Business Systems Manager Real Estate - NFI Industries

This position serves as primary owner of NFI Real Estate’s platform of technology/systems and is responsible for the internal product management of software and system-based projects. This professional is a fundamental SME that maintains alignment across NFI Real Estate by defining, documenting, and communicating single source of truth data governance and enhancements. This role will involve systems administration for all stakeholders needed to support the business of NFI’s owned Industrial Real Estate portfolio of 17+m sf and growing across the US. NFI Real Estate is a business unit of NFI Industries, a leading 3rd party supply chain enterprise with operations throughout North America.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Include, but not limited to, the following.

• Manage an ecosystem of applications, infrastructure, and integrations to ensure seamless flow of information throughout the platform using APIs / ETL tools.
• Define and manage Systems Business Plan vision, roadmap, objectives, and execution that builds confidence in the platform by key stakeholders.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with corporate IT (supporting the other operating business lines of the company) to create leveraged synergies that maintain corporate security and governance requirements. 
• Develop relationships and contracts for support with external partners, vendors, and consultants to deliver best quality products and services.
• Maintain knowledge and trends for continuous improvements to the platform that is efficient, sustainable, measurable, and reportable.
• Create and manage workflow mapping diagrams for current and future business process implementations, design, testing, maintenance, and change management activities. 
• Partner with business leaders to drive innovation, ensure open and continuous feedback, and enable equitable handling of competing priorities.
• Deploy a risk assessment and data security governance model for business continuity that meets and complies with real estate Big 4 audit.
• Project Management tracking and leadership updates on optimizations and on-going enhancements, testing, and training.
• Develop and leverage platforms single source of truth; data warehouse management, intelligent BI, dashboarding of analytics and financial report (YSR / SQL).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 Years’ experience as Product Manager for business systems
• Understanding of real estate software applications; Yardi required
• Experience with real estate business and accounting practices; industrial strongly preferred
• Experience supporting change management throughout an organization
• Strong familiarity with theoretical and practical project management, software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills, results oriented
• Strong critical thinking skills to draw well-reasoned fact-based solutions
• Sense of urgency and ability to shift and prioritize work in a changing environment to meet key deadlines
• Detail oriented, analytical, and inquisitive

Other:

Core Competencies – evolving ecosystem

• Business Solution:  Yardi (Voyager & Elevate modules) 
• System Tools:   Microsoft Office 365 Suite (SharePoint, OneDrive & PowerBI), Smartsheet, FreshService, Google Suite, Adobe, DocuSign.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)