to enhance investment research, underwriting, market intelligence, and team productivity

Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Real Estate, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field
2. 2–8 years of experience in real estate private equity, real estate brokerage, investment banking, or a related role
3. Experience underwriting industrial real estate is preferred. Exposure to advanced manufacturing, data centers, life sciences, or powered infrastructure is a plus
4. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
5. Strong financial modeling, valuation, and analytical skills
6. Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with exceptional attention to detail
7. Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
8. Self-motivated, intellectually curious, with sound judgment and a desire to assume meaningful responsibility in an entrepreneurial setting
9. Demonstrates the highest standards of integrity, character, professionalism, and personal accountability
10. Experience with Argus Enterprise is preferred
11. Willingness to travel as needed

Compensation & Benefits

Pivotal offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to play a meaningful role in building a leading investment platform focused on advanced manufacturing real estate.