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Program Manager, Real Estate Strategic Initiatives
The Program Manager, Real Estate Strategic Initiatives role will be a key member of the Real Estate Strategy and Operations team within the Real Estate and Workplace Services organization. This individual will focus on Strategic Initiatives across the Real Estate life cycle and cross-functionally within the company to drive operational excellence!
This position requires a demonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams to drive execution. The ideal candidate has a combination of Real Estate, project management, process management, and a keen understanding and passion for the exciting business of Real Estate. As a Real Estate Manager, Strategic Initiatives you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of projects, optimizing processes, and driving critical initiatives that typically require global cross-functional resourcing and alignment. You will work closely with the Real Estate Workplace Services (REWS) team and various other functions across the company to develop and implement comprehensive solutions that support cross-functional initiatives
Proposal for Responsibilities:
- Drive projects that are ambiguous, ensuring that they ultimately achieve the stated strategic objective
- Be a trusted partner to the global REWS Senior Leadership team and cross-functional partners while obtaining approvals and influencing key decision making
- Leverage existing project management tools and technology to streamline project planning, tracking, and reporting
- Effectively manage project budgets, ensuring adherence to approved budgets and proactive budget tracking and management
- Create and maintain positive relationships across REWS and our cross-functional partner teams to ensure successful implementation of process improvements and initiatives; influencing through your deep understanding of Salesforce business and practices
- Support the end-to-end lifecycle of Real Estate M&A Integration activities, coordinating with service providers and working cross-functionally with internal teams
- Implement strategic scenario planning and analysis to inform and guide critical decision-making
- As a powerful storyteller, you will develop and present executive level presentations, with input and alignment from cross-functional teams
- Develop and implement comprehensive communication plans, ensuring that all partners are informed at the optimal times throughout the project
- Support change management strategies and plans that improve employee adoption and usage of required changes
- Address issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions throughout a project
Requirements:
- 7+ years of demonstrated ability within the end-to-end Real estate life cycle, Corporate Real Estate or Real Estate consulting experience, M&A integration experience a plus
- Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the Values & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)
- Change Management (Prosci), Six Sigma, or similar process management experience preferred
- Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making skills with a strong general business discernment and ability to distill sophisticated issues, develop solutions and implement effective strategies
- Identify and complete the implementation of process improvements to automate and scale real estate operations
- Leverage existing data sources to develop dashboard reporting on key metrics to monitor the financial and operational performance against budget and industry benchmarks
- Experience leading internal approval process and managing approval timeline
- Experience with Smartsheets or similar project management software
- Flexible and comfortable pivoting quickly, ability to handle multiple high-visibility projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated experience of supporting and driving major initiatives across a diverse, geographically dispersed, multicultural environment while encouraging effective relationships
- Partner with all Real Estate functions and key business partners in Employee Success, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Business Technology, and Global Safety & Security across all levels of the organization
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail
- Self-starter and high degree of motivation to go above and beyond the task at hand
- Highly adaptable and service-oriented demeanor
- Ability to operate in a high-impact, fast-paced environment with ambiguity
- Ability to think strategically and act in a detailed, hands-on manner
- Experience working in a results-driven, solutions-oriented, and fast-paced environment with competing priorities
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