Assistant Property Manager - Longfellow Real Estate Partners : Job Details

Company Background:

Longfellow Real Estate Partners is a vertically integrated real estate company dedicated to investing in the rapidly growing and highly specialized life sciences sector. Our institutional capabilities and market expertise enable us to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for our investors while building collaborative, long-term partnerships with our tenants. Longfellow is a highly entrepreneurial organization where we pride ourselves on a shared work ethic and a focus on accomplishing collective objectives. Longfellow strives to develop deep and lasting relationships internally within our team and externally with our investors, clients, vendors, and community through a shared vision and values.

Longfellow has grown from a small start-up in 2009 to a 160+ person organization and one of the largest privately owned owner / operators in the life science industry. The firm has a 16M+ square foot existing portfolio / development pipeline across 7 major life sciences markets in the US and UK (Boston, Maryland-Washington D.C., New York City, North Carolina, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, and London/Cambridge in the UK).

With unprecedented growth, we are looking for a collaborative and entrepreneurial individual to join Longfellow where we envision considerable opportunity for advancement as our firm expands. We believe whats good for our team is good for our business Longfellow encourages a kind, fun, and collaborative culture where the wins are shared. We envision considerable opportunity for advancement as our organization expands.

Position Background:

We are seeking to hire an experienced and highly talented Assistant Property Manager for our class A lab/office portfolio, for a 2 million square foot portfolio in I-40/RTP submarket. This position will report directly to the Property Manager.

This is a dynamic role that will work closely daily with tenants, facilities management, service contractors, accounting, as well as asset management. The position provides exposure to a full spectrum of duties within a fast-growing real estate development and management firm. As such, the position demands a dedicated individual with excellent attention to detail, leadership skills, facility with numbers, strong people skills and the ability to prioritize, multi-task, work independently and solve problems.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Proactively communicate with tenants and cultivate strong tenant relationships;
• Actively respond to tenant requests and follow up as issues are resolved;
• Manage and report on AR in the portfolio independently
• Assist with periodic inspections of the physical properties and tenant spaces to ensure adherence to safety standards, compliance with leases, and to ensure general upkeep of the property;
• Help maintain vendor service contracts and certificates of insurance for vendors and tenants;
• Assist in monthly financial reporting process including accruals;
• Code and work closely with accounting team on vendor invoice input into accounting software;
• Read and abstract all new leases and amendments;
• Participate in internal property management meetings;

We are looking for a passionate team player with grit, high integrity and a honed attention to detail. In addition, we expect that your life outside of work is as important as your career and that you are driven to succeed in both.

Qualifications:

• Personal commitment to providing best in class service and operations within the portfolio;
• Bachelors Degree and professional designation preferred;
• 3-5 years' experience successfully managing commercial properties, life science industry experience preferred;
• Basic knowledge of payables/receivables; Yardi and Sharepoint experience preferred;
• Strong customer service skills, including listening and empathizing
• Desire for professional industry growth such as achieving an RPA or CPM designation and current participation in professional industry associations;
• Strong knowledge of the physical aspect of commercial buildings, construction, and building systems;
• Working knowledge of commercial leases and service contract forms;
• Familiarity with industry standard accounting systems;
• Individual should possess excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to handle multiple tasks with strong organizational skills;
• Detail oriented with independent work ethic;