Head of Portfolio Strategy

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Head of Portfolio Strategy (Property)
£5,500 Car allowance, plus full family Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing with years served and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time

This is a national role that requires regular travel, including visits to your nearest office two to three times per week. Suitable office locations include London, Stockport, Leeds, Chesterfield, and Sheffield.

With c1850 properties and 33 million sqft of space spread across the UK, Royal Mail's portfolio is one of the largest corporate estates in Europe. With a diverse property portfolio from local delivery offices in every postal area of the UK, corporate offices, vehicle garages, rail hubs, and our new state-of-the-art fully automated parcel superhubs.

The size, reach and complexity of the estate is vast alongside the potential for you to develop your career within one of the UKs largest industrial and logistics operators.

As Royal Mail continues an ambitious and complex transformation, be at the forefront of the estate strategy as Royal Mail modernises, defining its future network and property investment to best serve our customers delivering 11 billion letters and parcels annually across the country. Our estate is changing to support more parcel sorting capabilities and automation, the business 'Steps to Zero' environmental objectives, whilst continuing to maintain our high standards of safety. The Property team is an integral part of the transformation and provides expertise to drive and achieve maximum commercial value to the property portfolio.

About the Role
Reporting into the Property Portfolio Strategy & Projects Director, you will lead the Portfolio Strategy team to identify, prioritise, and develop innovative strategic property solutions.

You will also:
• Lead the property interface to work with colleagues in the Strategy and Network teams to understand and define the Network strategy.
• Turn data into insight to create regional strategies including every property in the estate and enables the creation of a long-term plan and supports shorter term decisions.
• Inspire a team of 5 to deliver high quality outputs and develop their own skills.
• Take ownership of business cases for individual property projects.
• Identify Property data and system improvements to support the development and implementation of the Portfolio Strategy.
• Engage with operating businesses and leaders at a strategic level to ensure the fit of property strategy.

About You
To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:
• 5+ years relevant experience working at a senior level in a commercially focused environment - ideally in a Real Estate or Corporate business.
• Previous experience of leading and developing a team to achieve strategic objectives.
• The ability to confidently work within a level of ambiguity and complexity to deliver results.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to influence senior leaders in effective decision making.
• Great commercial acumen with a broad market knowledge and customer understanding
• Able to understand the principals and frameworks for successful Planning, Project & Portfolio Management within a fast-paced business environment.

Extra Benefits
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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Closing Date: Sunday 24th November. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached