A leading Philippine conglomerate is seeking a senior executive for a President-level business leadership role.
This is a high-impact role for a commercially mature leader with proven experience managing a sizeable business platform, real estate or asset portfolio, complex stakeholder groups, and long-term enterprise value creation.
The successful candidate will be expected to lead a major growth platform, drive business performance, strengthen integration across functions and assets, and contribute to the organization's longer-term executive leadership bench.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall strategy, business performance, operating rhythm, and long-term value creation of the assigned platform.
- Own revenue growth, profitability, capital productivity, cost discipline, governance, and organizational capability.
- Drive integration across business units, functions, assets, partners, and stakeholder groups to ensure the platform operates as a cohesive and scalable enterprise.
- Strengthen portfolio performance through disciplined asset strategy, commercial planning, customer relevance, partner management, and operating execution.
- Lead business planning, investment reviews, performance management, budget discipline, and strategic initiatives aligned with the group's broader growth agenda.
- Manage senior internal and external stakeholders, including shareholders, Board-level stakeholders, executives, investors, partners, tenants, regulators, government counterparts, and other strategic relationships.
- Identify opportunities to improve commercial returns, asset productivity, operating efficiency, customer engagement, and long-term market positioning.
- Build and develop a high-performing leadership team with strong succession depth, clear accountability, and disciplined execution standards.
This role requires a candidate who can operate beyond functional leadership. The successful candidate must demonstrate direct business ownership, enterprise-level judgment, boardroom credibility, commercial discipline, and the ability to manage complexity across multiple stakeholders and asset classes.
Preferred Background
- Real estate development, commercial property, mixed-use estates, townships, malls, offices, hospitality, logistics, industrial assets, or property portfolio management.
- Infrastructure, PPP, investment-backed platforms, or conglomerate environments where stakeholder management, governance, and integration are critical.
- Retail, consumer platforms, FMCG, lifestyle, hospitality, or large-scale service businesses may also be considered if the candidate has strong P&L ownership, multi-site operating exposure, and commercial leadership credentials.
Required Experience
- Significant senior leadership experience with direct business, platform, portfolio, or P&L accountability.
- Proven exposure to real estate, property portfolio management, asset optimization, commercial operations, or adjacent large-scale consumer-facing businesses.
- Strong commercial judgment, including revenue growth, cost discipline, capital allocation, investment review, and long-term value creation.
- Experience leading business integration, transformation, restructuring, expansion, or platform professionalization.
- Demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders, including Boards, shareholders, executives, investors, partners, tenants, regulators, and government counterparties.
- Strong leadership capability with experience building teams, improving organizational capability, and developing future leaders.
- Ability to operate with strategic maturity, execution discipline, institutional credibility, and high integrity.
Highly Advantageous
- Experience managing multi-asset, multi-site, or multi-format business platforms.
- Exposure to estate development, commercial leasing, office, retail, hospitality, logistics, industrial, or mixed-use platforms.
- Experience in joint ventures, PPPs, infrastructure-linked projects, large-scale partnerships, or complex stakeholder environments.
- Track record of improving portfolio returns, increasing NOI, strengthening asset productivity, or driving business turnaround.
- Experience working within a conglomerate, publicly listed company, multinational, or professionally governed institution.
- Potential to form part of a longer-term enterprise leadership succession slate.
Key Success Measures
- Business growth and profitability improvement.
- Stronger portfolio and asset productivity.
- Successful integration across business units, functions, assets, and stakeholders.
- Improved commercial discipline, governance, and operating rhythm.
- High-quality stakeholder management and institutional representation.
- Strengthened leadership team and succession pipeline.
- Clear contribution to long-term enterprise value and leadership bench strength.
Why Join
This is a rare opportunity to step into a President-level platform role within one of the Philippines most respected real estate and property groups.
The mandate offers significant scope to shape a major business platform, influence long-term enterprise value, and work across high-impact assets, partners, and stakeholder groups. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead at scale, drive portfolio performance, strengthen integration across complex business lines, and contribute to the organization's future leadership bench.
This role is suited for a senior executive who wants to move beyond functional leadership and take on a broader enterprise mandate with visibility, accountability, and long-term succession potential.
