✨ AI Summary
The CCB Head of Real Estate Planning and Location Strategy – Managing Director will manage a team of 30-40 people responsible for CCB’s location strategy, real estate planning, and execution. This role involves developing a long-term location strategy considering labor force skills, market health, new work models, and strategic co-location efforts. The position requires developing robust analytics for site and seating strategies, leading project managers for real estate and workplace technology initiatives, and ensuring efficient headcount projections aligned with financial budgets and location strategy. Collaboration with key stakeholders including Global Real Estate, Corporate & Site Services, GTI, Human Resources, and line of business partners is essential. Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in finance, strategy, or management consulting, with strong analytical, leadership, and communication skills. Experience with data analytics and visualization tools like Alteryx and Tableau is desired.
🎁 Benefits & Perks
comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching
Requirements
10+ years of experience in a large diverse organization in finance, strategy or management consulting, with experience in real estate planning, logistics, or program management desired. Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with a passion for leveraging data analytics and visualization tools. Proven team leadership and change management abilities, with strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to influence and advise stakeholders at all levels.
Description
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 30-40 people that support CCB’s location strategy, real estate planning and execution efforts
- Develop a location strategy to support the long term vision for CCB; taking into consideration the skills and talent in the labor force, the health of the market, new ways of working and desired strategic co-location efforts with customers and /or business partners
- Develop robust analytics to support site and seating strategies as well as in-person attendance patterns to enable more informed real estate decisions
- Lead a team of project managers responsible for supporting both large market-level programs as well as smaller scale initiatives related to real estate and/or workplace technology
- Lead team responsible for ensuring efficient process of CCB headcount projections that are accurately aligned to financial budget and location strategy
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across the firm on site strategies and seating solutions; including, Global Real Estate (GRE), Corporate & Site Services, GTI
- Collaborate with Human Resources on labor force and market analytics
- Partner with Workplace Experience team on RTTO/Hybrid work initiatives as appropriate
- Partner with line of business location planners, CAOs and CFOs on real estate strategies
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in a large diverse organization in finance, strategy or management consulting. Experience in real estate planning or logistics or program management desired
- Strong critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills. Passionate about leveraging data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau)
- Strong team leader and change agent; passion for coaching and development of people
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills - ability to synthesize information into concise, insightful and actionable recommendations
- Ability to collaborate, influence, motivate and advice multiple stakeholders including senior management. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of management
- Strong judgment, professional maturity, personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results oriented, fact based. Has the courage to ask tough questions and challenge the status quo and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to employ balance approach to recommendations between financial analytics and employee experience