Manager Smart Building H/F

Orange Business; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Orange Business is seeking a Smart Building Manager in France to lead a team of consultants, steer missions, and contribute to business development, marketing and inside expertise development. You will act as project director across real estate, workplace and IT domains, defining Smart Building strategy from needs expression to deployment and adoption by users.

The role emphasizes driving governance, change management, and value realization for clients, with strong leadership and workshops with

Qualifications

• Higher education Bac+5 in real estate, construction, digital or information systems.
• 8 years minimum professional experience in consulting, real estate, engineering, or digital transformation.
• Significant experience in Smart Building, Smart Workplace or related projects.
• Experience steering multi-stakeholder missions and leading consultants.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and develop consultants.
• Carry out pre-sales meetings and qualifications.
• Structure approaches and deliverables for projects.
• Present proposals to clients and respond to tenders.
• Define functional architectures and connect building systems.
• Coordinate stakeholders and manage risks across projects.
• Lead change management and measure adoption post-deployment.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Consulting mindset

Autonomy

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Higher education Bac+5 in real estate, construction, digital or information systems

Job description

Location: France

Your role

As Smart Building Manager, reporting directly to the director of the Smart & Digital Building Squad, you will be responsible for consultants. You will operationally steer missions, actively participate in business development, offer marketing and the development of expertise within the firm.

You act as project director for real estate departments, workplace environment departments and information systems departments in defining their Smart Building strategy and in the digital transformation of their buildings, from the expression of needs through to deployment of solutions and their adoption by users.

Your main responsibilities

1.Business development and management

• Supervise, support and develop consultants.
• Carry out pre-sales meetings and qualification phases.
• Steer the drafting of commercial proposals and responses to calls for tender.
• Structure approaches, workloads, deliverables and intervention frameworks.
• Present proposals to clients and defend methodological choices.
• Develop offers, methods, reference frameworks and points of view around Smart Building.
• Participate in technological, regulatory and competitive watch.

2.Consulting mission management and strategic scoping

• Analyze clients' user, real estate, energy, environmental, digital and organizational challenges.
• Build a target vision of the intelligent building adapted to their priorities and their portfolio.
• Réaliser des diagnostics de maturité Smart Building et Digital Workplace.
• Identify, qualify and prioritize use cases with value in:
  • energy performance;
  • optimization of occupancy and spaces;
  • comfort and quality of indoor environments;
  • predictive maintenance;
  • employee experience;
  • occupant services;
  • safety and security;
  • multisite portfolio management.
• Develop roadmaps, transformation scenarios and governance models.
• Contribute to building digital ambition trajectories.

3.Functional design management and Smart Building architecture

• Gather needs from business, real estate, technical and IT departments.
• Formalize use cases, user journeys and functional requirements.
• Participate in defining functional and application architectures.
• Define the principles of articulation between:
  • building equipment and systems;
  • GTB/GTC ;
  • IoT and sensors;
  • networks and connectivity;
  • Building Operating System ou plateforme de services ;
  • BIM and BIM GEM;
  • real estate information systems;
  • Workplace tools;
  • data platforms;
  • applications intended for occupants.

4.Project management assistance services and project steering

• Support clients in drafting functional programs and specifications.
• Participate in the consultation and selection of suppliers, integrators and publishers.
• Analyze technical and functional responses.
• Ensure coordination between the various project stakeholders:
• Manage risks, dependencies, trade-offs and action plans.
• Prepare and lead governance bodies.
• Monitor the execution of pilots, demonstrators and deployments.
• Prepare functional acceptance and commissioning phases.
• Verify the alignment of deployed solutions with uses and the initial vision.

5. Change management mission steering

• Understand the expectations of occupants, operators and managers.
• Design simple and coherent service journeys.
• Facilitate service design or co-creation workshops.
• Participate in defining the terms of adoption of new digital services.
• Support client teams in evolving their practices.
• Measure usage, satisfaction and value created after deployment.

Education and experience

• Higher education Bac+5, engineering school, business school, university or specialized training in real estate, construction, digital or information systems.
• Professional experience of 8 years minimum, acquired in consulting, real estate, engineering, solution integration or digital transformation.
• Significant experience on Smart Building, Smart Workplace, digital real estate, IoT, energy performance or technical operation projects.
• Experience steering missions, work packages or complex projects involving several stakeholders.
• Management experience in a consulting firm is an important asset.

Your qualities

• Strong analytical and synthesis skills.
• Ability to understand and articulate business, real estate and technological challenges.
• Excellent writing and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to facilitate workshops and engage with executive-level interlocutors.
• Teaching ability and capacity to make complex technical topics accessible.
• Autonomy in conducting missions.
• Consulting mindset and client orientation.
• Taste for collective work and multidisciplinary environments.
• Ability to structure and secure complex projects.
• Curiosity about innovations, uses and market developments.
• Ability to supervise and develop consultants

Entité

The ambition ofOrange Business is to become the leading network and digital integrator in Europe, building on our strengths in next-generation connectivity solutions, cloud and cybersecurity.

Our 30,000 women and men present in 65 countries, whose every voice counts, are all driven by the same determination and team spirit, to build the digital solutions of today and tomorrow and create a positive impact for our clients, their employees and the planet.

We offer exciting opportunities through innovative projects in data and digital, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, IoT, as well as digital workspace and big data.

Come live this adventure with us!

Working at Orange Consulting means joining a human-scale firm that offers its employees clear and accessible development prospects through training paths specifically designed by and for our consultants.

The Orange Consulting management supports companies and institutions in France and internationally on their digital transformation issues and business challenges.