Real Estate Strategy & Operations Senior Manager

About the role

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Responsibilities

• Develop real estate portfolio optimization strategies
• Design Corporate Real Estate (CRE), Facilities Management (FM), or workplace operating models, organizational structures, and service delivery models
• Deliver CRE and FM outsourcing/insourcing consulting services, including strategy development, contract evaluation, and RFI/RFP process management
• Enhance CRE, FM, or workplace business processes and workflows across the corporate real estate life cycle (portfolio management, transaction management, design & construction, space & move management, facilities/amenities management, etc.)
• Design and implement workplace strategies, digital workplace technology/smart building/IoT strategies, and workforce mobility/"work from anywhere" programs
• Deliver CRE, FM, or workplace technology platform advisory services, including strategy development, requirements development, vendor/solution evaluation, and implementation support
• Lead engagement planning, day-to-day management of engagement teams and day-to-day interactions with clients
• Define deliverable structure and content, and direct on-time, quality delivery of work products
• Support the development of "thought ware" and "point-of-view" documents and participate in public speaking events
• Perform role of counselor and coach, and provide input and guidance into staffing, recruitment and retention activities
• Identify potential engagement opportunities; develop proposals for Deloitte's consultative services and participate in sales presentations/pitch activities

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree; MBA preferred
• 12+ years' consulting experience
• Professional services background required
• Experience within multiple relevant domains, including: Corporate real estate operations improvement, operating model, outsourcing, workplace strategy, digital workplace, portfolio strategy, corporate real estate M&A
• Management consulting and/or industry experience across corporate real estate and facilities management required
• Understanding of key corporate real estate industry trends
• Business development/sales experience
• Ability to interact at all levels of the client organization
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong financial, data and analytical skills (Microsoft Excel, SQL) including business case development experience
• Proven track record of successfully delivering professional services
• Ability to travel up to 50%, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited sponsorship may be available

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or other advanced degree (Master's or PhD) with a focus on real estate, workplace, engineering, or architecture
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
• Eagerness to mentor and counsel junior staff
• Language fluency (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin)
• Familiarity with real estate related information technologies and platforms: such as Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems, Smart Building/Digital Workplace ecosystems
• Experience with analytics to evaluate and optimize business processes

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $171,600 - $338,300. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.