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Portfolio Operations Manager

Upfrnt USA Inc

Austin, TX • 11/8/2026

Job Description

Job Description

Detail

Title

Portfolio Operations Manager

Reports to

Asset Executive Sponsor

Direct reports

Customer Service Agent, Maintenance Tech, Facilities & Grounds Specialist

Works with

Chief Engineer, Finance Manager, Leasing / Marketing, Procurement, HR, Legal & Compliance, Director of Standards & Experience

Type

Full-time

Location

Austin, Texas Central Services, with frequent presence at the asset

Employer

Upfrnt USA Inc

Role

The Portfolio Operations Manager runs the asset. They carry the property operating P&L, they are the named person accountable for how the property is operated, and the on-site team works for them.

ResponsibilitiesThe property operating P&L
  • Revenue ownership, controls operating expense and NOI against budget, for each asset held.

  • Own the budget and the variance explanation review and feedback to deal team to improve pricing economics.

  • Spend within documented approval limits; escalate above them rather than splitting an invoice.

  • Be able to identify a cost billable to owner and build a case / documentation to defend the billing requirement.

The on-site team
  • Solid-line management of the three on-site roles: rotation and coverage, day-to-day priorities, emergency response, performance management, and progression recommendations.

  • Work closely with the Chief Engineer on all maintenance standards and requirements on site. Joint escalation to Asset Sponsor where required.

Residents
  • Escalations, renewals, lease compliance and enforcement, and the service-level standards the property is held to.

  • After-hours dispatch, and service recovery.

  • Fair-housing consistency in every decision about who gets what and when: renewals, enforcement, accommodation, concessions, and how quickly a complaint is answered.

  • Legal notices and execution is correct and timely.

  • Up to date, accurate documentation on CMS.

The maintenance and turn programme
  • Planned and executed to the Chief Engineer’s technical standard; turn cycle time and turn quality at handover; make-ready that a resident moves into without a snag list.

  • The vendor relationship on the ground, adhering to the terms Procurement has set. Hold vendors to scope; take commercial disputes back to Procurement with clear documentation.

The owner’s asset
  • Recognise capital, structural and major-system conditions and escalate them with evidence rather than absorbing them.

Feed the system of record
  • Update consistently and accurately organization CMS.

  • Report where the software is failing, specifically enough to be fixed. The thin on-site model only works if the automation works, and the job holder is the first to feedback changes and improvements needed.

RequirementsMust bring
  • Has carried a P&L for a property, hotel or site, and can explain the variation rather than only report the result.

  • Has managed a small on-site team directly rotation, coverage, performance, and the difficult conversations that go with it.

  • Has run a written service standard in a residential or guest environment, and been audited against it by someone else.

  • Fair Housing, lease enforcement and Texas landlord–tenant literacy, or the discipline to build it fast and stop at the line. Renewals, notices and enforcement are where the exposure is created.

  • Comfortable with a deliberately thin on-site team and software carrying the load and willing to say plainly when the software is not carrying it.

  • Willing to escalate rather than absorb. In this job that means saying “this is capital” out loud, at cost to their own numbers.

Helpful, not required
  • Lease-up or repositioning experience.

  • Hotel GM, extended-stay or serviced apartments, senior living executive director, club or resort operations.

  • Process-engineering background lean, Kaizen, S&OP, supply chain or manufacturing operations. Not a substitute for the must-bring list.

  • NAA credentials (CAM, CAPS).

  • Spanish.

Results
  • Budget held with variance fully accounted for.

  • Approval limits documented.

  • On-site team hired and trained with no turnover.

  • Service-level standards published and adhered to.

  • Turn programme running to the Chief Engineer’s technical standard.

  • Renewal programme executed and updated.

  • Revenue improvements.

  • Service recovery.



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