Commercial Leasing and Portfolio Associate

What you'll do

• Lead renewal efforts: tenant outreach, key date tracking, business term negotiation, and lease execution.
• Drive vacancy backfill — engage brokers, source prospects, coordinate tours, prepare deal summaries, and maintain disciplined follow-up.
• Maintain an active leasing pipeline covering current vacancies, upcoming expirations, and anticipated turnover.
• Negotiate LOIs, renewals, amendments, and extensions, working directly with brokers, tenants, and outside counsel.
• Build and cultivate proactive relationships with key tenants — understanding their business, their growth plans, and how we can be a useful partner.
• Handle special situation lease work — restructurings, blend-and-extends, recapture-and-release scenarios, and other non-standard transactions.
• Maintain leasing materials: availability schedules, rent comps, target tenant lists, deal pipelines, and leasing updates.
• Lead execution on assigned real estate projects — dark space backfill, building or land dispositions, highest-and-best-use analysis on underutilized parcels, and repositioning of assets.
• Cook up with brokers, attorneys, surveyors, engineers, architects, contractors, municipalities, and other third parties as projects require.
• Prepare project summaries, market research, and decision materials for ownership.
• Support acquisitions on the front end — sourcing leads through your broker network, screening opportunities, and developing leasing assumptions on properties under evaluation.
• Build a meaningful presence in the Nashville brokerage and ownership community — events, tours, and the relationships that compound deal flow over time.

Who you are

• 2-6 years of commercial real estate experience.
• Background in commercial leasing, brokerage (landlord or tenant rep), property management, development, or owner/operator work.
• A closer mentality. You like making things happen, you like the chase, and you measure yourself by deals signed.
• Strong working knowledge of commercial lease economics: LOIs, NNN structures, TI allowances, commissions, options, escalations, and renewal mechanics.
• Able to communicate directly and credibly with tenants, brokers, attorneys, vendors, and ownership — including under pressure and across counterparties.
• Organized; able to manage many deals, prospects, deadlines, and projects in parallel.
• Practical and entrepreneurial — comfortable in a small private real estate company where priorities shift and ownership is close to the work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be located in or willing to relocate to Nashville, TN

What we offer you

• Annual pay range: $70,000 - $80,000 USD
• Total annual compensation including bonuses up to: $90,000 - $120,000 USD