Assistant Director, Procurement & Supply Chain Consulting, Corporate Real Estate and Facilities ...

This is your opportunity to join the Deloitte Real Estate advisory team (which is part of our wider Infrastructure & Real Estate business unit, within ourStrategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory service line).This blends consulting, finance, construction, digital and property skills to address the most complex challenges in real estate and facilities management.

We are the go-to strategic advisor to a global network of corporate and public sector clients when it comes to Real Estate and Facilities Management consultancy. We utilise the latest technology and industry insights to help clients optimise their real estate and facilities management operations to achieve their corporate and strategic goals.

We are looking for curious minds who will join one of the largest and most respected real estate advisory teams in the UK. You will be joining to a multi-disciplinary team of chartered surveyors, cost consultants, project managers, engineers, technology specialists and accountants.

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Connect to your opportunity We are looking for a professional with Procurement & Supply Chain management experience working to help our clients in multiple industries with a specific focus on Corporate Real Estate or Facilities Management (CRE & FM) category and domain expertise. If you procured or helped procure (at consultancy capacity) a complex facilities and real estate or property management services for a major organisation you would be an ideal candidate for this role. We seek for people with curious minds, who would like to take their career forward. Either coming from management consulting or from one of the major FM or RE companies, you'll be part of a team dealing with industry's highest profile Occupier consultancy engagements.

In this role you will be expected to support client engagements across a range of industries.Some of these may look like:

• Working alongside with the client's senior Real Estate and Facilities personnel, and leading a team of 3 Deloitte consultants to develop the procurement outsourcing strategy and business case for facilities and estate management activities across 200 locations across the UK for a public sector client;
• For a large pharmaceutical company, creation and implementation of a procurement strategy across RE & FM services across the organisation's entire real estate portfolio.Including:
• Preparing the business case for change leading the cost benefits analysis of outsourcing RE / FM services.
• Preparing the go to market and supplier engagement strategy, structuring the sourcing and lotting strategy and bundling options
• Leading a team of consultants to prepare tender materials through to supplier negotiations, change and communications management and implementation processes
• Facilitating the tender process and facilitating the client - supplier engagement process
• Developing the CRE and FM strategy for the delivery of a high profile facilities and workplace services transformation programme;
• Design and establishment of a new target operating model for a client organisation, including the supply chain and service delivery models;
• Conducting options analysis around development of technology and AI solutions for the next generation of FM and RE services for a major Bank - including analysis of the existing technology landscape, workplace applications and identifying value creation through technology and AI in FM / RE.

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four key reasons this opportunity presents an excellent prospect for successful applicants: 1.) You will work with the biggest clients, global organisations We work with the world's largest and most influential organisations. In addition to our public sector focus, we support a cross sector of global private sector organisations (including Financial Services, Energy, and Life Sciences, Telecoms and Technology) with significant Real Estate portfolios and Facilities Management requirements. 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' Real Estate and FM functions are supporting their organisations in evolving to embrace the future of work, disrupting the RE market with AI and adapt to post pandemic ways of working. Their employees are acting as consumers, making choices about when / how / why they consume space, and physical space can be a key attraction to talent for the best organisations. However, the economic environment provides critical challenges such as the need to significantly reduce cost, through leveraging new / lower cost locations, reducing portfolio size, restructuring the supply chain and service delivery models and making an impact on the bottom line by lowering operational spend.
These are generational challenges for our clients, with which they need our support. 3.) You will engage with senior stakeholder of organisations The breadth, strategic importance and complexity of our clients' challenges mean we work with colleagues from across Deloitte (e.g. Human Capital, Digital), and engage with the C suite in our client's organisations. We frequently engage with CEOs, COOs, CFOs, HR Directors of FTSE 100 organisations. 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 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 To be successful in this role you will need to be able to:

• Lead large multidisciplinary transformational CRE & FM, workplace and procurement projects
• Define and challenge client requirements and identify means of solving commercial and real estate problems
• Be responsible for providing day to day oversight, leadership and support for more junior team members
• Be a strong team player, capable of fulfilling different roles within project teams

Undertake business development:

• Lead, support and coordinate specific bids and proposals that align with your goals
• Drive specific initiatives in your desired area of expertise
• Develop thought leadership / eminence and propositions to drive awareness and eminence

Support team / community Development:

• Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Promote, develop and lead by example the use of AI and technology skillsets in the team

Support internal initiatives:

• Work closely with the Partner/Director group to drive growth of the Deloitte Corporate Occupiers & Real Estate community in the UK and Global network
• Knowledge of corporate real estate and facilities management industry, suppliers, and trends.
• Strategic and tactical procurement and supply chain / commercial management experience either as a consultant or within industry
• Professional experience working with Corporate Real Estate / Facilities Management functions across private sector industries, either in industry or consulting
• Professional qualification in a relevant area (e.g. MRICS, MCIPS) welcomed but not a pre requisite.
• Demonstrable experience in managing senior stakeholder relationships and supporting business growth opportunities
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness, and ability to leverage AI.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Excellent analytical skills - desirable but not essential to have data analytics experience i.e. use of data visualisation software such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong communication skills honed through experience in client facing roles or similar
• Excellent presentation and report writing skills.
• The ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• The ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Excellent problem solving and a strategic thinker.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude, eager to contribute and collaborate effectively.
• The ability to travel as required(opportunity to work on assignments overseas).
• Willingness and eligibility to obtain UK security clearance (SC), if required.

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