Senior Director of Operations - New Orleans, LA

Want to hear something crazy? Cars only spend 5% of their time driving. Where do they spend the other 95%? PARKED!

LAZ Parking is one of the largest and fastest growing parking companies in the country. LAZ operates hundreds of thousands of parking spaces across the country. When it comes to parking, we're the experts!

We are also a PEOPLE FIRST company. We often say "parking is our industry but people are our passion." Our mission is to "create opportunities for our employees and value for our clients". If you're looking to join a growing company led by passionate people committed to being the best - contact us today!

Salary Range: $95k-115k

The Spirit of the Position:

The Senior Director of Operations supports the Regional Vice President with a complete oversight for financials and operations of assigned portfolio to ensure 24/7 professional parking management in commercial, government services and other accounts. As a company devoted to promoting an employee-focused servant leadership culture, the Senior Director of Operations will support the programs and initiatives originating from our home office and help to support the individual needs of their operational teams throughout their assigned portfolio. This role does require weekend and evening availability.

Principal Job Duties:

• Maintain multiple client accounts. Including, but not limited to: commercial garages and surface lots, government contracts, municipalities.
• Responsible for developing client relationships and business retention.
• Ensuring that increased revenue, managed expenses, and customer satisfaction is maximized by maintaining the highest level of service thresholds and initiatives that are aligned with the expectations of our various clients.
• Assist the region with the business development, proposal, presentation, and transitions for new locations.
• Lead, direct, and develop team of managers and employees to accomplish annual and periodic goals/initiatives, while embodying and using LAZ Parking's culture as a guideline.
• Identifying high potential employees to support the organization's continued growth.
• Responsible for planning and executing plan for the opening of new locations within their assigned portfolio.
• Preparation of budgets/monthly reviews of profit/loss by location with assigned portfolio.
• Organize and narrate parking management skills for Facilities Managers and Assistant Managers.
• Understand, implement, and deliver all requirements that are outlined within the contractual agreement between LAZ Parking and our clients.
• Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Annual financial and operational reports as required.
• Managing, planning, scheduling, training, and directing the activities of Facilities Managers and Assistant Managers.
• Serve as a liaison to parking patrons and various stakeholder groups who are impacted by the operations of the assigned portfolio (and vice versa).
• Implement and complete other projects, programs, and initiatives that may arise from the operation of assigned portfolio.
• Review and edit proposed parking, maintenance, etc. agreements.
• Communicate with local police department and emergency management teams regarding operations.
• Organize and manage the oversight of event operations within LAZ Parking.
• Monitor, review, and analyze the market rate structures.
• Implementation and completion of other projects, programs, and initiatives that may arise from assigned portfolio operation.
• Additional related duties as assigned by leadership.

Requirements:

• Must have an understanding of P&L's.
• Ability to run monthly client reports.
• Ability to manage the client-LAS relationship.
• Must be willing to travel to different locations on a daily/weekly basis as needed.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• 8+ years in parking management role.
• Previous experience managing at least 8 manager-titled direct reports.
• Experience in maintaining, fostering and growing client relationships.
• Experience overseeing hospitality, commercial and municipal parking operations.
• Previous experience with parking management systems and technology.
• Knowledge of Excel, Word, Power Point and General Microsoft Office Applications.

Skills:

• Parking management experience of multiple locations is required.

• Ability to work evening hours and weekends as needed

• Ability to seek improvement and create an environment of idea sharing and creative problem solving.

• Strong customer service skills and abilities.

• Ability to be approachable and facilitate coaching conversations with employees and managers.

• Ability to mitigate and lead others to overcome challenges (Never Ever Give Up Attitude).

• Ability to encourage open expression of ideas and opinions.

• Excellent teambuilding and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and multi-task.

• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with all levels of the organization.

• Ability to interpret policies, procedures, and standard business practices.

• Demonstrates a sense of urgency and timeliness.

Physical Demands:

• Willingness to work in the elements - heat, wind, snow, rain, etc.
• Ability to lift, push and pull at least 25 pounds.
• Ability to stand, walk and run for extended periods of time.
• Ability bend, stoop, squat and lift frequently throughout a shift.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualified disabilities to perform the essential duties/functions.

FLSA Status: Exempt

LAZ Parking is an equal opportunity employer. In all our employment practices, including hiring, we are firmly committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetics, Vietnam era, special disabled, recently separated and other protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. No question in our application process is used for the process of limiting or excluding any applicant's consideration for employment on such grounds.

LAZ Parking participates in E-Verify.