Regional Manager

What This Role Actually Demands

This is a portfolio-level operations role. The Regional Manager position at Asset Living requires sharp financial analysis, people management at scale, and the ability to hold site teams accountable across multiple properties simultaneously. If you're strongest when reading a T-12, spotting a delinquency trend before it compounds, or coaching a Community Manager through a difficult performance conversation, this role uses those skills constantly.

Asset Living operates as a third-party management firm with a broad portfolio spanning multifamily, affordable housing, build-to-rent, and student housing. The Oklahoma City territory fits within that national footprint, which means you're working within established systems and reporting structures while still owning outcomes for your sites.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

On the financial side, you'll develop and monitor annual operating budgets, review income and expense variances monthly, and push NOI performance through both cost control and revenue strategy. You'll approve vendor invoices, oversee large project contracts, and make sure property closeouts hit ownership reporting deadlines accurately.

Personnel management takes up a significant portion of the job. You'll screen and hire site staff, document performance issues properly, coordinate with HR on terminations, and approve timesheets across your portfolio. Salary increase requests from Community Managers route through you before going up the chain.

On the leasing side, you'll build out yearly marketing plans, audit staff leasing technique, and drive occupancy and retention strategies at each site. That includes resident retention programming and making sure follow-up and lease documentation processes are tight.

Administratively, you're the point person for property emergencies, maintenance responsiveness, and regular site inspections. You're not doing punch list work yourself, but you're accountable for making sure it gets done and that the property stays in condition.

What Separates Strong Candidates

Regional managers who struggle in third-party management environments typically underestimate how much owner communication and reporting discipline matters. Asset Living's clients are the asset owners, and the Regional Manager is the face of that relationship at the operations level. Candidates who come from fee management backgrounds already understand this dynamic. Those coming from owner-operator roles will need to adjust to reporting expectations that go beyond internal metrics.

• Proven experience overseeing multiple properties simultaneously as a regional or area manager
• Strong budget development and variance analysis skills
• Demonstrated ability to coach, document, and when necessary, terminate site-level staff appropriately
• Working knowledge of fair housing compliance and risk management practices
• Experience with leasing strategy across occupancy cycles, including traffic generation and concession management
• Familiarity with capital improvement planning and vendor oversight

Asset Living holds IREM's Accredited Management Organization designation and ranks in the NMHC top 50. For candidates who want to grow within a large third-party platform, this role sits at the level where performance gets noticed and portfolio expansion follows.