Acquisitions Manager

ABOUT INVESTORKIT
InvestorKit is a premier buyers agency in Australia, renowned for its data-driven approach and high-performance culture. We specialise in helping clients achieve their financial goals through strategic property investments backed by comprehensive market analysis and insights. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional results and exceeding client expectations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and industry expertise.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Acquisitions Manager is responsible for leading a high-performing team of Senior Property Acquisitions Analysts (SPAAs) to deliver outstanding client outcomes, consistent purchase volumes, and strong negotiation standards. Sitting between tactical execution and strategic leadership, this role blends people management, acquisition expertise, and cross-functional coordination. You’ll be accountable for team development, acquisition output, and elevating standards of due diligence, negotiation, and agent relationship building across your state. This is a delivery-oriented role requiring deep property investment knowledge, structured management systems, and coaching ability. The role reports to the Head of Acquisitions and plays a pivotal part in fulfilling our commitments to our clients, our staff, and our organisation.

Role Title: Acquisitions Manager

Reporting To: Head of Acquisitions

Direct Reports: 7 x Senior Property Acquisitions Analysts (SPAA)

Location: Remote

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The responsibilities outlined below represent the core expectations of your role. These are subject to review and may evolve over time as the needs of the business grow and change, and we expect you to adapt in step with those shifts. As a leader at InvestorKit, you’re also expected to actively uphold our values, contribute to our mission, and make decisions that support our vision of becoming Australia’s leading buyers agency.

Team Leadership and Performance

• Lead and manage a team of seven SPAAs across your assigned state.
• Conduct weekly 1:1s and monthly performance reviews with each team member.
• Build a high-performance culture through ongoing coaching, mentoring, and accountability frameworks.
• Ensure recruitment, onboarding, and training of new SPAAs are seamless and aligned with company standards.

Purchase Delivery & Execution Oversight

• Ensure state-based purchase targets are consistently met or exceeded.
• Oversee due diligence, valuation, cash flow assessments, and brief alignment checks on all deals presented.
• Intervene in complex negotiations or escalated agent scenarios to drive outcomes.
• Ensure a minimum quality benchmark is met on all acquisitions before proceeding to briefing or settlement.

Process Management and Risk Mitigation

• Uphold and enforce all InvestorKit acquisition systems, frameworks, and quality assurance checkpoints.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, data inconsistencies, and due diligence risks.
• Support national rollouts of process improvement initiatives, system upgrades, or market strategy pivots.

Strategic Collaboration

• Collaborate with the Head of Acquisitions to shape state-level strategies and purchasing tactics.
• Work closely with Strategy and Research teams to ensure alignment between brief setting and acquisitions.
• Maintain agent and developer relationships to support scalable sourcing of pre- and off-market opportunities.

Client Experience and Cross-Team Alignment

• Proactively coordinate with Strategists, Settlement Coordinators, and leadership to support a seamless client journey.
• Ensure client confidence, risk communication, and milestone management remain proactive and transparent.

CONTRIBUTING TO OUR PURPOSE

As a member of the InvestorKit team, you are expected to make decisions and take action in alignment with our Vision; ‘to become the most trusted, data-driven buyers agency for successful business owners and professionals’, and our Mission, which is; ‘To improve our clients’ lives by helping them invest with confidence, outperform the market, and build high-performing property portfolios.’

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

The following Key Performance Indicators apply to your role for the 2025 financial year. These KPIS are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted at the discretion of senior leadership to reflect changes in business needs, performance, market conditions, or divisional capacity.

QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK

These KPIs provide a clear and objective framework for operational performance. They are designed to assess purchasing output, leadership rhythm, process quality, and team contribution to the overall business.

EXPECTATIONS

As a member of our family at InvestorKit we expect you to work towards our vision of becoming Australia's leading buyers agency, making decisions and taking actions that directly align with our mission to positively impact our clients lives by providing an industry leading client experience that helps them realise their aspirations through property.

We work to outcomes at InvestorKit, focussing on achieving tasks and delivering projects that improve the way we work, the lives of our staff and the financial outcomes of business. We believe that accountability, humility, openness and honesty are fundamental values and behaviours that create success, and we expect our people to have a growth mindset and the ambition to not only be the best version of themselves, but the desire to bring that out of others.

Across your time at InvestorKit you will have moments that will test you, but if you can embrace all of the above then we can guarantee that those moments will lead you to your greatest successes.

Let’s lead the way together and build something truly special.

Stephen Bambury
Head of Acquisitions