Team Lead ( Lease Abstraction)

Designation: Team Lead

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and provide guidance to a team of Lease Analysts, fostering a high-performance, detail-oriented, and collaborative work environment.
• Manage the team's workload, prioritize assignments, and allocate resources effectively to meet global deadlines and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Own the onboarding and training of new team members and actively participate in the development and career progression of junior analysts.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex lease abstraction and data management issues, providing expert resolution and direction.
• Lead the abstraction and detailed analysis of the most complex, high-value lease agreements to accurately extract and codify relevant terms, clauses, rent escalations, and critical dates.
• Establish and maintain robust Quality Assurance (QA) standards for lease abstraction, performing detailed reviews of the team's work to ensure zero-defect data accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate directly with global business leaders to ensure timely, consistent, and accurate lease data management across all regions (NA, EMEA, APAC).

Process Optimization & Strategy

• Drive the strategic development and continuous optimization of global lease abstraction processes, procedures, and best practice documentation to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for lease management systems (like MRI or similar SaaS platforms), contributing to the optimization and configuration of solutions to improve performance and productivity.
• Work with global and local leadership to ensure consistency in approach across regions and provide strategic insights into regional and global lease management needs and risks.
• Lead and execute special, high-priority lease-related projects, ensuring compliance with internal governance and external regulatory requirements.

Technical Expertise:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in lease abstraction, lease administration, or a related real estate/financial field, with a proven track record of managing complex agreements.
• Strong experience with lease management software and SaaS offerings (such as MRI or similar platforms) is mandatory.
• Expert-level proficiency in reviewing and interpreting complex legal lease language, including commercial, retail, and industrial leases, and identifying key financial and operational terms.

Leadership & Collaboration

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership, supervisory, or team lead role is required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and mentor team members, fostering skill development and accountability.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and collaboration skills for working effectively with cross-functional and global leadership teams.
• Highly detail-oriented with an uncompromising focus on quality, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• A Problem Solving, 'Can-do' Mindset and a strong client-centric focus.
• Experience with other business SaaS offerings and process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) is a plus.
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership, supervisory, or team lead role is required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and mentor team members, fostering skill development and accountability.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and collaboration skills for working effectively with cross-functional and global leadership teams.
• Highly detail-oriented with an uncompromising focus on quality, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• A Problem Solving, 'Can-do' Mindset and a strong client-centric focus.

Benefits:

• Ability to learn leading technical / industry standards and technologies
• Hybrid working arrangements (2/3 days in the office)
• Annual performance-related bonus
• 6x Flexi Anyday: knock 2.5 hours off your day on any workday
• Engaging, fun & inclusive culture: check out the MRI Software APAC Insta feed and stories!

MRI continues to strive to amaze as a global industry leader in real estate software. Whether you are joining as a new pride member or bringing your expertise back, your talent is important to maintaining MRI’s high client experience standard and continuing our growth in the PropTech space.  

Amazing growth takes amazing employees. Are you up to the challenge? 

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