Strategy & Operations Manager, Strategic Partnerships

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ABOUT REALTOR.COM

The home search starts online, but the real estate industry is often optimized for in-person, one-on-one service. That's a fantastic experience once you connect with the right professional, but finding the right fit isn't always a smooth process. Realtor.com built a nationwide real-time data and technology platform combining cutting edge deep learning, business analytics and human intuition with the latest web, mobile and digital telephony technologies to enable our team of professionals, and thousands of real estate agents and brokers, to make sure we connect every home buyer with the right agent at the right time to help them in their home buying journey.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a member of the Strategic Partnerships team, you will work collaboratively across functions in a highly matrixed environment to launch new partnership opportunities, with the goal of driving growth and engagement with Realtor's products and services. This is a highly visible, strategic position, working across internal teams to drive revenue growth by optimizing our partner network. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, sound business judgment, along with the ability to think creatively and work independently. We're looking for someone who has a demonstrated ability to think strategically and thrives on tackling complex and ambiguous problems and challenges. The Strategic Partnerships team sits within the COO organization and works closely with strategy and corporate development. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Strategic Partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Design the processes and systems needed to enable the growth and scale of our partnerships program, including our reporting and partner management infrastructure

• Manage initiatives that focus on new projects and process optimization; Initiatives will require end-to-end execution from initial assessment through recommendation and implementation

• Cross-functional alignment of goals and execution (i.e., product, FP&A, accounting, analytics, marketing)

• Thoroughly analyze and evaluate internal business plans for strategic planning

• Perform financial forecasting and market analysis to develop competitive intelligence strategy.

• Identify opportunities for automation and system improvements

• Author and deliver executive level reporting, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.

• Build and/or maintain operational dashboards and reporting suite to track, manage, and provide valuable insights on metrics and KPIs.

• Partner with leadership on monthly, annual, and long-range strategy, budget, and forecast planning

• Support M&A analyses as appropriate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. MBA preferred, but not required

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, sales strategy, product strategy or a high growth start up

• Excellent communication skills both oral and written is crucial

• Experience executing complex strategic and operational initiatives with solid business judgment

• Excellent analytical skills

• Strong knowledge of business and financial concepts

• Quick learner; willing to dive in and get her/his hands dirty

• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct analysis, and make strategic recommendations

• Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, including creating complex Excel models

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment

• Advanced Salesforce and Excel skills required

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Travel may be required

What We Offer

Working with a highly-motivated team with a proven track record of success.

Casual work environment and recognition for your hard work!

Competitive pay and benefits.

Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability, and Life Insurance plus Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Accounts

Investment in growing your career and providing you the opportunity to have an immediate and massive impact in a growing company with a revolutionary business model

Free snacks! Alongside fun events and amazing co-workers!

*No relocation is provided for this vacancy, local candidates preferred.  Must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer. The position requires prolonged standing or sitting and repetitive hand and wrist motion. Operates phones, computers, fax machines, copiers, and other office equipment.

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Diversity is important to us, therefore, realtor.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, realtor.com will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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Location

Cool downtown office nestled in the bars and restaurants of East 6th Street

An Insider's view of Realtor.com

How does your team reward individual success?

We reward success through recognition and appreciation. We often celebrate wins loudly and with fun events. It's one of the best parts of our culture!

Fluker

Consumer Experience Manager

What projects are you most excited about?

I'm most excited about how we're scaling our outreach to consumers which allows us to help more people every day. Not only that, but I love the pace we have in testing new consumer experiences!

Diane

Senior Product Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I’ve been with Realtor.com for exactly one year and I’ve grown a great deal. I’ve expanded my literacy from AWS to Python to React Native and been mentored all along the way.

Yufeng

Senior Software Engineer

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

With 100 million unique users to Realtor.com a month, we play a leading role in the world's largest real estate network, sitting uniquely in this position of big data, while still being a mid-sized company that is able to democratize the information throughout the business. It’s an incredible position to be in.

Anne

Vice President, Product Management

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

Our consumer success model is best in class, yet we continuously strive to build even better services and products for for the Realtor.com consumer.

James

Senior Training Manager

What are Realtor.com Perks + Benefits

Realtor.com Benefits Overview

You have an important role to play at Realtor.com—one that impacts the way everyone finds home. That’s why our culture is deeply rooted in both enabling and celebrating your skills, knowledge, and excellence. From a comprehensive array of benefits to inclusive Employee Resource Groups and tailored learning and development opportunities, we’ll give you what you need to set and exceed your most ambitious professional goals.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We love our neighbors and think it important to give back to those in need. Our employees come together to volunteer and donate to local and national causes near and dear to their hearts.
Partners with nonprofits
From our volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity to our employee charitable gift matching per employee, our commitment to our communities is unwavering.
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Flexible work schedule
Austin Tech Center employees have flexible start and end times.
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mandatory company-wide training on Inclusive leadership and inclusive culture.
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Our Employee Resource Groups invite our employees as they bring their whole, authentic selves to work and engage with one another in taking action to build a more diverse and inclusive work space.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Unbiased candidate sourcing, diverse candidate pools and removal of referral source data in support of unbiased candidate selection is our approach.
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Employees can contribute up to $2750 annually to their FSA.
Disability insurance
Realtor.com offers both short term and long term disability programs upon your date of hire at no cost to you.
Dental insurance
Realtor.com® offers two dental plans through Aetna. The Aetna Dental PPO allows flexibility to see in and out-of-network providers, while the Aetna Dental DMO is a low-cost, in-network only plan.
Vision insurance
Vision coverage is available through the Aetna Vision Preferred plan. It offers coverage for a variety of services both in and out-of-network.
Health insurance
For the 2021 plan year, there is a choice of four medical plans offered through Aetna and Kaiser.
Life insurance
Realtor.com® provides life insurance coverage for both Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment for all eligible employees.
Pet insurance
Coverage is available for accidents, illnesses and preventive care.
Wellness programs
Employees can access unlimited, on-demand, and personalized streaming videos on the topics of exercise, mindfulness, nutrition, sleep, and financial well-being.
Mental health benefits
News Corp and realtor.com provide a variety of choices for serving and supporting your emotional wellbeing needs.
Transgender health care benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
At realtor.com®, there are two retirement saving accounts available; the Traditional 401(k) and the Roth 401(k). You may choose to contribute to either plan to participate in the employer matching.
401(K) matching
The News Corp 401(k) Savings Plan provides a matching program of 100% of the first 1% and 50% of the next 5% to help you make the most of your money.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Realtor.com offers charitable gift matching of up to $500 per employee annually.
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
A dependent care FSA reimburses you for eligible child and adult care expenses such as day care, before/after school care, nursery school, preschool, and summer day camp.
Generous parental leave
Paid Parental Leave to include bonding, adoption, & surrogacy (20 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers)
Family medical leave
There may come a time when you need to begin a leave of absence to cover needs such as disability, caregiver leave, Family Member Leave Act (FMLA). MetLife will be your main point of contact.
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Annual events including friends and family members are a company highlight.
Fertility benefits
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Realtor.com reimburses up to $5,000 annually, for graded courses/degree programs from accredited institutes. We also offer 50% reimbursement up to $2500 per year for job skill programs/certifications.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Our HomeGrown Mentoring Program is available for all full time employees.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training

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