Community Manager - FTC (12 Months)

Greystar Worldwide, LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Greystar Worldwide, LLC seeks an experienced Property Operations Manager in Greater London to lead a resident-focused on-site team. You will drive leasing performance, manage budgets, and collaborate with marketing to optimise occupancy and revenue.

The role requires strong leadership, regulatory knowledge, and a focus on safety and service excellence. You will coordinate with investors and internal teams to deliver exceptional resident experiences, while ensuring timely reporting and compliance

Qualifications

• Experience driving leasing performance and managing operations within a property sector or similar.
• Proven leadership experience with ability to recruit, direct and develop a team.
• Knowledge of Landlord/Tenant Legislation and compliance.
• Strong organisation, multi-tasking and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Numerical competence to analyse budgets and statements.
• Experience managing maintenance and vendor partnerships.
• Proactive approach to resident/stakeholder satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Lead the on-site property operations unit to meet budgeted financial and occupancy goals.
• Direct marketing and leasing strategies with data-driven market insights.
• Oversee marketing campaigns, advertising, and local promotions.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders, owners, and external partners.
• Ensure safety, compliance, and regulatory adherence across the community.
• Forecast annual budgets and present variance reporting to investors.
• Monitor payments, revenue, and occupancy performance against targets.
• Coordinate inspections, renewals, and lease enforcement when needed.
• Drive resident satisfaction through timely responses and events.

Skills

Leasing performance

Team leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial reporting

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office

Property management software

Communication skills

Numerical skills

Regulatory knowledge

Education

IOSH or NEBOSH training

Tools

Microsoft Office

Property management software

Job description

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $350 billion of real estate in more than 260 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, managing over one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms, Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets and over $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. 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

You will run an autonomous business unit taking overall responsibility and accountability for the operations including team members, daily activities, and the resources of the property to achieve established budgeted financial and operational goals. Leading the team by example your focus will be to build a vibrant, safe and welcoming community our residents enjoy being part of.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Role Responsibilities

• Acts as a role model at all times by demonstrating the core values
• Leads the team to create positive memorable experiences by exceeding expectations for all residents.
• Works in partnership with marketing to shape local marketing and leasing strategies based on relevant market data to achieve the property’s occupancy and revenue goals
• Ensures marketing campaigns, advertising and promotional activities are effectively implemented
• Establishes relationships with internal and external stakeholders (sales, marketing, groups, universities) communicating regularly with representatives, ensuring the community’s compliance with pertinent regulations and providing performance data and reporting
• Actively seeks interaction and contact with residents to proactively seek to improve service delivery and ensure community events enhance the overall resident experience.
• Meets targeted revenues by making rate recommendations based on market data and monitors payments.
• Prepares and forecasts annual budgets by analysing financial statements, reviewing marketing information, and accessing operational reports.
• Manages the financial performance; attending regular P&L reviews with stakeholders.
• Promotes investor satisfaction and retention through timely variance reporting in respect of budgeted and actual spending and on-going communication about the performance of the properties, and responds with urgency to client/owner concerns, questions, issues, and requests.
• Promotes resident satisfaction and retention by ensuring a timely response to questions, requests and complaints in a timely manner, and taking appropriate action to resolve and address service issues.
• Assess team member training needs and ensure thorough understanding of systems and adherence to policies
• Develops capability of team members in order to meet key performance goals and future succession requirements.
• Originates, approves and submits purchase orders and processes invoices from vendors, contractors and service providers for payment and manages communication with finance team members and other stakeholders as required.
• Oversees the tenancy management process by co‑ordinating periodic apartment inspections, evicting residents, and imposing and collecting late fees and other charges within the terms of the agreement.
• Works hand in hand with Health & Safety to drive a safety culture by managing and monitoring the appropriate health & safety and compliance activities including the incident reporting system and ensures that the community operates in a safe and risk free environment.
• Ensures the operation of the community complies with Company policies and procedures and any laws and regulations governing housing operations and residential lettings.
• Manages planned and reactive maintenance and refurbishments engaging marketing and capital projects teams to ensure timely resident communication and completion to a high standard within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Conducts regular community walkabouts and inspections and takes appropriate actions to ensure that the physical aspects of the property, grounds, buildings, and amenities meet established standards for safety, cleanliness, and general appearance and appeal.

Key Relationships

• Regional Operations Managers, Investors & Portfolio Management Team.
• Corporate Support Teams including HR, Finance, Systems, Sales & Marketing, Health & Safety & Capital Projects.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Good level of general education
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Proficiency in using property management software. Training will however, be provided.
• A knowledge and understanding of UK Health and Safety policies preferably with some form of recognised training i.e. IOSH or NEBOSH.

Experience & Skills

Essential

• Experience of successfully driving leasing performance and managing operations within the property sector or similar environment.
• Experience of leading a team and a proven track record in delivering service excellence in a similar management role/ environment.
• Detailed knowledge of Landlord/Tenant Legislation.
• A strong team player but capable of working autonomously and taking ownership.
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to multi task and prioritise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Numerical skills necessary to complete the above activities.
• Demonstrated management and leadership skills sufficient to recruit, lead, direct, evaluate and manage team members to achieve high performance, including maintenance specialists.
• Self and culturally aware and able to adapt relationship building, communications and negotiation skills to suit audience.
• Flexible approach to working in a fast‑paced environment and adaptable to thriving in a changing environment.
• Enthusiasm to deliver an exceptional experience to stakeholders and continuously improve knowledge of self and others.

Important Notice

Greystar will never request your banking details or other sensitive personal information during the interview process. Greystar does not conduct any interviews via text or messaging, and all communication will come from official Greystar email addresses (@greystar.com). If you receive suspicious requests, please report them immediately to [e-mail].