Assistant Manager

at  Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate company offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing, logistics, and life sciences sectors. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates more than $290 billion of real estate in 247 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, manages more than 857,400 units/beds globally, and has a robust institutional investment management platform comprised of more than $76 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Newly opened development of 894 Apartments, Greystar Flagship Site with multiple amenities and 2 swimming pools. The Assistant Manager is responsible for coordinating and delivering the leasing and reservations activities and assisting the Community Manager in the day to day management of this portfolio to achieve budgeted revenue, occupancy priorities, resident retention and leasing goals and objectives.

• Acts as a role model at all times by demonstrating the core values.
• Responsible for viewing activities ensuring that the Property meets the required Company standards, follow up calls are carried out and feedback is received following all viewings.
• Actively participates in the leasing process by generating and monitoring traffic, qualifying prospects, preparing tenancy documentation, and completing move-in/move-out and notice to vacate procedures in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Uses the Company’s property systems to generate sales and leasing reports, monitor unit availability data, log and monitor maintenance requests and record incidents and accidents, ensuring records and documents are accurate and up to date.
• Actively seeks interaction with residents to proactively seek to improve service delivery.
• Promotes resident satisfaction and retention by ensuring a timely response to questions, requests and complaints and taking appropriate action to resolve and address service issues.
• Oversees on-site enquiries, ensuring an appropriate inventory of “ready” apartments, recommending rent pricing and concessions, and monitoring the day-to-day sales and leasing activities.
• Ensures advertising and promotional activities are effectively implemented.
• Develops and maintains local knowledge and information resources relevant to resident needs i.e. travel, entertainment and amenities.
• Stays informed about current market and competitor conditions that may impact the community’s occupancy and results.
• Co-ordinates the tenancy management process by making periodic apartment inspections, evicting residents, and imposing and collecting late fees and other charges within the terms of the agreement. Monitors lease/tenancy agreement terms expirations to control vacancy exposure.
• Monitors payments and chases outstanding rent arrears following rent collection processes to meet business goals whilst promoting tenancy extensions and other revenue streams.
• Works with the maintenance team to ensure the physical aspects of the community meet the Company’s standards for overall appearance and co-ordinates and inspects show flats for market alignment and touring prospective residents.
• Drive engagement and motivate the team to achieve leasing and occupancy targets.
• Leading and developing the capability of Team Members in order to meet key performance goals and future succession requirements, coordinating with Learning & Development to ensure training is provided and addresses performance if required.
• Assists the Community Manager with ensuring on-site team’s understanding of applicable statutory UK tenancy legislation, Health and Safety compliance and Company’s policies and procedures.
• Promotes investor satisfaction and retention through timely reporting about the performance of the properties, and responds quickly and with urgency to client/owner concerns, questions, issues, and requests.
• Reviews and analyses financial and other operational reports to identify and resolve issues impacting leasing performance, and accesses the Company’s internal resources as needed to support solutions.
• Identify and implement opportunities for generating revenue streams and maximise efficiency of utilities.
• Acts up covering the Community Manager responsibilities’ in his or her absence, ensuring work is organised and executed in line with Greystar expectations.
• Participates where required in an on call roster to provide out of hours emergency support for the Community.
• Ensures the operation of the Community complies with Company policies and procedures and any laws and regulations governing housing operations and residential lettings.