Managing Director, Vancouver

4 months ago


Vancouver, Canada Avison Young Canada Full time

Our Story:
**About You**:
You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.

If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young

**About Us**:
Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.

Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives - and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.

We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness - economic, mental and physical - because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.

Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too Avison Young has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 13th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation

Overview:

- The base salary is aligned with market data and is estimated between $250,000 to $300,000 with the ability to achieve additional compensation through a bonus. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and other factors, including relevant education/training, experience, and internal equity._

**Responsibilities**:

- Identifies and engages targeted companies, recruits, and hires high-performing Brokers andStaff for employment or acquisition and maximizes retention.
- Help resources, prepare, and participate in major business development opportunities.
- Engage our emerging leaders and sales associate program, helping to train and develop AvisonYoung’s young professionals.
- Understands financial, HR, legal, administrative, operational, sales resources, and systems andapplies this acumen by investing time and effort to effectively achieve EBITDA targets
- Accountable for Vancouver business budgeting process and associated responsibilities.
- Understands and manages brokerage, property management, project management, leaseadministration and consulting activities.
- Develops, manages, inspires, coaches, mentors, and supports Brokers and Staff to achieveteam, cultural, operational, and revenue goals. Shows high emotional intelligence andcreativity, solving people & deal transaction issues in a timely manner.
- Is a credible expert among experts and has a positive reputation in the market and within theorganization. Must stay engaged, visible, competent, fair, people-savvy, influential, andpersuasive to advance the business, culture and standing of Avison Young.
- Promote and lead engagement with all staff in the company’s corporate initiatives & programs.
- Champion, defend and advance the Avison Young brand and culture both internally and in themarket, promoting and protecting its reputation, health, and overall value of the enterprise atall times.
- Understands and embraces our goal of being globally consistent and locally relevant byeffectively using communications and the ability to promote Avison Young mission, goals, andstrategies, making them relevant to Brokers and Staff by integrating corporate messages andgoals into communications (literature, presentations, website, discussions, meetings, recruitingads, and retention efforts), while encouraging participation in Affinity Groups.
- Show the demonstrated abilities to develop and maintain business relationships within variousindustry, civic, and trade associations through membership and participation.

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 10 years of management experience in Commercial Real Estate
- Broker’s Real Estate license is required
- Brokerage experience would be an asset

Personal Attributes:

- Resourceful - This job requires a person who is driven by practical results, maximizing both efficiency and returns for their investments of time, talent, energy, and resource
- Instinctive - This job requires a person who is driven by using past experiences and intuition
- and seeks specific knowledge when necessary
- Collaborative - This job requires a person who is driven in a supporting role and contrib



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