Senior Consultant- Real Estate Advisory Health

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join their Real Estate Consulting team. This role focuses on helping health and social care clients navigate complex real estate investment opportunities. You will leverage your expertise in business case development, project management, and data analysis to drive impactful decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and a passion for client engagement, ensuring that each project meets the highest standards. Join a dynamic team dedicated to fostering a productive and inclusive work environment where your contributions will make a real difference.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Support for work-life balance

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and developing healthcare estate and infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of the HM Treasury 5 case model for business case development.

Responsibilities

• Prepare business cases and property strategies for healthcare clients.
• Engage with clients to build relationships and support investment decisions.

Skills

Business Case Writing Skills

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Financial Analysis

Change Management

Data Analysis

Persuasion and Influencing

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Project Management Qualification (e.g., Prince 2, MSP)

Tools

MS Excel

Power BI

Job description

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to work in our Real Estate Consulting (REC) team based in Glasgow. We work with health and social care clients nationally to identify and test the feasibility of real estate investment opportunities; helping clients to build up the case for change and make the best real estate investment decisions.

The successful applicant will ideally have experience in planning and developing healthcare estate and infrastructure projects and programmes. In addition, you will have supported the development of healthcare estate strategies, and authored business cases using the HM Treasury 5 case model and have a robust understanding of the business case development stages from Project Initiation to Full Business Case.

You & Your Background

We are seeking an individual who is highly motivated, flexible and who has excellent communication skills. You will be able to engage with clients at all levels and be passionate about nurturing such relationships. Specifically, you will:

• Be experienced in the preparation of business cases (SOC / OBC / FBC), estate / property strategies, property target operating models, and change management.
• Hold a relevant real estate industry qualification or experience.
• Have experience in a client side and consultancy environment.
• Have exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be confident in managing client relationships.
• Be financially literate, with a good commercial understanding and financial analysis capability.
• Have the ability to understand and combine commercial, strategic, and operational perspectives.
• Be persuasive and not afraid to challenge, debate and influence key decisions.
• Demonstrate programme management, project management, capital projects and contract management skills.
• Competent in the handling of data sets and analysing/presenting data to evidence proposed solutions.
• Being a team player, collaborative and confident with others and ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Flexibility to travel as and when required, plus also to work in new sectors or environments.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional qualification: Bachelor's degree
• Project Management Qualification e.g. Prince 2 or MSP or equivalent relevant experience
• Business Case Writing Skills or equivalent relevant experience
• Previous experience of working collaboratively and managing change across multi-disciplinary teams
• Project Management planning and organisational skills, including the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of the HM Treasury 5 case model and experience of supporting business case authoring and development
• Able to demonstrate experience of working with large and complex datasets
• Excellent interpersonal, persuasion and influencing skills
• Able to work flexibly and adapt to suit the changing requirements of the project
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral and including presentation skills.
• Able to prioritise and manage own workload with minimal supervision.
• Clear understanding of good practice data management procedures.

Desirable

• Relevant Industry qualification – Surveying, Engineering, Financial, Accounting
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Better Business Case Accreditation
• Experience of Strategic infrastructure programmes in large/complex organisations
• Experience of working as a project manager level in Health or Social Care services
• Ability to lead and develop Business Case for major capital investment opportunities
• Demonstrate initiative and resilience to deal with challenges and resistance.
• Able to use data (e.g. MS Excel, Power BI) to deliver perceptive and well-supported analysis which can be used to drive evidence-based solutions to complex issues.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.