Lease-Up Community Manager - Garrett Baseline

The Garrett Companies; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rent discount

Bonuses

Job summary

The Garrett Companies is seeking a driven Community Manager for the Garrett Baseline property in Broomfield, Colorado. You will lead daily operations, manage on-site staff, and ensure an exceptional resident experience while driving occupancy and budget goals.

Ideal candidates have strong leadership, superb communication, and a passion for building communities in a fast-paced environment. Competitive salary includes rent discount and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years property management experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations of the community and lead onsite team.
• Respond to leads, show prospective residents homes, and nurture customer experience.
• Develop marketing and leasing plans to maximize occupancy and revenue.
• Monitor budgets, occupancy, and rent levels to meet goals.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Communication

Team management

Budgeting

Tools

Entrata

Microsoft Office

Job description

Brief DescriptionWe are seeking a driven, personable Community Manager to lead the day-to-day operations and bring the vision of the property to life. This role is ideal for someone with strong leadership skills, and a passion for delivering an exceptional resident experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and take pride in building your community, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact!

Brief DescriptionWe are seeking a driven, personable Community Manager to lead the day-to-day operations and bring the vision of the property to life. This role is ideal for someone with strong leadership skills, and a passion for delivering an exceptional resident experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and take pride in building your community, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact!Location: Garrett Baseline - Broomfield, ColoradoPay: $87-92k annually + $1,500 monthly rent discount + bonuses!Major Objectives

• The Community Manager is responsible for day to day operations of an initial lease-up community and stabilizing the asset to ensure it is fully occupied at appropriate rent levels in accordance with the budget.
• Leads, develops and coordinates onsite team members to reach their fullest potential and exceed the goals of the community by maximizing performance.
• Collaborates with upper management on the objectives for the community and how best to achieve budgeted goals, such as physical and economic occupancy, marketing, expense control and lease up stabilization.
• Expert knowledge of the community’s market, including but not limited to, direct local and product competition, rent levels, amenity preferences, the general housing market, the job market and neighborhood demographics.
• Ensure that each resident and employee experience is in line with the Garrett Residential vision and expectation.
• Proven self-starter with internal drive to work on initiatives and goals with little prompting.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead by example on how to create an exemplary customer experience for all future and existing residents at the community. This includes but is not limited to responding to internet leads, answering phone calls and showing prospective residents their future apartment home.
• Initiate, prioritize and assign individual and onsite team daily activities, including leasing, customer experience relations, marketing, social media posting, vendor relations, selection and recruitment, accounts receivable, accounts payable and make- ready apartment homes.
• Complete market study on a regular basis and consistently communicate updates and new communities in the pipeline. Manager is expected to be able to make strategic marketing and leasing decisions on the community’s behalf for continued success, in addition to overseeing the leasing team.
• Follow-up with ALL prospects via phone call, email and hand written thank you card.
• Complete move-in / move-out inspections with residents.
• Manage future exposure and plan for renewals 120 days out to ensure occupancy stability.
• Ensure the community is open and ready for business at scheduled time daily and that any and all after hours emergencies are appropriately handled.
• Identifies, recruits, interviews and hires appropriate team members for the community.
• Hold regular team meetings to communicate goals, progress, expectations, on-site safety meetings and implementation of new policies and procedures.
• Maintains relationship with vendors, residents, team members and associates on a professional level at all times.
• Consistently and effectively communicates with Director of Property Management and relevant teams regarding community performance.
• Ability to read, analyze, interpret and write required reports, correspondence and policy/procedure manuals.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as occupancy percentages, gross potential rent and commissions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Pre-Requisites

• Be in constant and never ending improvement and development of yourself.
• Minimum of 5 years property management experience.
• Must be consistently detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Professional judgment and discretion that comes from experience in working with customer services, internal teams and vendors.
• Working knowledge or ability to quickly learn accounting software (Entrata); order processing systems; payroll systems; human resources software; Microsoft office, etc.
• Must pass background check and drug screening

Pre-Qualifications (these Are The Most Important Items)

• Able to work in unison with a team.
• Takes full responsibility for actions and works collaboratively to find solutions.
• Coachable.
• Positive Attitude.
• Ability to listen and understand intents and goals.
• Relentless problem-solving skills.
• Ability to think 2+ steps ahead and anticipate what comes next.
• We are all broom pushers. Must be willing to work and support at all levels.
• We are trend setters and standards breakers. Our intent is to consistently pursue excellence, must think creatively and innovatively.
• Demonstrates alignment with our Core Values: Excellence, Sense of Duty, Accountability, Teamwork, Courage, Honesty & Integrity, The Golden Rule, and Caring for All People.

Physical Demands

• Ability to climb up to four flights of stairs to access apartments
• Ability to walk several acres to tour community
• Some lifting; up to 25lbs
• Ability to sit or stand for long periods at a time

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Initial Training and Orientation

• Garrett Companies Onboarding program in Indianapolis.
• Scheduled Weekly Meeting with supervisor.

Ongoing Training

• Membership to professional organizations and continuing education is supported by The Garrett Companies.