Global Real Estate Portfolio Manager

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking a Regional Portfolio Manager to manage a diverse real estate portfolio. You will collaborate closely with leadership and various teams to drive strategy and optimize portfolio performance. The ideal candidate has significant experience in a global setting and excels in project management and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience in a global environment.
• Experience in mentoring junior team members.
• Strong organization skills and exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage regional portfolio and support project delivery.
• Drive effective decision making and manage risks.
• Guide due diligence of real estate strategies.

Skills

Consultative problem-solving

Collaboration across functions

Attention to detail

Project management

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or finance

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture opportunities. BCG helps clients with total transformation—enabling growth, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. We blend digital and human capabilities with diverse, global teams that bring deep industry and functional expertise to spark change. We work in a collaborative model across the firm and client organizations to generate results that allow clients to thrive.

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What You'll Do

BCG has a real estate portfolio of more than 4M square feet across 100+ cities, with ongoing real estate activity as we grow and diversify and evolve our workplace of the future. We have high expectations of our office experience, focused on forward-thinking office design, a human-centered employee experience, and technology innovation.

The Regional Portfolio Manager will be an integral part of the Portfolio Insights & Governance team to provide insightful analyses that inform the strategic direction of real estate actions, support evolution of BCG’s real estate portfolio strategy, and drive a more sustainable global portfolio. Specifically, you will be a business partner to the EMESA Region Lead to proactively manage a regional portfolio and support project delivery program managers through the real estate life cycle, from strategy development to real estate approval and implementation. This position is built around teamwork, meeting customer needs, identifying trends and opportunities in the portfolio, and developing new ways of driving change in a culturally diversified portfolio.

Key responsibilities include, among others:

• Partner closely with the Region Lead to shape portfolio initiatives and deliver compelling, executive-ready presentations to senior leadership across office, system, and regional levels
• Strengthen GRE seat-at-the-table with senior leadership with rich, data-driven insights on portfolio trends, performance, and future trajectory
• Deepen cross-functional collaboration with Finance, by proactively fostering partnerships, enhancing transparency, and aligning key finance initiatives across the region
• Drive effective decision making and manage risk for the portfolio, ensuring consistency in quality and depth of analysis for each project
• Guide comprehensive due diligence of real estate strategies that balance business priorities within global parameters and regional nuances for flexibility and cost
• Manage business case development, from strategy planning to designing a compelling story
• Evolve portfolio management via digitization and other tools, uncovering opportunities to proactively optimize portfolio
• Partner with the Region Lead to strengthen team effectiveness through collaboration across the Regional Delivery team, ensuring the team remains coordinated to deliver on stakeholder requirements

What You're Good At

A successful candidate will be able to design a compelling story, structure and solve problems, communicate solutions, and navigate cultural nuances, as well as integrate seamlessly with a global BCG team. Specifically, you possess:

• A consultative approach to problem solving
• A drive for collaboration across multiple functions, disciplines and seniority levels
• Passion to make an impact through creative and insightful analyses
• A keen eye for detail, with a structured approach
• Excellence in tactical project management with strategic mindset
• An innate ability to build relationships within a team and with stakeholders

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or related field; consulting experience a plus
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience, preferably in a global environment
• Experience in mentorship of junior team members
• Experience in collaborating with finance teams, understanding the importance of their planning processes and how Finance and Real Estate partners to ensure the best outcome for the business
• Established record of stakeholder management experience, especially storyboarding to effectively communicate (real estate) strategies to senior leadership
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organization skills
• Ability to synthesize data into actionable results; experience with advanced analytics a plus
• Strong computer skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Who You'll Work With

The Regional Portfolio Manager will work primarily with the Region lead and Project Delivery team members on a day-to-day basis. Due to the functional nature of the work, the role will also interact with various GRE work streams, other global functions such as Technology and Finance, and senior stakeholders for GRE portfolio level initiatives as well as individual office projects. Our truly global team is highly collaborative, strategic, and solutions-oriented. While we are located in various regions (Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Delhi, Dubai, and the US), we still work very closely, learn from, and challenge each other daily.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify.