Director Real Estate Consulting - Technology

Director Real Estate Consulting - Technology

Director level appointment working for a leading consultancy focusing on real estate and technology. The role is paying up to £150k + car allowance + bonus + benefits for the right individual. As a Director, you will be responsible for supporting the Partner team in winning work and continuing to grow our service proposition. You will be responsible for originating, developing and running a pipeline of real estate technology related business leads, establishing client requirements, developing proposals, closing contracts and running engagements. You will advise clients on wide range of projects including real estate diagnostics, target operating models, technology strategies, business cases, functional designs, project and programme management of real estate technology implementations, data strategies, advanced management information approaches and diagnostics.

The role

• Advising Asset/Fund Managers, Sovereign Wealth Funds, real estate functions of public or private sector organisations or service providers on all aspects of real estate technology (Fund/Asset/Property and Facilities management, connected buildings, advanced analytics, disruptive technologies, data transfer, data governance, and technology design and implementation).
• The work spans both the public sector and private sector and potentially covers multiple countries across Europe and the Middle East.
• Working with clients’ to define their real estate asset challenges. 
• These may be systems, data, process or people related.
• Developing solutions and providing advice on how to address these challenges. Supporting this advice through effective stakeholder management, production of board papers and business cases.
• Working with senior client stakeholders to lead them through the implementation of their RE technology related transformation initiatives.
• The work may include the full spectrum of a real estate technology
• It also may include advising on different procurement models and potentially developing tools, solutions and products that REC may take to the market.
• The solutions are likely to include the whole ecosystem used by real estate clients (i.e. Investment Management, Commercial management, Customer Relationship Management, Document Management, Integrated Workplace Management Systems, Workflow, Data Repositories and Business Information/Visualisation systems).

What you need

• Expert knowledge of client management / consulting skills
• Experience of business development, sales and relationship management related to professional services
• Operated in an environment where targeted on sales and managed revenue with responsibility for building own pipeline and achieving sales with both existing and new clients.   
• Strong relationships and market knowledge within the real estate investment fund/asset management market
• Knowledge of the Real Estate Technology solutions that support Asset/Fund Managers and the wider public and private sector Real Estate functions is required.
• Knowledge of process design, operating model transformation and data, M&I and technology strategies