Assistant Manager, Real Estate Occupier Consultant, Infrastructure & Real Estate

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

This is your opportunity to join the Deloitte Real Estate Advisory team, which blends consulting, finance, construction, digital and property skills to address the most complex challenges in real estate and infrastructure.

We are the go-to strategic advisor to a global network of corporate and public sector clients. We utilise the latest technology and industry insights to help clients optimise their real estate and infrastructure investments and operations and achieve sustainability goals.

As one of the largest and most respected integrated real estate advisory teams in the UK, the team includes chartered surveyors, cost consultants, project managers, engineers, technology specialists and accountants.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

We are currently looking for a property professional to join our Occupiers and Capital Projects team. Working at the Assistant Manager level you will advise on a wide range of projects for both our public and private sector clients, who occupy and manage a vast array of real estate. Working here will give you the chance to develop your business consulting skills to build on your existing professional or industry expertise.

There are four key reasons this presents an excellent opportunity for successful applicants:

1. You will work with the biggest clients across the UK and Worldwide

In our Occupiers & Capital Projects advisory team, we work with the world's largest and most influential organisations. Our clients span industries and sectors, but include the world's biggest banks and financial services institutions, multi-national consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and telecoms, and the public sector, including central and local government, agencies and arms-length bodies with the largest and most complex estates

2. You will work on the most relevant, pressing, and complex challenges

There has never been a more exciting time to work with our clients on the challenges they face.

Our clients' Corporate Real Estate (CRE), Workplace, Facilities Management (FM) or Estates teams in the public and private sectors are evolving their approaches to support their organisations as they embrace the future of work and adapt to post-pandemic ways of working.

We are supporting our clients, both within the public and private sector, as they navigate these generational challenges.

Examples of recent work we have done include:

• Supporting a client to identify a new head office location using data analysis, define the outline requirement and stand up the programme to relocate and deliver this new workplace to its 2000+ staff;
• Supporting a real estate portfolio cost reduction programme for PE-owned global media company;
• Defining the CRE and FM strategy for the delivery of a high-profile facilities and workplace services transformation programme for a FTSE 250 company;
• Designing and establishing a new target operating model for one of the worlds largest organisations with a £2bn+ annual capital plan;
• Providing real estate expertise as part of a wider cross-Deloitte project to help government consider how to spend investment to reduce carbon emissions; and
• Preparing robust business cases to seek approval for future changes to our clients real estate for a range of scale from £5m to £1bn+ supported by detailed cost and benefit analysis, including an in-depth analysis of potential service delivery models.

3. You will engage at the very top of the organisation

The breadth, complexity and strategic importance of our clients' challenges mean we work with colleagues from across Deloitte, and engage with the senior leadership in our clients' organisations, from CEOs, COOs, CFOs, HR Directors of FTSE 100 organisations to senior civil servants.

4. You will be part of a high performing team with the opportunities to develop your career in a large professional services firm and the opportunities that can provide

We often work as part of multi-disciplinary teams, offering our clients the best mix of experience from across the firm. We combine our real estate expertise with the skills that our colleagues in other parts of the firm offer, from business design to digital transformation to M&A, in the UK and globally, to address the most complex challenges faced by our clients.

We take personal development seriously, offering a comprehensive range of learning and development opportunities within a stretching yet highly supportive environment. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive so you will receive continuous training and ongoing, supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself.

You will be part of an environment where excellent client service, creativity, hard work and ambition are rewarded.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Key required skills:

• You're an analytical thinker and problem solver. You can collect and analyse complex data from appropriate sources to extract insights and develop informed recommendations that shape or support project objectives.
• You're a strong presenter with excellent report writing skills. You can deliver effective presentations and reports to convey clear messaging and insights to clients and stakeholders.
• You're a natural at building relationships. You build productive relationships and uses an appropriate communication style to positively influence clients, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness. You are interested and aware of trends in the market that impact our clients.

Key required experience:

• Professional qualification in Real Estate (e.g., Surveyor) or Consulting experience in a large professional services firm or equivalent corporate or public sector role.
• Knowledge and/or experience of at least two of: Corporate real estate functions, Facilities management operations, Business case development, Estates / real estate transformation programmes , Estates / real estate optimisation programmes, Data analysis using tools in a real estate context.
• The ability to travel as required.

Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Infrastructure and Real Estate

Our Infrastructure and Real Estate team supports both public and private sector clients on complex infrastructure, real estate, and capital projects. Typical engagements include urban regeneration, transport, energy and renewables, and occupier advisory to central government and large corporate companies.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

Get to know some of our team through our People Series, available through our blog page .

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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