Community Manager

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Vintage, IL
3-5 Years Experience
Real Estate
The Role
The Community Manager is responsible for leading and directing all community operations, including hiring, training, motivating staff, and ensuring resident satisfaction. They oversee financial and leasing metrics, property performance, and compliance with regulations. Key responsibilities include conducting regular meetings, evaluating unit prices, obtaining bids for services, and ensuring high levels of customer service. The ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills, be service-oriented, and demonstrate support of core values and strategic drivers.
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We Care. We Deliver. Our purpose is to create communities our residents are proud to call home. We currently own or manage over 85,000 units in North America and continue to grow.  

 

Bell Partners, https://bellpartnersinc.com/overview/ a national leader in multi-family housing, our mission is to be the apartment company of choice by creating value and honoring commitments to our residents, partners, and associates.

The Community Manager is responsible for leading and directing all community operations. The position is responsible for hiring, training, and continuously motivating community staff members to provide exceptional service to residents and maintain a high level of resident satisfaction. The Community Manager is also responsible for partnership with the Regional Manager regarding timely reporting of all financial and leasing metrics, including forecasting and management of budget.

Essential Functions and Position Responsibilities

  • Lead, direct, and control all facets of the community to ensure quality services and a high degree of customer satisfaction by to Bell standards and policies, while working within budgetary guidelines
  • Recruit, hire, onboard, manage and provide performance feedback to employees to ensure community performance and adequate staffing.
  • Motivate associates through recognition programs, training, and team building. 
  • Ensure BAL strategic drivers are communicated to staff and achieved
  • Ensure property performance is maximized—this includes walking the grounds to ensure product is show ready; walk all made-ready apartments to inspect and ensure readiness for new resident.
  • Tour visitors and guests (this includes prospects, owners, investors, guests from corporate) to show amenities, apartments, models, community, etc. (this may involve walking on hills and up and down 3 flights of stairs)
  • Conduct regular performance appraisals and address any associate concerns or employee relations issues
  • Conduct daily meetings with leasing and maintenance staff
  • Evaluate unit prices in accordance with the market and budgeted goals
  • Obtain bids for all contract services and oversee routine capital projects; coordinate with Corporate Departments, as necessary
  • Ensure that the onsite staff provides the highest level of service to residents; respond appropriately to survey results
  • Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations
  • Regular attendance and punctuality
  • Additional duties as assigned. 

Core Competencies

  • Able to analyze and explain financial reports
  • Strong working knowledge of property management software and other necessary programs
  • Superior interpersonal skills; ability to get along with diverse personalities; tactful; mature, flexible
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication
  • Highly service-oriented; prioritizes customer experience and team member support
  • Strong time management and ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities
  • Maintains professional demeanor and appearance at all times
  • Must demonstrate support of Bell Core Values
  • Must demonstrate support of BAL strategic drivers
  • Resourceful and well-organized.

Education and Background 

  • BA/BS in business, sales, or related field preferred but not required; relevant experience will be considered.
  • 3+ years’ experience in a property management role preferred
  • Demonstrated history of successful supervisory experience required

Schedule

  • Full-time
  • M-F 8-5
  • Some weekends and evenings as needed

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Employee Insurance Plan Options
  • Insurance premium discount with Employee Wellness Program
  • Paid Vacation, Holidays, Floating Holidays, and Sick Leave
  • 401(k) matching
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Performance bonuses

Bell Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such, we recognize our responsibility to embrace and promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) throughout all aspects and levels of our organization including talent recruiting and retention, training, workplace culture, and community engagement.

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Bell Partners, Inc. (“BPI” or the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. BPI’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. BPI also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is BPI’s policy to comply with all applicable state and federal laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Note to Applicants: Smoking is prohibited in all indoor areas of Bell Partners Inc. unless designated smoking areas have been established by a particular location in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Top Skills

Property Management Software
The Company
Austin, TX
1,196 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1976

What We Do

Established in 1976, Bell Partners Inc. (“Bell Partners” or the “Company”) is a privately held, vertically integrated apartment investment and management company focused on high-quality multifamily communities throughout the United States. Bell Partners is a best in class apartment operator, with nearly 70,000 homes across 13 states and the District of Columbia, and is one of the largest apartment renovators in the industry. The Company has over 1,600 associates and 11 offices (including its headquarters in Greensboro, NC) and offers an extensive and full service operating platform containing expertise in acquisitions and dispositions, financing, property operations, accounting, risk management and all other related support functions. Bell Partners is led by a senior management team with an average of over 20 years of experience that has invested throughout all phases of the real estate cycle and has helped the Company complete over $22 billion of apartment transactions since 2002.

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