Clock Tower Realty is a full‑service real‑estate brokerage based in Winter Garden, Florida. They help clients across the buying and selling process of residential property, offering localized expertise, marketing support, and client education.
The Broker / Managing Partner will provide leadership for the brokerage, oversee business operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive growth of the agent team and revenue. This role combines hands‑on brokerage work (listing/selling properties) with strategic business management, marketing oversight, and team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the licensed Broker responsible for all real‑estate brokerage activities, ensuring all transactions comply with national/state licensing laws and industry best practices.
- Set the firm’s strategic direction: develop business plans, growth targets, market expansion strategies, and new service offerings.
- Lead and manage the sales/agent team: recruit, train, mentor agents, monitor performance, establish KPIs, and foster a high‑performance culture.
- Oversee the marketing and brand presence of the firm: including digital marketing, listings exposure, client experience, promotional campaigns and market positioning.
- Manage the operational infrastructure: systems for listing management, CRM, client funnels, reporting, office processes, and administrative support.
- Maintain financial oversight: budget planning, forecasting, profitability tracking, cost management, revenue streams (commissions, referral income, etc.).
- Ensure client satisfaction and service standards: monitor client feedback, testimonials, agent performance, quality of service delivery.
- Cultivate and maintain local market expertise: stay current on the Winter Garden / Central Florida real‑estate market trends, pricing dynamics, neighborhood data and emerging opportunities.
- Actively participate in high‑level client transactions: personally handle key listings and sales, negotiate offers, coordinate closing processes and represent the firm in complex deals.
- Uphold compliance and risk management: ensure contracts, disclosures, state licensing, ethical standards, continuing education requirements are met for both yourself and your agents.
- Build relationships with partners, lenders, developers, vendors, and community stakeholders to strengthen network and referral base.
Requirements
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Valid Florida real‑estate broker’s license (or ability to obtain).
- Several years (typically 5-10+) of successful real‑estate brokerage experience, ideally including supervisory or leadership roles.
- Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and growing business volume.
- Strong leadership, coaching, team‑building, and people‑management capabilities.
- Solid business acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, P&L management, and operational processes.
- Excellent marketing and client‑service orientation; strong communication (written & verbal), negotiation, and relationship‑building skills.
- Deep understanding of the Central Florida residential real‑estate market (Winter Garden / Orlando region) and ability to analyze market data and trends.
- High ethical standards, integrity, and professionalism.
- Comfortable balancing hands‑on brokerage work with strategic business management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience scaling a boutique brokerage or managing multiple agents/teams.
- Familiarity with modern real‑estate technology: CRM systems, lead‑generation platforms, digital marketing analytics, listing syndication tools.
- Strong referral and network base in the local market.
- Established personal brand or reputation in the market.
Performance Metrics
- Growth in gross commission income (GCI) year‑on‑year.
- Agent productivity: average listings per agent, average days on market, list‑to‑sale price ratio.
- Client satisfaction rates / referral volumes / online reviews.
- Operating cost control and profitability of the brokerage.
- Market share growth in designated geography.
Benefits
- Office located in Winter Garden, FL (with flexible/remote work possibilities for parts of the role).
- Compensation model may include base salary plus profit‑share / commission splits / equity in the firm (to be negotiated).
- Opportunity to lead and shape a boutique, client‑focused brokerage firm with brand‑building potential.
- Support staff and infrastructure provided; ability to build out team.