Real Estate Strategist

Job description

Company Profile:
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Over half (57%) of the company's footprint is in developing and emerging markets. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann's, Lipton, Wall's, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry's, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Our Unilever Sustainable Living Plan is our blueprint for achieving our vision to double the size of the business, whilst reducing our environmental footprint and increasing our positive social impact. The Plan sets stretching targets to achieve by 2020 and includes how we source raw materials and how consumers use our brands. The scale of our ambition means that we are finding new ways to partner with others in business, government and society.
Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That's why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace'.
Real Estate Strategist – NAMET & RUB

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

· Support the Real Estate lead (NAMET, RUB) with the following
· Help drive WPS as an effective business partner
· Deliver the necessary information for the business to make informed decisions

Minimum Criteria

B.Com or BSC. degree (Preferably real estate)
Minimum 1 year exposure to Real Estate and business strategy
· Financial modelling in Excel
· Fully competent in Power point and developing presentations
· Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
· Understanding of function real estate plays within a business
· Travel
10% travel

Main Accountabilities

· Work with local teams to gather business requirements
· Understand macro and micro economic conditions and impact on real estate
· Develop and review financial business cases for real estate transactions (Excel)
· Analyse data and prepare real estate business case based on business requirements and strategy and financial model
· Communicate with and advise local teams about the real estate market and best strategy
· Drive real estate transactions from inception to conclusion
· Document and understand business strategy
· Collect market information
· Identify key partners
· Build business case and circulate for approval
· Build project program
· Set up project team (3 rd parties)
· Manage 3 rd parties
· Manage project administration (PO creation, payments etc)
· Manage online real estate database (Planon)

To Apply:
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