Career Profiles

• Project Development

• Project Development is the main driving force behind the different projects of Ayala Land. The Project Development team serves as the general managers of the ALI projects in the residential, malls, offices and land bank businesses.

  What do they do?

  They ensure marketability and profitability of assigned projects through excellent conceptualization, planning, implementation and delivery.

  What do they need to know?

  • A thorough understanding of their customers and market
  • Sales and marketing strategies to meet the needs of the customers
  • Financial tools and techniques to determine money needs, evaluate financial performance, and analyze potential value of investments
  • Basic understanding of construction, design and planning and how they relate to the business

  What does it take to be a part of the Project Development Group?

  • A high level of analytical, creative and problem-solving skills
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Proficiency with numbers and computations
  • Organizational and project management skills
  • Leadership and relationship management
  • Self-motivation, willingness to learn, and ability to handle stress and long work hours
• Construction Management

• The Construction Management team ensures that designs are transformed into structures that are consistent with construction standards through skilful engineering and project management.

  What do they do?

  They manage project operations such as providing technical inputs during the different stages of the project, resolving design and construction issues and monitoring construction projects in terms of cost, time and quality

  • Cost control
  • Quality Assurance
  • Contract Management

  What Do They Need To Know?

  • Construction Management Standards
  • Project Management
  • ALI business model and brand architecture
  • Engineering and technology
  • Laws, policies and procedures relevant to construction and business operations
  • Supplier selection and contract management

  What does it take to be a part of the Construction Management Group?

  • Technical mastery
  • Project management
  • Ability to work well with a team
  • Leadership skills
  • Resourcefulness
  • Proactive disposition
• Architecture

• Architects are the creative force behind the innovative designs of Ayala Land projects. They are tasked to manage the design aspects of projects, ensuring that they meet customer requirements and brand specifications

  What do they do?

  Planning and design of Ayala Land products - They apply crucial concepts, principles, tools and techniques in designing Ayala Land brands (Engineering and Technology, Site Analysis, Design and Creativity)

  What do they need to know?

  • Customer expectations and brand specifications
  • Planning and design concepts, principles and techniques
  • Supplier selection and performance management
  • Project management
  • Laws and public policies relevant to planning and design

  What does it take to be an architect in Ayala Land?

  • Strong technical mastery and project management skills
  • Creativity and innovation
  • An ability to work in a high-energy collaborative environment
  • Excellent visual communication skills in both written and verbal form
• Finance

• Finance enables the company to effectively balance performance improvement, risks and controls.

  What do they do?

  • Finance practitioners in Ayala Land can either be in a corporate role or assigned specifically to a strategic business unit (SBU). The Corporate Finance Group includes the Accounting, Audit & Systems, Control & Analysis, Investor Relations and Treasury departments. Accounting is generally tasked to perform the systematic recording, reporting, and analysis of financial transactions of business activities.
  • The Audit and Systems group is generally tasked to systematically examine records, financial statements as well as processes and procedures to verify their legality, accuracy and correctness according to laws, regulations and standards.
  • Control and Analysis is generally tasked to analyze and report on the financial performance of SBUs and projects to provide a basis for management decisions on control of financial and operating activities. Investor Relations acts as an information and communication interface between the company's management and analysts and investors. Treasury is tasked to manage monetary assets and liabilities, financial risks and banking relationships of the company. Each business line of Ayala Land has its own finance team that is generally tasked to perform accounting and control and analysis functions for the business unit. The finance team also ensures that the SBU complies with the reporting requirements of the ALI Corporate Finance Group.

  What do they need to know?

  • Understanding of ALI business and projects
  • Financial tools and techniques
  • Risk management
  • Specific technical competencies based on assignment (ex. auditing, treasury, etc.)
  • Reportorial (government and corporate) requirements

  What does it take to be a part of the Finance Group?

  • Capability to work with quantitative information
  • Analytical skills and bias for facts
  • Good written and oral communication as well as presentation skills
  • Ability to exercise discretion in withholding and disclosing financial information
  • High level of integrity
• Sales and Marketing

• The Marketing group are the specialists in image building and promotion of the Ayala Land brands and products. The job essentially involves communication and persuasion. It is also about identifying a relevant competitive advantage and finding a way to communicate the brand's advantage in a way that will make consumers sit up, take notice and then feel compelled to act upon what that message is telling them. The Sales job is to meet people to understand their needs, and help them realize that their needs will be answered (or their business will flourish) if they buy Ayala Land products & services

  What Do They Do?

  • Marketing
    • Market Research
    • Brand/Product Management
    • Marketing Communication and Services
  • Sales
    • Prospecting
    • Probing / profiling
    • Presenting to clients
    • Closing
    • Servicing

  What do they need to know?

  • ALI's products and services and their corresponding market and customer
  • Marketing and sales management
  • Account management

  What does it take to be a part of the Corporate Marketing and Sales Group?

  • Leadership skills
  • Creativity, Resourcefulness and Insight
  • Resilience and determination
  • Extrovert characteristics
  • Good communication skills
  • Confidence
• Malls and Office Leasing

• Leasing is responsible for the marketing and leasing of commercial, office or retail spaces and the management of tenant/ merchant accounts to ensure that all their concerns are sufficiently addressed.

  What do they do?

  • Lease of mall space or office space
  • Manage the locators / merchants of assigned commercial buildings or malls
  • Oversee building / mall operations

  What do they need to know?

  • Thorough understanding of customers and market needs
  • Account management
  • Lease contract
  • Financial management

  What Does It Take To Be A Part Of The Leasing Group in Ayala Land?

  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Service orientation
  • Negotiation skills
  • Self-motivation and diligence
  • Leadership skills