Sr. Associate, Strategy & Operations

Overview
Who We Are
Revantage, a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company, is a global provider of corporate services.
With a corporate purpose of 'In Pursuit of Better,' Revantage delivers value-added services and world-class talent for Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies, spanning diverse asset classes, including residential, logistics, office, hospitality and retail sectors. Headquartered in Chicago, the company's footprint extends across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Rooted in a commitment to collaboration and inclusivity, Revantage goes beyond traditional corporate services and acts as a trusted partner. Across offerings that include finance, technology, human resources and operations, Revantage proactively anticipates stakeholder needs, recruits exceptional talent and enables its business partners to thrive.
What We Value: Our Culture
Our people are our most important asset, enabling Blackstone portfolio companies and investments to scale and thrive. Together, we foster a workplace where everyone can be themselves, enabling them to do their best work.
At Revantage, we have exceptional people who live our values and help us pursue better every day. We offer dynamic and meaningful work, competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility. We listen and take action to ensure our organization evolves to reflect our employees' voices and support an inclusive culture.
Our demonstrated commitment to our people and collaborative culture have earned us numerous awards as a top employer.
Our culture is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes
• Leaders - We commit to continuous improvement
• Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible
• Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams
• Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners

Grow your career with us. As a member of our team, you'll gain hands-on experience in the real estate industry and benefit from a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth.
Why This Role Is Valuable
The Strategic Initiatives team is responsible for facilitating strategic and business planning processes, delivering and managing a broad portfolio of strategic projects, providing regional and global transformation management services, ensuring operational quality and compliance, and continuously improving operational performance to meet the evolving needs of partners and stakeholders. This role will work broadly across the organization enabling the effective delivery of the organization's value proposition and transformation agenda.
The Senior Associate will conduct research and analysis, develop hypothesis based and data driven recommendations to business challenges, develop and implement operating model enhancements, manage and deliver projects to support the high-impact strategic priorities, drive efficiency, consistency, and speed in operations and develop socialization materials for executive leaders creating value for Blackstone portfolio companies and Revantage. This position is based out of Revantage's headquarters in Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX.
How You Add Value
Strategic Initiatives:

• Strategic planning: Assist in strategic planning processes and the development of strategic plans, business cases, and roadmaps by conducting market research, analyzing industry trends, market dynamics, and customer needs
• Operating model enhancements: Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and optimize resources across the platform by collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data, supporting process reviews, benchmarking, and performance analysis to identify areas of cost savings and operational improvements

Transformation Management:

• Operational Planning: Collaborate with functional leaders to develop and optimize business plans and operational strategies that align to company vision, goals and success measures

• Portfolio Management: Support the portfolio management life cycle from demand management, prioritization, project execution to results management and reporting
• Transformation Management: Establish and manage governance structures and mechanisms to provide oversight and accountability for transformation initiatives
• Benchmarking: Identify leading practices and trends applying insights to enhance the organization's approach and methodologies

Operations:

• Business Partner management: Support partner lifecycle management to include partner onboarding and offboarding strategy and supporting processes and operational support and infrastructure to improve partner experience
• Offering management: Support the lifecycle of service offerings from initial ideation and value proposition development through launch, delivery, and management of offering catalogs and underlying collateral
• Performance measurement: Manage data collection, verification, and report production for in-place offering performance measurement and monthly management reporting
• Offshore delivery center management: Support centralized management of offshore delivery center and support development of thought leadership, accelerators, and repeatable processes to guide partners in developing their offshoring strategies

Platform & Business Support:

• Executive presence: Demonstrate discretion and professionalism when working on sensitive business and organizational issues, manage ambiguity and propose workable solutions to challenging problems

• Decision making: Develop storyboards and analytical frameworks, synthesize findings and identify key insights from analysis of data and qualitative insights

• Project management: Support project planning and execution of business plans and initiatives by managing timelines, deliverables and stakeholder communications effectively
• Change management: Develop change management plans, communicate changes effectively to stakeholders, and support the implementation process to ensure successful execution
• Stakeholder collaboration: Collaborate with Revantage leadership to develop and optimize business strategies that align with company vision, goals and success measures and design operating model transformation initiatives
• Employee engagement: Collaborate with the People & Culture team on hiring initiatives, employee engagement initiatives, and communication - continue to make Revantage a great place to work

What You Bring To The Role
Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, finance, or technology
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated success and experience in Management/Strategy Consulting, Corporate Strategy or Business Transformation, Corporate Finance or Investment Banking
• Ability to think creatively and outside the box to simplify complex metrics and information into easy-to-understand concepts and senior executive messaging
• Action-oriented, creative, strategic thinking that identifies and connects opportunities, sees gaps, and finds points of connectivity across the enterprise
• Courage in challenging thinking and pushing the collective toward better outcomes to improve the health of the business
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Expert verbal and written communication skills developing presentations for a wide variety of audiences
• Demonstrated history of collaboration, inter-personal, and influencing skills
• Comfort in working effectively with people at all levels of an organization, including C-suite
• Passion for enhancing team engagement and value proposition and building an inclusive, equitable, collaborative and fun work environment
• Bias for action, ability to deal with ambiguity, and natural perseverance to overcome obstacles and deliver outcomes when leading change
• Strong team player with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines, while thriving in a fast-paced work environment
• Outstanding record of professional and academic achievement
• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft office tools

Preferred:

• Shared Services Organization Management experience
• Proficiency with Collaboration Tools (e.g., SmartSheet, Teams, SharePoint etc.)
• Proficiency with business intelligence tools

Base Compensation Range :
$140,000.00 To $165,000.00. This represents the presently-anticipated low and high end of the Company's base compensation range for this position. Actual base compensation range may vary based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.
Total Direct Compensation : This job is also eligible for discretionary bonus and incentive compensation on an annual basis.
Benefits : The Company provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
The additional total direct compensation and benefits described above are subject to the terms and conditions of any governing plans, policies, practices, agreements, or other materials or documents as in effect from time to time, including but not limited to terms and conditions regarding eligibility.
Perks for You

• Competitive salary, overall compensation, and 401(k)
• Work-life balance offerings include:
  • Hybrid Work Policy
  • Productivity Hours - weekly meeting-free work time
  • Summer Fridays
  • Work From Anywhere Month
• In-house and external learning & development opportunities
• Generous health insurance and wellness benefits

EEO Statement
Revantage is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant, employee, or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis, including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniformed servicemember status, race, color, caste, immigration status, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation or related medical conditions), age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), protected leave status, domestic violence victim status, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations, if you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email [email protected]
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