Real Estate Transaction Coordinator — End-to-End Closings

Lord Abbett; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lord Abbett is seeking a Transaction Manager to own end-to-end execution logistics for acquisitions, dispositions, and financing across LAPRE markets. This role keeps every deal moving—tracking deadlines, coordinating counterparties, managing paper flow, and surfacing issues before they become problems—so that leadership can focus on decisions.

This is an execution and coordination role, not a negotiating role.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in real estate transaction coordination, title/escrow, closing management, or real estate paralegal work; construction loan closing experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple simultaneous transactions and deadlines across markets without dropping details.
• Comfortable interfacing directly with lenders, title companies, brokers, and outside counsel. Strong written communication; this role drafts and routes negotiation-adjacent correspondence, so clarity and precision matter.
• High discretion; regularly handles confidential deal terms and financial information.
• Residential land development or homebuilding experience a plus, not required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate acquisition, disposition, and financing transactions across markets to keep deals moving.
• Route offers, track redlines, and move the transaction process forward without setting or approving terms.
• Maintain the master transaction calendar and logs, and coordinate with title companies, lenders, brokers, and counsel.
• Monitor deadlines, due diligence items, and closing logistics; surface issues to leadership.
• Prepare weekly/monthly transaction status reports for IC and leadership.

Skills

Transaction coordination

Lenders liaison

Paralegal experience

Discretion

Real estate transactions

Job description

Lord Abbett is seeking a Transaction Manager to own end-to-end execution logistics for acquisitions, dispositions, and financing across LAPRE markets. This role keeps every deal moving—tracking deadlines, coordinating counterparties, managing paper flow, and surfacing issues before they become problems—so that leadership can focus on decisions.

This is an execution and coordination role, not a negotiating role.