Your role
The Strategy & Portfolio Manager is responsible for developing and driving the category strategies including monitoring and execution of assigned portfolios. Achieve goals by securing supply, ensuring significant year-on-year cost improvements while meeting financial and budget targets and support providing financial market updates for forecasting and budget purposes. Identify and implement demand, productivity and innovative improvements while maintaining quality and managing vendor service levels. Set If applicable set standards to embed harmonisation and quality levels. Work closely with internal and external key stakeholders to develop effective cost reduction strategies and implementation plans and ascertain implementation.
Your responsibilities
Strategy and Portfolio Management
- Formulating, evaluating, and testing of the Corporate Real Estate strategy against different internal and external influences, such as Hybrid working, sustainability requirements, market trends.
- Developing and maintaining an integrated accommodation (Corporate Real Estate portfolio) plan that is in line with the Corporate Real Estate strategy, so that real estate accommodation needs can always be forecasted from a long-, medium- to short term period. During this process master plans are developed and periodically matched against the Corporate Real Estate strategy and business strategy.
- Managing demand management, both at group level (relation to senior management and business line) and at local/regional level maintaining the relationship with country management.
- Lead the process of site selection by setting out the scope and strategy, support the transactions, fit-out projects and by managing the approval process of the business case.
- Continuously identify opportunities to optimize the portfolio, such as increasing the portfolio flexibility (contraction or expansion of the office portfolio) to reduce costs and anticipate on the uncertainties in demand.
- Set out the transition of the office portfolio to meet the sustainability targets.
Real Estate (Category) Expertise
- Increase flexibility in the real estate portfolio and optimize the global portfolio.
- Identify and implement new (market) standards. Maintain and update ING's standards and requirements to offer a great working environment.
- Develop and drive global real estate strategies, policies and guidelines throughout the global portfolio.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate, lead, and influence cross-functional project teams.
- Perform stakeholder management activities with senior stakeholders by leveraging advanced advisory skills.
Strategic Challenges
Manage assigned real estate portfolio in the context of a multi-disciplinary stakeholder landscape consisting of Business Contract Owner(s), multiple support functions, and Suppliers by finding the optimal balance between value add, flexibility.
How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.
Furthermore, you have:
- 3 - 6 years in Procurement or real estate area, preferably at a strategic level in an international (financial services provider) organisation
- 3+ years experience in managing (hierarchical line) direct reports or actively coaching (functional) procurement or real estate colleagues
- Real Estate and Facility Management Category specific knowledge/experience.
- Experience working with offshore teams
- Analytical skills, combined with a creative view on facts and figures, and the ability to summarize and synthetize findings in a clear and concise advice
- Profound interest and experience in the field of (corporate) real estate calculation and simulation models, financials, benchmarks
- Strong project management skills to align with multiple stakeholders
- Strong negotiation skills
Rewards & benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.
The benefits of working with us at ING include:
- A salary indication tailored to your qualities and experience within GJA18
- Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
- Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
- CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
- 13th month salary
- 8% Holiday payment
- Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
- Mobility card
- Attractive pension scheme
- Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.
About us
With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!