2025 DWS P.A.C.E. Graduate Program - Real Estate Investment

About DWS  

 At DWS, we’re capturing the opportunities of tomorrow. You can be part of a leading, client-committed, global Asset Manager, making an impact on individuals, communities, and the world. Today, markets still face a whole new set of pressures – but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change. This is needed more than ever as we currently experience high interest rates, a once-in-a-lifetime health crisis, a shift in global demographics – and politics – as well as advances in digitalization and economies moving towards a more sustainable future.  
  
While there is always uncertainty in markets, one thing remains clear: there is always a new situation that requires the right investment answers. We call it the new now.    

About the DWS P.A.C.E. Program 

Our 2-year P.A.C.E. program consists of a technical training period and is followed by four six-month rotations within your assigned division, where you will have the opportunity to implement your technical training in a practical setting with expert guidance.   

About the Real Estate Team 

With a platform and approach to real estate investing developed over 45 years, DWS real estate is ranked among the world’s largest real estate managers. Our mission is to deliver superior long-term, risk-adjusted returns, yield-generating opportunities, preservation of capital, and diversification. We seek competitive, sustainable returns through a disciplined investment process and take a rigorous life cycle approach to identify, implement and monitor investment themes and tactics.  

The real estate team in the UK is an integrated part of the global real estate division. With portfolio and asset management, transactions, sustainability, finance, product, and research, the UK hub operates across all functions of the real estate division, forming one of the main pillars of the real estate business. 

As a Real Estate P.A.C.E. Graduate you will:   

• Experience multiple real estate functions including portfolio management, asset management, transactions, and research. 
• Supporting the transaction team to appraise key market dynamics in the underwriting of live real estate transactions. 
• Analyse major real estate topics to support the formulation of investment strategy, respond to market events and support client requests. 
• Facilitate the asset management team in their engagement with current and future real estate occupiers, and day to day operations of real estate assets. 
• Supporting the real estate team with the production of internal and external stakeholder documentation and analysis. 

What we are looking for:  

• Proactive, Agile, Curious and Entrepreneurial Graduates 
• Must have graduated or be on track to graduate from a bachelor’s or master’s degree in either 2024 or 2025. 
• Must possess less than 12 months of full-time, relevant work experience (excluding internships). 
• Must be available to start full-time work on the 1st September 2025. 
• A keen interest in the real estate industry and global real estate trends. 
• An understanding of significant macroeconomic and capital market drivers of real estate. 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Statistical modelling experience would be beneficial but not essential. 
• An ability to work independently and within a team across multiple real estate functions. 

Our Application Process:

• Online application 
• Online tests 
• Video interview 
• Assessment Center