Assistant Manager - Defence and Government (Real Estate)

A global leader in the Management Consulting space is hiring into their Assets Advisory practice, focusing on Defence and Government clients.

As one of the largest consulting workforces in the market, they consistently offer market leading training and development, the most complex, critical and intellectually challenging projects and programmes, the opportunity to deal directly with senior level decision makers, and fast track progression through their business.

From a hiring perspective, they invest in outstanding people and pride themselves on curating teams of high performing individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds, to enable organisations to perform as effectively, efficiently and innovatively as possible.

This team is the go to strategic advisor and delivery partner for complex real estate, facilities and headquarters related business challenges, working across a range of corporate, financial services and public sector clients. Candidates in this role in particular, will focus on Defence and Security and Central Government clients.

Examples of engagements include:

• Developing estates and asset management strategy to reduce cost and bring clients closer to achieving Net Zero
• Defining the CRE and FM strategy for the delivery of a high-profile facilities and workplace services transformation programme;
• Procurement and commercial transformation across a national Real Estate Portfolio.
• Designing and establishing a new target operating model for a client organisation, including the supply chain and service delivery models;
• Reviewing the commercial and financial parameters in international facilities management contracts to identify potential opportunities, risks and mitigation measures to implement;
• Supporting a client to identify a new head office location, define the outline requirement and stand up the programme to relocate, deliver and service this new workplace to its 2000 staff;

Key Requirements to be successful in this role include:

• A background working on complex Infrastructure or Real Estate related transformation across public sector or defence clients.
• Evidence of high performance and /or quick progression
• Experience of stakeholder management (whether internal or external)
• Project and Programme Management experience across Capital Projects and Real Estate
• Commercial and Procurement experience in the public sector
• Fantastic communication and experience working in teams.

The team is keen for professionals across surveying, engineering and architecture, or that are considering leaving the military, so if any of those apply to you, and you have worked on infrastructure, facilities, real estate, HQ re-locations, site planning, estate strategy and planning, or capital projects, please send a CV across!

The firm are based in Central London, with other locations across the UK and offer both flexible and hybrid working policies.