Industrial Property Manager: Tenant & Asset Performance

Ares Management; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Management is seeking a Property Manager to oversee an assigned industrial real estate portfolio, delivering operational efficiency and maximizing tenant satisfaction while achieving financial goals.

The role requires strong vendor management, budget planning, and strategic maintenance oversight, with travel up to 50% to site locations. Strong communication with tenants, vendors, and internal teams is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of property management experience.
• Experience supervising vendor partners.
• Experience managing property level financial planning and reporting.
• Experience managing maintenance capital projects.
• Proficiency in standard real estate software programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively with tenants, vendor partners and internal teams.
• Ability to interpret property-level and corporate documents such as tenant leases, building plans and related specifications, operating and maintenance instructions, and policy manuals.

Responsibilities

• Executes a high level of customer service to tenants within the portfolio through a sense of urgency with responding to tenant requests, and actively meeting and engaging with tenants on a regular basis.
• Ensures that the move-in/move-out process within their assigned portfolio is being executed timely and efficiently.
• Actively engages with tenants to maintain low levels of accounts receivables through regular contact, processing of collection notices, and tenant account management.
• Executes a high level of support to local asset management teams to minimize downtime of vacant units and to maximize tenant retention.
• Develops and executes preventative maintenance programs to extend the life expectancy of building elements.
• Actively manages service contracts to leverage scale, to minimize costs, and to consolidate vendors partners across the portfolio.
• Tours properties within the assigned portfolio on a regular basis to ensure properties are being maintained to ARES property standards, liabilities are being minimized, and capital projects and other property level projects are being completed in accordance with budget and timing.
• Completes the annual budget process for the assigned portfolio, in accordance with internal timing expectations, to ensure accurate property level expenses and a complete 10-year capital plan.
• Actively manages financial performance through expense approvals, strategic property-level spending, monthly financial reporting, property level variance reporting, and expense accrual submittals.
• Ensures that the onboarding and offboarding of properties through acquisitions/dispositions is coordinated efficiently with the transaction teams.
• Assumes additional responsibilities and performs special projects as needed or directed.

Skills

Property management

Vendor management

Financial planning

Maintenance projects

Real estate software

Tenant communication

Lease documentation

Education

BA/BS in Finance or Real Estate

CPM/RPA designation preferred

Job description

Ares Management is seeking a Property Manager to oversee an assigned industrial real estate portfolio, delivering operational efficiency and maximizing tenant satisfaction while achieving financial goals.

The role requires strong vendor management, budget planning, and strategic maintenance oversight, with travel up to 50% to site locations. Strong communication with tenants, vendors, and internal teams is essential for success.