Corporate Services Portfolio Performance (Real Estate & Location Strategy), Director at Morgan Stanley

The Portfolio Strategy & Execution role will be a critical in enabling the delivery of the Firm's Real Estate Strategy through the development and execution of a multi-year plan. It will be part of a sustained capability to optimise the Firm's Real Estate portfolio on an ongoing basis.
The Firm's Real Estate Strategy articulates key outcomes which will be delivered over the next five years across the Firm, specifically increasing utilisation, reducing vacancy and branch density, improving the employee experience and optimizing workforce location. Delivering the above outcomes will add commercial value to the Firm and support one of the five key go forward priorities articulated by James Gorman, "Evaluate how we work to improve our productivity, quality of work, and overall employee experience".
Corporate Services is committed to providing flexible career options designed to attract, develop and retain intelligent, driven, career-oriented talent. You will gain a rounded experience and have the opportunity to develop a network across a diverse spectrum of global departments and business units across the firm.

Primary Responsibilities
• Develop a global portfolio plan with a five year outlook that elaborates the financial and operational impact of planned strategic activities
• Deliver business unit and regional views of the global portfolio plan and support client relationship managers in internal client engagement
• Develop a financial model and balanced decision framework to evaluate portfolio optimisation scenarios and drive outcomes that align with business priorities
• Perform portfolio performance review and recommend actions
• Support the development of initiatives with clear and executable business cases that will enable the delivery of the real estate strategy.
• Perform benefit tracking against approved business cases and obtain sign off
• Partner with the Business Intelligence and Analytics team to transform the occupancy cost management capability

Qualifications
Skills Required:
• Experience in strategic planning and developing business cases that underpin strategic change agenda, ideally in real estate portfolio planning and optimisation
• Deep analytic skills with a sharp attention to details and experience with scenario planning. Having strategic planning experience is critical for the success of this role
• Understanding of the core drivers that support optimization of large geographically dispersed real estate portfolio
• Ability to partner with internal stakeholder groups and also to leverage the supply chain and vendors to deliver change
• Ability to prioritize multiple initiatives, appropriately balance strategic and execution activities, and perform effectively under pressure.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to form effective working relationships quickly
• MBA preferred
• Experience working within financial services preferred

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