Senior Solutions Analyst
ABOUT VTS
VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing, marketing and asset management platform where deals happen and real-time data comes to life. The VTS Platform captures the largest first-party data source in the industry, which delivers real-time insights that fuel faster, more informed decision making and connections throughout the deal and asset lifecycle. VTS Data, the industry’s only forward-looking market dataset, and VTS Market and Marketplace, the industry’s first integrated online marketing solution, give landlords, brokers, and tenants unparalleled visibility into real-time market information and the direct connectivity to execute deals with greater speed and intelligence at every point in the planning, marketing, leasing, and asset management cycle.
More than 60% of Class A commercial space in the US and 12B square feet of commercial real estate globally is managed on the VTS platform. Our user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals including respected industry leaders like Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, Boston Properties, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
We recently made the Forbes Cloud 100 list of the hottest private cloud companies, and were named one of Crain's best places to work! Our headquarters are in NYC, but we have hubs in other major US cities, Toronto, CA, and London, UK.
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ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Sr. Solutions Analyst has a wealth of commercial real estate domain expertise and helps VTS customers and prospects develop and implement strategies to take their real estate platforms to entirely new levels. Through collaboration with the Revenue, Product, Engineering and Customer Success teams, the Solutions Analysts develop unique solutions that help our customers implement streamlined processes and optimize their revenue generating activities throughout their organizations and extended partner network. The Solutions Analyst is a dynamic player within the VTS sales organization that uses a deep understanding of industry pain points to drive innovation. Our Solutions Analysts work in collaboration with our Product team to ensure that we are constantly innovating the VTS solution and being the spokesperson for our clients and prospects. As a Solutions Analysts, you are advising and teaching our customers about how our products and services drive ROI and efficiency throughout their organizations.
Deliver Success through a Solutions Driven Approach
- Through the VTS platform bring to life the problems uncovered during the discovery process; deliver an effective experiences that relate the customers to the business problems they are trying to solve for, to the software demonstration they are experiencing.
- The SA will need to be comfortable discussing the challenges and needs of the industry with C-Level Executives the VTS team engages with.
- As a Subject Matter Expert, credibility is everything. VTS customers expect engagement in their language and terms with a focus on their unique needs.
- Executes the VTS Sales Methodology as the “solutions expert” in collaboration with the sales teams
- Leads the customer to the solution by focusing on the unique business value and impact to each client by leveraging key success metrics, analysis, and business intelligence tools to motivate action and understanding the impact of status quo
Business Problem Solving and Technical Excellence
- VTS Senior Solutions Analysts drive the discovery process.
- Through thorough engagement with VTS clients and prospects, the Senior Solutions Analyst will take ambiguous and complex business problems, define them through research and collaboration with key stakeholders, and summarizing the needs and goals in a business case that delivers cohesive solutions through innovative solutions
- Understands client workflows and is highly effective at aligning VTS capabilities to the challenges, needs, and goals of customer organizations
- Manage the VTS Solutions demo environment to ensure highest value product demos
- Engages confidently in technical discussions with clients relating to technical and non-technical personas, including forming deployment plans and implementation strategies
- Understands the core technology foundation (architecture, database, security, etc.) for VTS platform and can quickly analyze the tech stack’s of our clients and prospects
- Brings expertise and builds client’s confidence in the selection of VTS solutions by detailing the VTS on-boarding and integration process
- Maintain internal point of view and positioning on competitive solutions, products and services
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- The Senior Solutions Analyst needs to have considerable knowledge and experience working with Commercial Real Estate clients or proptech
- Works with the US Asset Managers and leasing brokers to underwrite, negotiate and execute lease transactions and also periodically correspond with such tenants upon occupancy.
- Collaborates with colleagues and asset representatives to build annual budgets and business plans for senior management review, whilst tracking performance against budget throughout the calendar year.
- Understands the dynamics of the CRE industry including the implication of different company types (CPs, LPs, REITs, Fund Managers, Developers, etc.)
- Adapts conversation and effectively tailors message based on company type and individual persona
- Relates to the specifics of a client situation connecting the learnings from discovery process to the capabilities of VTS
- Navigates effectively discussions relative to the CRE industry and company specific workflows
- Positions VTS Capabilities within the CRE industry technical ecosystem (Yardi, MRI, Argus, Salesforce, etc.)
FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE
- The Senior Solutions Analyst should understand the detailed financial calculations that drive commercial real estate decisions
- Discusses the VTS financial modeling capabilities confidently and convincingly in customer interactions
- Knows the key financial measures of success for each CRE company type and persona
- Understands calculations such as NER and NPV as they relate to potential leases and that lease’s impact on building-level cash flows
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of full-time work experience as an analyst or associate in private equity or investment banking with a focus on real estate investment
- Sophisticated written and verbal communication skills, especially an ability to communicate technical / product value to a business audience
- Proven ability to deliver compelling and engaging presentations to key decision makers and executives
- Ability to quickly adapt in client meetings to position the product based on value drivers
- Strong problem-solving skills that enable you to identify, deliver, and create the best client solutions
- Experience with CRE ERP / Accounting Systems a plus
- Database / SQL / Systems Integration and deployment experience a plus
- An intrinsic curiosity and desire to always learn more
- A positive, team-first attitude is a must
- Ability to travel up to 50%
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