Regional Director/General Manager at ALR Partners,… · Washington

Company Description

Our Client, Rental Beast, is a cutting edge real estate rental company in the Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Miami markets with active expansions into many other areas throughout the U.S. Dedicated to simplifying the rental market, Rental Beast connects landlords and property managers with highly qualified tenants through a network of hyper-local real estate experts. Rental Beast is modeled after multiple listing services (MLS) but for the rental market. With an online platform that has access to nearly 2,500,000 million listings, Rental Beast leverages the insights of knowledgeable local experts and a comprehensive database of the latest rental market data to ensure each tenant, landlord and real estate agent has access to the information they need to navigate and succeed in a competitive rental market.

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Regional Director and General Manager with an entrepreneurial spirit to fully oversee the regional launch and growth of our disruptive apartment hunting service in the Washington, DC area.

This position is available immediately and presents the right candidate with a tremendous opportunity to spearhead the roll-out and growth of our business in the DC region.

The successful candidate will be an experienced, versatile manager with a background in real estate or experience managing a sophisticated sales and rental office. A familiarity with the local Washington, DC neighborhoods and leasing practices along with the proven ability to manage all aspects of a fast-paced operation is necessary.

This position will also ensure business growth through managing business development activities to ensure these are delivered in accordance with the organizational strategy.

Key Responsibilities & Competencies

• Recruit, train and motivate a superstar data entry team. We are experiencing very rapid growth so there is a need to build a great staff quickly and efficiently.
• Manage the day‐to-day operation of our back office technology which includes the building and maintaining of our local database of several hundred thousand properties.
• Provide customer service to our broker clients.
• Proactively manage all hourly wage employees.
• Manage relationships with the property managers and private owners listed in the Rental Beast Database.
• Maintain a deep understanding of your local market and its current Real Estate news. Be able to identify what traits make it unique so as to best position Rental Beast best within it.
• Establish yourself as the local face of Rental Beast by becoming active in local Real Estate associations
• Identify and build relationships with property managers and owners not yet listed with Rental Beast.
• Reach out to small, medium and large size real estate owners and managers and pitch the Rental Beast relationship.
• Track and achieve daily, monthly and annual goals in terms of number of listings acquired and the level of accuracy and “freshness” our database needs to maintain.

Qualifications

Background in real estate or experience managing a sales and rental office.

• Background in real estate or experience managing a sales and rental office.
• Familiarity with the local neighborhoods and leasing practices.
• Experience working within a complex database.
• Proven leadership skills including the ability to successfully motivate employees at all levels.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Excellent time and task management skills, and the ability to “wear many hats.”
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and shifting environment.

Additional Information

What is offered

This is a key position in a vibrant and rapidly growing Company. The right candidate will have a tremendous opportunity for professional growth within the organization. Reaching or exceeding Company goals will be generously rewarded.

The position carries a competitive base salary along with an annual bonus plan and stock options.