EY - Manager - Corporate Real Estate Manager

About this role:

EY has built an industry leading corporate real estate (CRE) consulting practice. We work with our clients to address their most complex CRE issues and challenges. We advise our clients on strategic, operational, and analytical matters. You have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That's how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our commitments to our stakeholders. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, and for our communities.

Our team of strategic advisors sits at the heart of a global EY real estate network that delivers high quality advice through every phase of the real estate lifecycle. You will leverage EY's global network to support various account teams, service lines, and solutions in order to tackle some of the largest and most complex corporate real estate and workplace challenges facing our clients.

Within SaT, the Real Estate (RE) group is part of the Valuations, Modelling and Economics sub-service line. Our RE practice provides corporate real estate, real estate valuation, analytical services and other business advisory services to developers, builders, investors, lenders, and Fortune 500 companies.

GDS RE works as a strategic partner to global RE practices, working with them to provide highly efficient and value-added services to meet our clients' corporate real estate and real estate valuation requirements.

We are looking for a Manager with expertise in corporate real estate (CRE), specializing in Digital Workplace and Smart Buildings to join our Real Estate Team.

Key responsibilities:

Our digital workplace and smart buildings capability area practitioners work with clients to develop and delivery IoT-based digital workplace and smart building solutions. Candidates should possess strong communication, influence, and analytic skills, as well as technical creativity and business acumen.

Key expectations of this role include the ability to:

- Help clients improve the workplace experience, by creating more collaborative environments

- Identify, evaluate, and develop digital workplace and smart building technology solutions; architect digital solutions to improve asset utilization, manage costs, and improve workflows

- Redesign CRE management operations using superior IoT-driven digital twin solutions that enable a more productive workplace experience and manage overall cost of ownership

In order to be effective in CRE, you need to be able to make intelligent and informed decisions about people, place, and technology. You will be an important part of our diverse, talented, and highly experienced team and work at the forefront of high-profile corporate real estate engagements. As a Manager within SaT GDS CRE Consulting, you will spend your days working on strategic and / or operational corporate real estate issues, while working with practice leadership and client management to deliver innovative solutions.

Essential skills include the ability to:

- Support engagement with current and prospective clients to diagnose their corporate real estate challenges and identify how EY's suite of services, tools, and technologies can best support their needs

- Manage digital workplace and smart building engagements- from visioning and master planning to assessment, design and integration, rollout, commissioning, and ongoing support

- Coach and guide practitioners on functional/technical issues

- Help leadership build new markets and generate demand for digital workplace and smart building advisory services; provide insight into competitive landscape by tracking and evaluating offerings from established and emergent players

- Communicate EY's point of view on relevant and current digital workplace and smart building topics and trends

- Manage the creation of proposals, presentations and other client-facing materials and deliverables

- Analyze and draw insights from complex data sets

- Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and create reports

- Interact at all levels of the client organization

Key characteristics:

- Client-service oriented work ethic, driven by a desire to act

- Strong interpersonal and relationship building capabilities

- Outstanding listening, written and oral communication skills

- Exceptional ability to present and articulate ideas through storytelling

- Passion for strategic and creative problem solving

- Intellectual curiosity and comfort with ambiguity

- Ability to foster and refresh ongoing client relationships

- Comfort working across multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and distributed teams

- Eagerness to mentor and counsel junior staff

- Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments

Requirements:

A minimum of:

- 10+ years of credible, related work experience in leading business development and delivery of strategic projects for a large client or set of clients in the field of corporate real estate, management consulting, workplace consulting, or technology consulting

- 5+ years of relevant experience in the digital workplace and / or smart buildings arena

- Undergraduate degree in accounting, engineering, architecture, business, finance, technology or other business-related field; relevant graduate degree or Master's in business administration (MBA) preferred

- Demonstrated experience supporting consulting practices for digital workplace or smart building technology, inclusive of analytics, information and communications technology, and broader digital solutions

- Strong business and technical orientation; ability to develop business cases to support investment decisions and communicate direction to engineering teams

- Experience with agile methodologies for systems implementation

- Experience supporting program and project management activities, such as resource planning, schedule development, engagement pricing, and budget management

- Effective teamwork, networking, and collaboration skills with ability to get things done in a complex, matrixed environment with distributed teams

- Exceptional writing and presentation skills

- High proficiency with the MS Office Suite of Products

- Ability to travel as needed

Additional preferred requirements for technical roles:

- Understanding of cyber security technologies and concepts is important, ideally accompanied by design experience

- Ability to manage teams focused on digital workplace and smart buildings solutions, along with experience developing core technologies in machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, and speech recognition

- Familiarity with Blue prism, UI Path, Python, Azure, Power BI Realtime dataset, APIs, etc. is preferred

- Working knowledge of the following:

- CCTV based access control,

- Sensor-based access management

- CAD management

- Building automation and information management systems

- Physical asset tracking and management

- Predictive and preventive maintenance

- Digital twin for building systems

- Network infrastructure

- IoT solutioning