
Senior Portfolio Strategist, GREF – Global Strategy
Required skills
- property management
- asset management
- portfolio management
- real estate financial analysis
- program management
- project management
Nice to have
- portfolio opportunity assessment
- strategic investments
- data leveraging
- analytics
- deadline-driven environment
Role summary
Amazon's Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) team is seeking a Senior Portfolio Strategist to lead the creation and execution of AMER transaction strategies. This role involves presenting strategic insights and recommendations to senior leaders for site acquisition, disposition, and optimization. The strategist will align real estate strategy with business needs, leverage data and analytics, and partner with stakeholders to inform space requirements and allocations. The ideal candidate is an experienced, engaging professional with strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving action in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Work hard, have fun, make history. That's what we do every day at Amazon. As a key leader within Amazon's Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) team, the Portfolio Strategist role will oversee the creation and delivery of portfolio-wide AMER transaction strategies down to the city, building and org level. This role will lead the prioritization and presentation of strategic insights and recommendations to lease, build, move, consolidate, close, etc. sites to GREF decision makers and senior business leaders for alignment.
The Portfolio Strategist will be expected to align real estate strategy to business needs in partnership with key GREF Stakeholders and use reporting and research trends to drive meaningful interactions with business leaders that enable data-based decision-making processes. They will use a customer-centric approach, partnering with them to understand and influence space needs and requirements to inform supply and demand allocations. The role will be responsible for developing and presenting recommendations to acquire or dispose of sites by leveraging Amazon’s size and scale and translating business requirements into effective solutions aligned with the workplace strategy.
The optimal candidate is an experienced and engaging professional who will excel within an entrepreneurial culture – providing vision, leadership, and communication – not afraid to dive deep into details, take ownership and think big. They should also understand the nuance of being approachable, while at the same time consultative – providing direction/recommendations and fostering transparent relationships. The candidate must be able to balance frugality with creativity in offering solutions and approach problem-solving with an emphasis on root cause. An ideal candidate can navigate high levels of ambiguity and demonstrate a bias for action, taking calculated risks in a fast-paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally with a wide range of teams, including Amazon Business Orgs, Regional Portfolio Management, Occupancy Planning, Design and Construction, IT, Security, Workplace, Finance and Facilities.
- Lead the creation of city-wide strategy plans for major metro areas and develop portfolio plans that align to business goals, growth projections, customer needs, and market trends.
- Oversee supply and demand (current/forecast) requirements by city and design portfolio strategy scenarios to identify approaches that best align with business goals.
- Identify opportunities and provide guidance to optimize space for all orgs within the existing portfolio and new acquisitions.
- Effectively prioritize work efforts across vendor partner contingency.
- Effectively manage cross-functional engagement with the city, internal stakeholders (SPMs, D&C, MAC, RE&F), and customers to drive coordination of efforts.
Basic Qualifications: - 7+ years of property management, asset management, portfolio management and/or real estate financial analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with written and verbal communication and presentation
- 6+ years of program or project management experience Preferred Qualifications: - Experience assessing portfolio opportunity to make the appropriate long term strategic investments while maintaining the short-term delivery of leads
- Experience working with data and leveraging analytics to make decisions
- Can communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CO, Denver - 132,500.00 - 175,300.00 USD annually
USA, TN, Nashville - 119,300.00 - 157,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 132,500.00 - 175,300.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Houston - 132,500.00 - 175,300.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Irving - 132,500.00 - 175,300.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 132,500.00 - 175,300.00 USD annually
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