Job: Director, Commercial Applications
Location: Houston, TX – onsite 3 days a week
Duration: Direct Hire/Perm
Rate: Up to $200k
Description:
Responsibilities
As the Commercial Applications Director, you will be primarily focused on leading and supporting Technology initiatives, either supported and developed internally or externally. This role will assist with requirements analysis, process documentation and user acceptance testing while working with internal IT or external vendor technology teams and firm-wide business users. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Understand critical business functions and work with business personnel to understand pain points
- Lead and support discovery meetings with cross-functional stakeholders to share ideas and findings
- Document results of discovery and requirements analysis
- Create opportunities for economies of scale
- Identify business process optimization and efficiencies
- Provide recommendations to Supervisor(s) on proper course of action for a given process using discovery findings as support
- Work with Supervisor(s) to determine what tools are best suited to produce solutions for the business need
- Evaluate existing technology solutions and support growth in tech stack offered and supported by BTG
- Collaborate with Supervisor(s) on project management efforts
- Support development of project plans by using optimal methodology
- Update project plans and monitor project statuses
- Undertake appropriate actions to minimize risks and failures
- Assist in developing and implementing solutions, including user acceptance testing
- Develop and review training material of deployed tools to enable business users to be self-sufficient
- Support product owners for implemented tools, systems, or processes
- Coordinate with stakeholders and Supervisor(s) to construct operational plan, scalable operating procedures and establish monitoring strategy
- Assist with change management to properly offboard to appropriate process owners
- Maintain and expand knowledge of current business technology initiatives to map business needs to those solutions
- Conduct external research of real estate industry best practices (where applicable) and determine if requirements are in line with the market. Make recommendations where appropriate
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited institution is strongly preferred; Masters in Business Administration is a plus
- Five or more years of experience in event coordination/event administrative support, customer service, hospitality, or travel industry. Tech office environment preferred
- Ten or more years of experience assisting with implementing new technologies, including software testing and training
- Five or more years in the Commercial Real Estate Industry
- Five or more years of experience with CMMS tools and other property technology. PRISM experience preferred
- Strong ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical users
- Ability to execute change management while collaborating with key stakeholders across the firm
- Ability to create a project plan and manage it. Agile experience desired
- Knowledge of the following technology products/platforms: Jira, Microsoft, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Excel/Power Query, and flow chart software (Miro or similar); eagerness to learn new business technology tools to utilize as solutions or collaborate with IT to develop
- Ability to create technical writeups, summaries and reports using proper format, punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
- Working knowledge of the real estate industry and real estate technology
- Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders in a professional, courteous manner
- Unwavering commitment to integrity, the firm’s guiding principles and our leadership principles
- PMP Certification preferred
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.