Multi-Site Community Manager in London

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 $300 billion of real estate in over 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 more than one million units/beds globally.

Job Description Summary

You will run an autonomous multi-site business across multiple London locations 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 via an efficient and low touch operating model.

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 appointed Estate Agents ensuring a smooth handover and move in experience for all new residents entering the buildings/schemes.
• 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, 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.
• Assesses 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.
• 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.

Role Scope

• Reports to: Regional Operations Manager
• Properties: Multi-site locations within London, with remote working and Greystar London Corporate Office
• Capacity: 185 units, with growth trajectory from 185 to circa 900 units
• Team: circa 1 Team Member (directly employed)

Key Relationships

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

About You

• 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 revenue, occupancy, service excellence and profitability in a multi-site operation within the property sector, leisure or retail environment.
• Evidence of understanding leadership and expectation setting to achieve high performance in a multi-site role.
• A positive team player, skilled at working collaboratively with team members, key business leaders to drive results and support the wider team and business objectives.
• Excellent organisation skills, including the ability to prioritise workload, achieve deadline driven defined outcomes and displays good judgment under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills & numerical skills necessary to complete the above activities.
• 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.

• Desirable:
• Evidence of change management delivery.
• Knowledge of Landlord/Tenant Legislation.

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 AskHR@greystar.com.