EMESA Real Estate Senior Manager

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What You'll Do

The EMESA Program Manager will be fully responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery for regional real estate projects in EMESA. You will be responsible for the development of lease strategies for BCG's existing office portfolio and new offices and the implementation of these strategies from project kick-off to office delivery. Throughout this process, you will be responsible for all internal stakeholder management and the coordination of BCG's global real estate vendor's activities. You will also act as process lead during the end-to-end delivery coordinating all touch points within GRE.

You're Good At:

• You are an excellent communicator, capable of engaging effectively with all levels of BCG stakeholders, including leadership, to drive alignment and shared understanding.
• You excel in fostering a collaborative environment, valuing the opportunity to learn from others while actively building strong relationships across teams to ensure seamless coordination and successful outcomes.
• You are an expert in regional lease and construction practices and have an acute eye for leading design.
• Over your career, you developed a deep understanding of state-of-the-art workplace strategies and the power of a human-centered workplace.
• You are driven by taking a holistic view on the end-to-end real estate lifecycle with a passion to understand dependencies between the various disciplines and solving for complexity.
• You are experienced in structuring, preparing, and leading leadership presentations to proactively drive consensus and solutions.
• You anticipate challenges and roadblocks before they occur.

What You'll Bring

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred in one of the following fields: Architecture, Business, Interior Design, Project Management, or related field.
• Minimum of 8-12 years of relevant work experience in the commercial real estate sector including transactions and capital project delivery.
• Extensive EMESA regional working experience, ideally some global experience e.g., in South America.
• Proven ability to collaborate within cross-functional and immediate teams, valuing diverse perspectives and co-creating solutions to foster a positive team culture.
• Demonstrated ability to solve flexible leasing strategies with traditional leasing, shared office provider solutions, and turnkey market experience.
• Experience working with integrated real estate systems and dashboard data.
• Management of vendors to execute the leasing, design, and project delivery.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience leading and influencing stakeholders.
• Ability to apply strong problem-solving and business judgment skills to complex situations.
• Well versed in applying sustainability standards in the building selection and build-out.
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel, Miro, and SharePoint.
• Proficiency in other languages is a plus.

Who You'll Work With

The successful candidate will report to the Global Real Estate EMESA Regional Lead based in Frankfurt. You will then be part of an industry-leading global team of real estate specialists. Our teamwork is characterized by mutual support, a strong trust, culture of feedback and shared growth, and a good dose of humor. Integrity is our highest priority. Your line managers, peers, and the entire team will assist you in familiarizing yourself with the company and developing professionally. And you will also always be able to draw upon the experience of your other coworkers. You will actively engage with colleagues across the organization to share insights, seek input, and refine solutions. Through the team's various interfaces, you'll gain interesting insights into all areas of the Group (Consulting Team, BCG subsidiaries and the Business Services Team including IT, Finance, Risk, HR etc.).

Additional Info

BCG's real estate portfolio spans over 90 cities in over 50 countries with over 140 office footprints across BCG Consulting, Alternative Business Models, and Specialty Functions. We experience significant real estate activity as we grow, continuously evolving and innovating our portfolio and migrating our award-winning workplace strategy to support new ways of working. Global Real Estate (GRE) is BCG's growing in-house Corporate Real Estate function which supports the organization and our office network with all strategic and tactical real estate aspects around BCG's occupied office portfolio of 500k SQM. Our team's capabilities integrate Workplace Experience, Smart Office Innovation, Portfolio Strategy, Business Intelligence and Analysis, and Project Delivery which encompasses the Leasing through the Capital Project build-outs.

Our global team of currently 35 staff works as a highly collaborative, strategic, and solution-oriented team. The team is based out of Boston, London, Munich, New Delhi, and Singapore.

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