Commercial Valuation Team Lead

Overview

• World Business Lenders (WBL) is a privately held portfolio lender specializing in real estate-secured business loans for underserved businesses. WBL operates with a fully remote, multinational workforce and an experienced executive leadership team.
• Typically, the work schedule is from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, though additional hours may be required based on business needs.

About the Role

• The Commercial Valuation Team Lead manages a team of commercial valuation analysts and is accountable for the quality and timeliness of the team's value conclusions on US commercial properties, while also valuing complexassignments directly.

Core Responsibilities 

Team leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of commercial valuation analysts.
• Assign and prioritize valuation assignments across the team to meet turnaround times.
• Review the team's valuations and reports for accuracy, support, and consistency before they are finalized.
• Monitor the team's adherence to valuation standards, workflows, and documentation practices.
• Report value conclusions and team progress to management and other stakeholders.

Valuation

• As the department's needs require, value US commercial properties by collecting, analyzing and interpreting market data, mainly through the sales comparison approach.
• Analyze external appraisals and broker price opinions (BPOs), understand their rationale, and compare them with internal analysis to conclude on a value.
• Interview brokers in the subject property's area to gather market feedback.
• Produce valuation reports summarizing the completed analyses and value conclusion