Community Manager (14-Month Contract)

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Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and passion. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.  

We are a leading global real estate investor, developer and manager. We combine our capital with our capabilities to create real estate that strengthens economies and communities. By prioritizing people, partnerships and places, we generate meaningful returns for OMERS members, enhance value for our capital partners and create a brighter world for our customers.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

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Being a passionate and experienced customer service champion, as the Community Manager, you will partner with property and sales teams to deliver building events and programs geared toward maximizing the sense of community.  Always innovating and identifying compelling place making activities, you will influence positive customer experiences every day.

You will be a key member of an engaged, high performing team — part of a world-class, winning culture that prioritizes people development and focuses on long-term growth. We take great pride in leading the industry by earning respect through every interaction, every day. We go above and beyond to protect and grow relationships by anticipating needs, being honest and considerate, and valuing customers as genuine partners.

(This is a temporary, fixed-term position with an expected duration of approximately 14 months)

You Will Be Responsible For

Program Innovation and Event Delivery

• Elevate the Customer experience for all occupants of Oxford's office buildings within Toronto
• Research and apply best in class hospitality level of engagement to differentiate the Oxford experience for our customers in Office.
• Leverage scale of portfolio and regional budget to develop and deploy city-wide on-premises and virtual events to engage and develop community
• Liaise with key customer contacts to collaborate and develop effective occupant engagement
• Strategize, create, source and negotiate partnerships that drive engagement and potential revenue through lobby and onsite engagements at our properties. 
• Partner with retail customers and neighboring businesses to deliver unique customer experiences
• Specifically develop promotions/programs targeted at driving sales/promotion/engagement to our retail customers
• Manage Not for Profit / Charitable relationships, programs, and activations

• Ensure site teams have necessary training and resources to execute programs
• Leverage onsite amenities, retailers and multi-channel marketing programs to drive customer engagement across entire occupant population
• Be a resource to our retail customers to offer marketing expertise to drive further alignment and partnership

 

Marketing, Branding and Public Relations

• In partnership with corporate and site partners, establish quarterly marketing initiatives that will maximize exposure within budget parameters
• Collaborate with site teams to ensure property marketing collaterals are up to date reflecting community building initiatives, providing communication and event templates across all properties
• Coordinate with local groups, including Business Improvement Associations and media, to ensure regular and broad exposure, leveraging all opportunities for positive promotion

 

Research and analytics

• Create frictionless feedback opportunities for customers to continuously improve, refine, recreate engagements with customers
• Track budget on a monthly / quarterly basis for region and properties
• Provide analysis on effectiveness, ROI, and recommendations

 

Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in marketing, communications and/or customer service; event planning is an asset
• Outstanding time management and organization skills; able to handle multiple priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate internally and externally and with all levels of management with professionalism, courtesy, and credibility
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office Programs and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Cross-functional team player
• Proficient in budget and event management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Post-secondary degree with a Marketing (Advertising/Public Relations), Communications, or Business major
• Ability to develop creative, engaging, and original content and displays
• Highly motivated with a positive can-do attitude
• Knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and web metrics
• Ability to work to deadlines and stay calm in a pressured environment
• Some weekend and evening shifts may be required

 

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

 

The expected salary range for this position is $86,000 - $100,000 per year.

 

You may also be eligible to receive an annual Incentive Award pursuant to our Short-term Incentive plan and our Long-Term Incentive plan (if applicable), and to participate in our group benefits and retirement plans – details on these elements of compensation are included within OMERS & Oxford offer letters.

 

Oxford's purpose is to strengthen economies and communities through real estate.

Our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the customers we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

 

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used to support certain stages of the OMERS recruitment process. While AI assists us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain central to our candidate experience.