# General Manager - Athens

> Square One · Athens, Greece · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-27

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Operations

## Description

### About Square One

Square One is a Limassol-based residential developer founded in 2021. In under five years the company has achieved over €150M in sales, grown to 35 people and currently has 10+ active schemes across Cyprus. The group is vertically integrating across design, procurement, construction and operations, and its sister company MovingDoors operates 500+ serviced apartments in Cyprus and Dubai at c. 97% occupancy.

Athens is the group's first international development market. This is a founding role.

### The Mandate

Build Square One Athens from a standing start into a self-sustaining regional development business, and own its P&L. This is an owner-operator role with real equity participation — not a corporate country-manager position. The successful candidate will source the first deals personally, hire the team behind them, and carry the commercial result.

### Key Responsibilities

### Phase 1 — Establish (Months 0–6)

-   Set up the Athens office: entity, premises, banking, systems and the professional network (lawyers, notaries, civil engineers, architects, surveyors, contractors).
-   Build the acquisition pipeline: source, screen and negotiate land and antiparochi opportunities in target Attica submarkets.
-   Underwrite every opportunity in Square One's development appraisal format and present to the group investment committee.
-   Close the first one to two acquisitions.
-   Map the local cost base, contractor market, permitting timelines and sales comparables, and feed these into the group modelling standards.

### Phase 2 — Scale (Months 6–24)

-   Recruit, onboard and lead a Sales & Business Development Manager.
-   Build out the wider local team across acquisitions, project management and sales.
-   Drive the first schemes through permitting and onto site, working with the group technical function.
-   Establish sales channels: direct, brokerage, international investor networks and Golden Visa intermediaries.
-   Deliver against agreed GDV, unit volume, margin and cash targets.

### Ongoing

-   P&L ownership — revenue, gross margin, overhead, cash flow and returns for the Athens business.
-   Capital — work with the group on debt financing, JV equity and investor relations for Athens schemes.
-   Governance — permitting, tax, employment and regulatory compliance in Greece.
-   Brand — represent Square One in the Athens market with landowners, agents, banks, investors and buyers.

### What Success Looks Like

By month 12: office established and operating; two acquisitions closed and underwritten to group standard; Sales & BD Manager hired and productive; first scheme through permitting or in advanced application.

By month 24: a live pipeline of three to five schemes; first units sold; Athens P&L covering its own overhead; a functioning local team and a repeatable sourcing engine.

## Requirements

### Essential

-   8–12+ years in Greek residential development, real estate investment or construction, with direct P&L or project-level financial accountability.
-   An active land and antiparochi sourcing network in Attica. This is the single most important criterion — deal flow is the job.
-   Fluent in development appraisal and financial modelling; comfortable being challenged line by line on assumptions.
-   Demonstrable track record taking residential schemes from acquisition through permitting, construction and sale.
-   Working command of the Greek planning, construction and tax framework.
-   Native or fluent Greek plus business-level English.
-   Willing and financially able to co-invest personally alongside the group.

### Desirable

-   Experience launching an office, business unit or new market from zero.
-   Existing relationships with Greek banks and alternative lenders.
-   Exposure to Golden Visa and international buyer channels.
-   Track record hiring and managing sales teams.

### Personal

Owner mentality. Comfortable with ambiguity and with building process where none exists. High integrity — the group's reputation in a new market rests on this person. Hands-on rather than delegation-first in the early phase.

## Benefits

-   Base salary to be discussed based on candidate experience (senior position)
-   Annual discretionary bonus tied to agreed milestones
-   Profit share: 10% participation in the net profit of the Athens business, alongside the group's equity return
-   Co-investment: the GM is expected to invest personally into the Athens vehicle on the same terms as group equity.
-   Vesting: profit share subject to vesting, with good-leaver / bad-leaver provisions
-   Corporate benefits
-   Relocation support available if required

All terms indicative and subject to definitive legal documentation.

## Apply

[Apply at Square One](https://apply.workable.com/squareone/j/A92158FEA8/apply)

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