Property Manager

About the Company:

Longfellow Real Estate Partners is a vertically integrated real estate company dedicated to investing in innovation real estate including life sciences, office, and R&D. Our institutional capabilities and market expertise enable us to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for our investors while building collaborative, long-term partnerships with our tenants. Longfellow is a highly entrepreneurial organization where we pride ourselves on a shared work ethic and a focus on accomplishing collective objectives. Longfellow strives to develop deep and lasting relationships internally within our team and externally with our investors, clients, vendors, and community through a shared vision and our core values: ethical, respectful, passionate and genuine.

Since its start as a small company in 2009, Longfellow has grown into a 90+ person organization and is now one of the largest privately owned operators and developers in life science and innovation. The firm has a ~12M square foot global portfolio and development pipeline across several major innovation markets in the US and UK (San Diego; San Francisco Bay Area; North Carolina; Maryland-Washington D.C.; and Cambridge, UK), with additional offices in Boston and London.

Position Background:

We are seeking to hire a Property Manager to manage the class A lab/office portfolio of Discovery at Perimeter Park in Morrisville, NC. This position is fully on-site, 8:00 to 5:00 Monday through Friday.

The position provides exposure to a full spectrum of duties within a fast-growing real estate development and management firm. As such, the position demands a dedicated individual with excellent attention to detail, facility with numbers, good people skills, and the ability to prioritize, multi-task, work independently, and solve problems.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day property operations, including routine maintenance schedules, work orders, and oversight of third-party building engineers and vendors.
• Conduct periodic inspections of the property and tenant spaces to ensure safety, lease compliance, and general upkeep.
• Provide responsive, service-oriented communication to tenants and vendors, ensuring requests and issues are addressed promptly and efficiently.
• Support property accounting and financial reporting, including annual operating budgets, monthly reporting, variance analysis, accruals, and reclasses.
• Plan, manage, and track property management capital projects within approved budgets.
• Review leases and amendments, prepare lease abstracts, and collaborate with property management, asset management, and accounting teams.
• Respond to onsite emergencies quickly and efficiently.
• Ensure the team is maintaining vendor service contracts and certificates of insurance for tenants and vendors.

Qualifications:

We are looking for a passionate team player with grit, high integrity, and a honed attention to detail. In addition, we expect that your life outside of work is as important as your career and that you are driven to succeed in both.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in property management operations.
• Personal commitment to providing best in class service and operations within the portfolio.
• Strong experience with financial reporting and budgeting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel proficiency required).
• Strong customer service experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities independently while meeting deadlines.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and methodical, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.