Director, MPC Portfolio Management

North America Sekisui House, LLC is a growing company based in Manhattan Beach, CA, focused on innovative, high-quality residential development in the North American market. The organization is part of the global Sekisui House group, known for its commitment to sustainable building practices and customer-centered design. Team members collaborate across disciplines to deliver communities that prioritize livability, environmental responsibility, and long-term value.

The company offers a professional environment where individuals can contribute to meaningful projects that shape neighborhoods and enhance quality of life.

The Director, Master Planned Communities (MPC) Portfolio Management is responsible for creating, implementing and monitoring business plans, project plans and budgets for the company’s MPC portfolio consistent with direction from the supervisor and NASH senior management.

The Director, MPC Portfolio Management oversees a team of regional portfolio managers and is responsible for developing and fostering effective relationships internally and externally, including with JV operating partners and Sekisui House Group Builders, to ensure smooth execution of project requirements.

• Works with JV operating partners’ regional teams and NASH’s regional development managers to prepare annual project business plans for the MPC portfolio, including opportunities and risks analyses and setting the action plans, budgets, and goals for the upcoming year.
• Monitors business plans and budget implementation jointly with NASH’s development managers and NASH’s joint venture partners to ensure project related decisions are consistent with each project’s strategic goals and that operating activities are compliant with joint venture, project management, and other applicable legal documents.
• Analyzes and applies professional judgment to land use entitlement matters, project planning, design, engineering, construction, home and lot sales, commercial and MF land sales, marketing, development budgets, and cash flow projections.
• Works with JV operating partners and NASH development managers to define and regularly review product segmentation and builder strategies.
• Implements Sekisui House initiatives to integrate Sekisui House affiliated builders into its targeted lot positions in NASH communities.
• Proactively monitors and strives to maintain high levels of quality, accuracy, and process consistency in the development planning efforts. As needed, coordinates planning activities with other functions and stakeholders within the firm.
• Leads acquisition underwriting and coordinating related project financing with the NASH Financing team.
• Monitors real estate development related legislation, regulations, policies and market research to determine applicability to projects.
• Travels for site visits and walk-throughs and to attend key meetings as needed.
• Reviews project documents and physically inspects sites to verify the status of construction and compares actual performance to the approved budgets and schedules.
  
  Upon becoming aware of any actual or anticipated deviation from approved business plans, budgets, schedules, or performance targets, promptly informs the supervisor and senior management, evaluates the underlying causes, and develops and recommends appropriate mitigation and corrective measures.
• Ensures development managers’ proper review and processing of project equity and loan draw requests, including that proper supporting documentation is included and that amounts requested are consistent with the approved project business plans.
• Tracks builder home sales, lot sales, lot deliveries, and inventory levels by community to compare actual performance to…