Job Title
Portfolio Strategy Lead
Job Description Summary
Job Description
The purpose of this position is to lead the achievement of strategic goals and deliverables for multiple clients within a large, complex, and geographically diverse real estate portfolios.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Proactively support the account team in client engagements to ensure excellence and consistency.
• Assists in solving complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Provide service excellence by understanding key client business issues, supplementing standard techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating, and validating analysis and developing/delivering recommendations
• Support the delivery team and their work across multiple workstreams, and own the day-to-day relationships necessary for delivery excellence
• Technical presenter - Conceptualizes the framework for collecting data, analyzing the data, and translating it into a story
• Innovative-inquisitive, challenges status quo, thinks outside the box; researcher motivated to become thought leader
• Designs and delivers frameworks to proactively facilitate senior client leadership workshops for strategic development and other decisioning
• Subject matter expertise - designs integrated workplace/human experience/portfolio solutions in support of business objectives
• Financial acumen - designs the framework for financial modelling and translates the data analyzed into a story
Qualifications
• Must have experience in areas such as: Portfolio Optimization, Cost Optimization, Portfolio Strategy related to Mergers & Acquisitions, Workplace Strategy, etc
• Extensive experience and expertise using structured consulting methodology related to scoping, framing, and delivering consulting engagements that delight FORTUNE1000 clients
• Candidates with Big 4-type Consulting background are strongly encouraged to apply
• Experience influencing and relationship management at the senior executive level
• Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to develop conclusions and recommendations
• Ability to multi-task and work both in a team and independently in a high-pressure deadline driven environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex matters daily
• Capacity to deal with ambiguity as well as address and solve complex problems
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal
• Possess excellent customer service and interpersonal relationship skills
Education and Experience
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university.
• 8+ years of experience successfully leading and delivering consulting engagements for occupier clients related to Commercial Real Estate Strategy
Certificates and/or Licenses
• Real estate license (where required by state law) Professional certification, professional designations (e.g. BCCR, CCIM, CPM, MAI) and/or graduate level training in commercial real estate is desirable.
