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Director - Operations Platform

Salary
Competitive
Employment
Full Time
Work Place
Remote
Real Estate Field
Location
 IL
Postal Code
60606
Country
United States

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Description


LivCor, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a real estate asset management business specializing in multi-family housing. Formed in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, LivCor is currently responsible for a portfolio of over 400 Class A and B properties comprising more than 150,000 units in markets across the United States.

 

Our business is focused on making real estate more valuable. But for us, it’s more than that. It’s people first, the community always. It’s a life-filled career, not just a career-filled life. It’s doing excellent work, with good humans, and making a difference. It’s excellence in all its forms. Ultimately, we create wonderful places to work, live, and grow. We do that by focusing on leaving people – and places – better than we found them.

 

Whew! Still with us? Cool. Let’s talk about where you’d fit in:

 

Do you find yourself daydreaming about unique solutions to everyday problems? Creating processes and logic to bring structure to the disarray? Finding the yesses instead of the noes? Then you may be the perfect human for our vibrant, diverse, high-achieving team!

 

The Director of Operations Platform position is rooted in the continuous rapid growth of our firm to build out innovation capabilities, quantify value, create structure, and transfer them into opportunities to impact the broader organization.

 

In partnership with the SVP of Operations, VP leads on the team, and other LivCor colleagues; this position will play an integral role in driving performance while impacting change and contributing to results for the portfolio. They will be responsible for organizing and managing projects while promoting the engagement of all internal/external stakeholders. As partner or project lead, they will be a strategic thinker that shares responsibility for leading the property operating platform while collaborating to improve the business process.  

 

The Director of Operations Platform is an articulate and clear communicator and is particularly adept at leveraging influence to establish value proposition and to negotiate and build consensus. They will be responsible for managing assigned projects and guiding their overall direction. The Director must communicate with various stakeholders on projects, as well as higher-level employees, including senior managers and executive leaders. The Director should be highly analytical, organized, be able to meet deadlines, and know how to develop reporting on their projects. This work requires quick thinking, mental agility, and people skills to succeed. This job frequently may require more than 40 hours a week, depending on the project(s). The hours worked could also increase closer to project deadlines.  

 

Only Read Further If You Are

  • Kind
  • Humble
  • Honest
  • Relentless
  • Smart with Heart

You should be:

  • Authentic. You do you. Together, we’ll do something amazing.
  • A passionate person with a love for real estate and investing; and believes that helping others win is a noble cause, essential to our success.
  • An excellent team player who enjoys working with others and has strong interpersonal skills.
  • Highly motivatedenergetic, and organized
  • Gumby. Things change.

What you will do:

  • Demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit, always imagining what’s possible with a solutions-oriented and data-driven approach to problem-solving
  • Address assignments collaboratively so that the result is a representation of all stakeholders
  • Work with senior leaders to build culture and diversity within broader team/organization
  • Approach projects with an eye for detail orientation and a process logic that drives project approach
    • Seek clarity on project goal/thesis statement/problem statement
    • Clearly define success for the project, including goals, expectations, and LivCor KPIs
    • Include all internal/external stakeholders
    • Manage communication and project timelines to build consensus and deliver timely work product
  • Produce PowerPoint and other project type presentations to varying audiences, from on site apartment teams to executive stakeholders
  • Display strong written and verbal communication skills to represent LivCor and our Operating Partners, having both their best interest in mind, always
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, environment with consistently changing deadlines and priorities
  • Leverage existing and identify new vendor relationships to shape the future of the Multi-Family Real Estate industry

What you should have:

  • Experience in multifamily real estate or similar is preferred. Parallel experience can be a lot of things (hospitality and retail are two examples), so tell us how your background can help LivCor succeed!
  • Deep expertise in project management with experience managing multiple projects
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills. Collaborate at all levels, working with team members, senior management, business owners, and vendors to move projects forward.  
  • Thrives in a fast-paced dynamic work environment
  • Credibility and the ability to lead through influence
  • Demonstrates mental agility, strong organizational skills, and the ability to self-manage time effectively
  • Proficiency in Excel and all Microsoft office applications
  • Ability to travel up to 15%

What we offer:

We know that if we take care of our team everything else will fall into place. We aren’t perfect, but we will try to set clear expectations, always let you know where you stand, and do everything in our power to help you get where you want to go.

 

Our culture and values matter to us. A lot. We’re definitely not serious but we take this stuff seriously if you get what we mean. We want a place that is an ego-free zone. A place where good people do good things together. It shouldn’t be rocket science in workplaces, but for some reason it still is? We’re absolutely determined to be different, and we think we’re doing a pretty good job at it. We have a CEO who makes fun of himself, and who will encourage you to tell him when he is wrong. In fact, he needs people to – we all do. Supportive challenge is good, it’s how we get better. We like getting better. We also love diversity, of all kinds. We need people who look, sound, speak, love, and exist differently from one another. This isn’t at the end of this paragraph because it’s an afterthought. It’s SO important to us we want it to stand out.

 

Right. On to the technical stuff that we know matters to you. We offer competitive pay that is commensurate with the market and relevant experience and a full slate of benefits that even includes things like paid parental leave.

  

If any of this sounds interesting, then maybe we are a fit. Life is too short to work with people you don’t like. So whatever you do, don’t make that mistake.

 

In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this position is $136,850-$186,300 (for candidates that reside in CO). This role is bonus eligible. Benefits include generous health insurance and wellness benefits, 401(k), and paid time off.

 

The LivCorian Values

  1. Be you. Be Real. Be Open. You do you. Together, we will do something amazing.
  2. Care, Always. We don’t want to let anyone down.
  3. Courageously Curious. We love to learn, even when it hurts.
  4. Help Others Win, Be A Good Neighbor. This is about ‘We, not Me.’
  5. Relentless Hustle, Heart & Humility. Work hard. Be Kind. Make Better.

LivCor is proud to be a US EPA ENERGY STAR® Partner

 

EEO Statement

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements and business needs without regard to race, color, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, religion, disability, citizenship status, national origin, pregnancy, veteran status and or any other legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email us.

 

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