Property Manager (Sablemill Lease-Up)

The role

The Lease-Up Property Manager leads all operational, financial, leasing, and resident-service activities for a new 281-unit Class A multifamily community. This role involves establishing property operations, building the on-site team, and managing the transition from construction through stabilization.

What you will do

• Open the leasing office and establish community operating systems, procedures, and reporting standards.
• Coordinate Yardi setup including unit coding, lease documents, and application workflows.
• Develop market surveys and recommend rent matrices and concession strategies.
• Partner with Marketing on property launch plans, advertising, and resident events.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, train, and lead the leasing, administrative, resident-services, and maintenance teams.
• Establish vendor and service contracts.
• Develop the operating budget calendar and financial-reporting cadence.
• Conduct pre-delivery unit walks with Construction and Development teams.
• Lead the property lease-up strategy to deliver signed leases and move-ins.
• Manage annual operating budgets and property standards throughout stabilized operations.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience in a multifamily lease-up environment.
• Experience leading a Class A multifamily lease-up community.
• Prior Property Manager experience.
• Demonstrated success leading multifamily property operations and supervising, coaching, and developing on-site team members.
• Strong knowledge of leasing, budgeting, financial reporting, revenue management, occupancy performance, customer service, compliance, and day-to-day property operations.
• Experience making sound operational and financial decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience building and maintaining effective relationships with ownership, developers, Asset Management, Construction, Marketing, vendors, and residents.
• Experience using Yardi or a comparable property-management platform.
• Strong communication, critical-thinking, creative problem-solving, organizational, and relationship-management skills.
• Availability to work occasional evenings and weekends.

Nice to have

• Experience opening a new-construction apartment community and transitioning the property from construction through initial occupancy and stabilization.
• Experience establishing property procedures, leasing workflows, reporting standards, customer-service expectations, and operational controls for a new community.
• Experience recruiting, onboarding, training, and developing a complete on-site team during a new-community opening or lease-up.
• Experience managing leasing velocity, pre-leasing, occupancy goals, rent recommendations, concession strategies, renewals, and revenue performance during a lease-up.
• Experience presenting operational, leasing, and financial performance information to senior leadership, ownership groups, or Asset Management.
• Knowledge of the Charlotte, North Carolina multifamily market.

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays
• 10 vacation days
• 10 sick days
• Two Volunteer Days off
• Two Personal Days
• Winter Break
• Day off for Annual Physical
• Day off for your Birthday
• Comprehensive parental and bonding leave
• Company Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Access to retirement planning coaches
• Annual Wellness Reimbursement of up to $900

About the company

Van Metre provides top quality homes, investment properties and services to customers and clients. The company emphasizes integrity, professionalism and philanthropy.