Senior Portfolio Planning Manager, Real Estate – Real Estate Portfolio Planning

Job Description

Senior Portfolio Planning Manager, Real Estate | Microsoft

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Microsoft, located in Mountain View, CA. The Microsoft Global Workplace Services (GWS) team is focused on empowering every organization and individual at Microsoft to achieve more, striving to deliver the workspaces and services that enable individuals to achieve their highest potential. This role is pivotal in shaping and optimizing Microsoft’s corporate real estate portfolio for assigned business groups, delivering data-driven space solutions. Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how the company partners with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions, fostering a growth mindset culture.

The TL;DR
• Role: Mid-Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Mountain View, CA
• Pay: $97600–$206400 yearly
• Team: GWS, partnering with internal business groups
• Mission: Strategically plan, analyze, and optimize the real estate portfolio for assigned business groups to deliver data-driven space solutions while balancing Microsoft’s real estate strategic goals.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Develop Portfolio Plans: Develop and implement immediate and multi-year portfolio and occupancy plans, including comprehensive occupancy plans that reflect current and projected headcount, business objectives, and specialty space forecasts for assigned business groups.
• Optimize Strategies: Optimize portfolio and occupancy strategies for internal business groups, collaborating closely with other Portfolio Planning Managers to maximize space utilization and efficiency.
• Serve as Specialist: Serve as a subject matter specialist in the development of real estate business cases for select business groups.
• Drive Alignment: Drive alignment between business partners and GWS real estate teams by providing clarity and guidance when navigating ambiguity and evaluating trade-offs.
• Oversee Project Execution: Oversee project execution for approved space plans, ensuring strategies support business group objectives and meet established optimization criteria, timelines, and expectations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience OR 5+ years of equivalent experience. Preferred: 5+ years of portfolio management, real estate, or office management experience OR 7+ years of equivalent experience.
• Skills: Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex documents and data; apply long-term, strategic perspective and forecasting; understand workplace, financial, and organizational dynamics; exhibit solid communication skills to present information clearly.
• Bonus: A continuous improvement mindset with a passion for optimizing space solutions and driving innovation within the company.