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About You:You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!About Us:Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.
Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too! Avison Young has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 13th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation!
Overview
Working independently, this role leverages strong data management, technical expertise, and team leadership to support Avison Young Technologies and the Market Intelligence team. The focus is on maintaining high-quality data, enabling insights, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive adoption of proprietary platforms.
This contract role will cover an 12-month maternity leave
Responsibilities
Working closely with the broader Market Intelligence team in Canada and ensure they have access to our technology tools and data.
Manage and support a team of analysts responsible for collecting and storing lease and sale availabilities in the internal database, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness.
Become a power user of proprietary and third-party platforms, including Property Intelligence, Availability Manager, ThoughtSpot, and Snowflake.
Supporting the development testing and roll out of data-based technology products.
Building and guiding a data team and developing and optimizing best-in-class daily data collection, enhancement, and utilization.
Instilling a sense of ownership in our data team to ensure they are capturing every angle of the market they cover each day from a sale, lease, development, availability, tenant, owner perspective.
Act as a player-coach — leading and developing a strong data team while also contributing daily market data to help make our platform best-in-class.
Managing, growing and optimizing processes to consolidate data sources, utilize automated workflows and engage with local resources to capture and enhance data related to both real estate market activities including micro data on properties, companies, leases, sales, scoop and availabilities and real estate adjacent activities.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree required
5+ year experience in commercial real estate or real estate course work preferred
1-2 years managing people
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft excel
Working knowledge of SQL for data querying and transformation, and Python for data manipulation, automation
Proven ability to present using different digital mediums
Passionate about cities and real estate
Must be able to handle flexibility in task management while having a keen eye for detail
In-person (Toronto or Mississauga office) Reporting directly to the Director of Market Intelligence (Thomas Forr)
Workplace Type
On-Site
Our Equal Opportunity Commitment
Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity.
The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.
Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
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