Vice President Consulting and Research

We are looking for an experienced real estate thought leader to advise and grow our land development, home building, and rental housing research membership and consulting clients and supervise our small team in Houston.

We need a leader who can analyze and articulate Houston’s housing demand and supply factors to our clients, who run significant housing development and investment businesses in Houston. The leader will service our research clients and generate additional research and consulting revenue opportunities. The leader will be supported by our large research and consulting teams nationally. Research or consulting expertise, but not both, are required. Knowledge of the housing sector is necessary.

Our ideal candidate is a detail-oriented, autonomous thought leader and exceptional manager who will be proud to represent the John Burns culture/ brand and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Business Development: Through demonstrated knowledge, you will generate research memberships and consulting studies with homebuilders, rental home and apartment developers, land developers, capital sources, the public sector, and other key clients. Ideally, you can bring a client Rolodex in on day one.
• Client Interaction: Engage consistently and deeply with current and prospective clients and industry professionals through in-person meetings, speaking at industry events, and strategic follow-up via email/ phone.
• Thought leadership: This person will represent our firm at key internal and external industry events and engage with various media sources to build our brand. Building relationships with local publications or relevant organizations is important. Our leader will keep a pulse on real estate trends and publish thought leadership via relevant social channels and in our publications.
• Project management: Oversee the successful delivery of consulting projects or research reports, ensuring quality, timeliness, and client satisfaction. Be willing to utilize unique technology platforms (such as AI) to create outstanding deliverables.
• Deliverables: Contribute to, review, and teach the team to produce high-quality written analyses and visually compelling reports with data tables, graphs, and charts.
• Financial management: Set and manage budgets, monitor financial performance, and ensure profitability.
• People management: Recruit, train, and retain top talent. Develop succession plans and build leaders who could one day be you. Be a culture carrier for the team and promote John Burns's core values. Routinely engage with the team via 1:1s to ensure project deadlines are met and any team hurdles are problem-solved. Build a strong rapport with team members.

Education/Certification:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in real estate, finance, economics, or a related field is preferred.

Requirements:

• Minimum eight years of residential real estate market research experience, analysis, and fieldwork or equivalent years of extensive industry‐related expertise that is transferable to this position.
• Advanced software skills: PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook
• Organized, reliable, trustworthy, dedicated individual
• The candidate must be in the Houston market.

If you enjoy challenges, take great pride in all the work you complete, and enjoy working with a very smart, fast-paced team that supports each other, this is the dynamic environment for you.

Cover letters are required and should describe when and how the candidate has handled an unstructured task successfully in the past, including the steps taken and associated rationale.

Compensation and title will be based on skills, experience, and abilities, which can vary by person.

We cannot hire anyone who requires sponsorship to work in the United States.

What we can offer

Join our team at John Burns Research and Consulting, LLC, a leading provider of independent subscription research and customized consulting services for the US housing industry. Our founder, John Burns, started the company in 2001 with the aim of revolutionizing the housing market analysis. Today, we have a team of highly passionate research analysts and consultants nationwide who work together to provide the most trusted source of US housing analysis and consulting services.

We offer our full-time employees $12,500 towards our comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, and flexible spending accounts. You will also receive four weeks of personal time off, plus nine paid holidays.

Our retirement plan includes company contributions of 4% of your salary and profit sharing to your 401K, even if you do not contribute.

We also offer great opportunities and personal benefits, such as tuition reimbursement, training opportunities, flexible schedules for many positions, and the ability to grow and expand your career. We believe in giving back to our community, so we have a charitable contribution program that includes company matching to your favorite charities.

At John Burns Research and Consulting, LLC, we are proud of our award-winning culture, which includes recognition as Great Places to Work, Gallup Employee Engagement, Certified Evergreen by the Tugboat Institute, and Orange County Best Places to Work. If you want to be part of a well-established, dynamic, and high-performing team that takes it to the next level, this is the perfect opportunity for you.