REWS Strategic Initiatives Manager

REWS Strategic Initiatives ManagerThe REWS Strategic Initiatives Manager will be a key member of the Strategic Initiatives team within the Real Estate and Workplace Services organization. This individual will focus on Strategic Initiatives across the Real Estate life cycle and cross functionally within the company to drive operational excellence.

This position requires a demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams to drive execution. The ideal candidate has a combination of Real Estate, project management, process management, and a keen understanding and passion for the exciting business of Real Estate.

As a REWS Strategic Initiatives Manager you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful execution of projects, optimizing processes, and driving strategic initiatives that typically require global cross-functional resourcing and alignment.

You will collaborate closely with the Real Estate Workplace Services (REWS) team and various other functions across the company to develop and implement comprehensive solutions that support cross-functional initiatives.

Proposal for Responsibilities:

• Support and drive projects that are ambiguous, ensuring that they ultimately achieve the stated strategic objective
• Be a trusted partner to REWS organization and cross-functional partners while obtaining approvals and influence key decision making at all levels of the organization
• Leverage existing project management tools and technology to streamline project planning, tracking, and reporting
• Effectively manage project budgets, ensuring adherence to approved budgets, and proactive budget tracking and management
• Create and maintain positive relationships across REWS and our cross-functional partner teams to ensure successful implementation of process improvements and initiatives; influencing through your deep understanding of Salesforce business and practices
• Execute strategic scenario planning and analysis to inform and guide critical decision-making
• Develop and present executive level presentations as a powerful storyteller, with input and alignment from cross-functional teams
• Develop and execute comprehensive communication plans, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed at the optimal times throughout the project
• Support change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage of required changes
• Address issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions throughout a project
• Lead initiatives at the intersection of AI, innovation, and workplace strategy, translating emerging business needs into actionable plans

Required Qualifications:

Experience & Background

• 7+ years experience within the end to end Real estate life cycle, Corporate Real Estate, or Real Estate consulting experience
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the Values & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making skills with a strong general business discernment and ability to distill sophisticated issues, develop solutions, and implement effective strategies
• Identify and execute on the implementation of process improvements to automate and scale real estate operations

Leverage existing data sources to develop dashboard reporting on key metrics to monitor financial and operational performance against budget and industry benchmarks

• Experience leading internal approval processes and managing approval timelines

Experience with project management software (e.g. Smartsheets/Asana/AirTable/Slack/Linear), and comfort working in AI-enabled collaboration tools (e.g. Slack, generative AI tools) to synthesize information and drive efficiency

Project Management & Leadership

• Flexible and comfortable pivoting quickly, ability to handle multiple high-visibility projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated experience of supporting and driving major initiatives across a diverse, geographically dispersed, multicultural environment while fostering effective relationships
• Experience in partnering with all Real Estate functions and key business partners in Employee Success, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Business Technology and Global Safety & Security across all levels of the organization
• Ability to operate in a high impact, fast-paced environment with ambiguity
• Ability to think strategically and act in a detailed, hands-on manner
• Experience working in a results-driven, solutions-oriented, and fast-paced environment with competing priorities

Communication & Personal Attributes

• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail
• Proactive, self-starter and high degree of motivation
• Highly responsive and service-oriented demeanor

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, Six Sigma, Change Management (Prosci) or similar project, process, and change management experience
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technology trends, and how they apply to workplace strategy