Real Estate Programme Manager – Portfolio Delivery (12 months FTC)

Job Title

Real Estate Programme Manager Portfolio Delivery (12 months FTC)

Job Description Summary

The Real Estate Programme Manager Portfolio Delivery is responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of the clients real estate transactions and associated property projects. The role combines transaction delivery with programme management and acts as the inhouse client-side link between internal business stakeholders external advisers and outsourced delivery partners.
The postholder is accountable from initial requirement and business case through governance commercial negotiation approvals implementation handover and post-completion review. Managing portfolio wide lease event governance and the transaction pipeline you will drive a programmatic approach to transaction management continuously identifying and realising opportunities for efficiency in both execution alongside portfolio performance.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Lead portfolio delivery across the transaction lifecycle for lease renewals regears relocations consolidations expansions and other portfolio transactions from initial requirement through completion mobilisation handover and post-completion review.

Translate business requirements into project scopes delivery plans milestones budgets governance requirements and implementation activities that support approved property and portfolio objectives.

Act as the key intelligent client-side point of coordination for all leasehold transaction activity coordinating

stakeholders across operations finance legal tax risk sustainability facilities IT and senior leadership.

Coordinate programme governance ensuring outsourced providers deliver against agreed service levels performance measures and strategic objectives including project plans critical paths dependencies risk and issue logs change control budget tracking approvals and executive reporting.

Develop robust options appraisals and business cases through analysis stakeholder coordination information gathering and preparation of governance materials that clearly set out commercial operational financial risk and timing implications.

Coordinate inputs from external advisers agents lawyers surveyors project managers consultants and landlords supporting the successful delivery of property initiatives and agreed transaction outcomes.

Build stakeholder alignment and ensure each transaction progresses through the required Property governance delegation of authority financial and legal approval processes.

Maintain programme governance and oversee outsourced-provider performance against agreed service levels governance requirements performance measures and strategic objectives. Maintain clear plans critical paths dependencies budgets risks issues change controls approvals and executive reporting intervening promptly where delivery is at risk.

Manage portfolio-wide transaction pipeline and lease-event governance ensuring renewals rent reviews break options regears and expiries are identified early evidenced by approved occupancy strategies that enable you resource appropriately and deliver in line with business priorities.

Support portfolio optimisation initiatives through forward-looking transaction analysis that identifies opportunities to reduce cost manage risk and support business growth and wider organisational objectives.

Drive continuous improvement in transaction processes and support the implementation and ongoing development of the Property Operating Model promoting consistent governance processes controls and ways of working across internal teams and outsourced partners.

Core Skills & Experience

Experience delivering commercial real estate transactions in a client-side corporate occupier or advisory environment.

Strong programme and project management capability with a track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams stakeholders risks budgets and delivery plans through to completion.

Demonstrated ability to manage complex delivery activities exercise sound judgement resolve delivery challenges and escalate issues appropriately to support effective decision-making.

Commercially aware with strong negotiation financial analysis options appraisal business case and risk management skills.

Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills including the ability to align diverse internal functions and communicate effectively with senior decision-makers.

Experience directing multidisciplinary external advisers and outsourced delivery partners with clear expectations accountability and performance oversight.

Experience implementing process improvement operating model change or business transformation programmes.

Good understanding of leases heads of terms transaction documentation property due diligence and the interaction between real estate legal finance and operational requirements.

Knowledge across all landlord and tenant activities including lease event management rent reviews lease renewals regears.

Highly organised and detail-focused with disciplined governance reporting and document management.

Confident using portfolio programme project and financial data to produce meaningful reporting support decision-making and communicate progress clearly.

Qualifications

Degree-level qualification in real estate surveying business project management or a related discipline is preferred.

Typically 2 4 years relevant commercial real estate transaction or programme delivery experience.

Behaviours & Personal Qualities

Delivery-focused and accountable with the resilience to see complex programmes projects and initiatives through to a successful outcome.

Proactive pragmatic and solution-oriented while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.

Clear and credible communicator who adapts their style operational technical and executive audiences.

Collaborative and able to build trust across internal teams and external partners.

Comfortable working with ambiguity competing priorities and evolving business requirements while supporting timely and informed decision-making.

Acts with integrity demonstrates sound judgement and applies a strong client-side mindset when balancing delivery governance and business priorities.

Cushman & Wakefield is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation age disability religion marital status or any other legally protected characteristic. Cushman & Wakefield is committed to equity in employment and our goal is to have a diverse inclusive and barrier-free workplace. If you are a person with a disability and need any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process you are invited to bring this to the Talent Acquisition Advisors attention once they have made contact.

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