Commercial Real Estate Manager

Overview

Job Description – Real Estate Manager

Location: Dallas, TX or Tampa, FL (Hyrbid)

Overview:

Apex Service Partners, LLC, a leading residential home services company, is seeking a Real Estate Manager to manage its expanding real estate portfolio across the U.S. This role involves close collaboration with operations, legal, marketing, and finance teams to secure and manage leases that align with the company’s growth and operational needs, while ensuring compliance and efficiency. You’ll get to work directly with operations leadership to set them up for success and growth.  Your efforts and ability will truly make a difference to their success.  Next, you get to help shape our real estate strategy.  Our industry has massive upside; Apex even given our growth has single digit market share and is already the industry leader.

Role overview and company background: Apex Service Partners, founded in 2019, operates over 280 locations in 46 states, focusing on HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services, with over 12,000 employees and $2.5 billion in annual revenue. The Real Estate Manager reports to the SVP of Operations Support and plays a key role in real estate strategy and operations success.

Key responsibilities:

• The manager will conduct market surveys, coordinate site visits, lease negotiations, due diligence including zoning and regulatory approvals, and act as a liaison between internal teams and external real estate partners.
• They also manage administrative tasks, maintain contract databases, ensure critical deadlines are met, and coordinate lease commencements and payments.
• They will work to reduce excess real estate with coordination of subleases or negotiate early terminations.

Candidate profile:

• Preferred candidates hold a BA/BS degree
• 1-3 years of experience in real estate or related fields, possess knowledge of commercial real estate, and demonstrate proficiency in Word and Excel.
• Strong organizational, communication, and time management skills, along with an entrepreneurial mindset, attention to detail, and a positive team-oriented attitude, are essential.

Performance metrics and location:

• The role’s success is measured by securing leases on budget, managing property expirations and renewals with 100% compliance, reducing excess real estate and ensuring on-time project commencement to improve operational efficiency.
• They will be producing scorecards with key real estate metrics, such as average cost per square feet, average increase amount and rent expense as a percentage of revenue.

Personal Characteristics:

• The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional attention to detail and consistently delivers flawless execution in complex projects.
• They possess strong emotional intelligence and experience in blue-collar environments, making them a good cultural fit.
• Analytical and data-driven, they turn insights into actionable decisions and communicate effectively in both written and spoken forms.
• Their approach is rooted in continuous improvement, outstanding time management, and organization.
• Resourceful and creative, they achieve results even with limited resources and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial settings.
• Collaboration, energy, impeccable integrity, and ethical standards are hallmarks of their character.
• They are self-aware, honest, respectful, and dedicated to ongoing personal growth and development.