Real Estates Liaison Lead

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Job Overview

Are you looking for a career move that will place you in a global financial organization? Then bring your organizational, problem solving and excellent communication skills to Citi.

By joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

The Real Estate Liaison Lead will be responsible for managing global seat inventories and space utilization with focus on NAM, driving strategic transformation in real estate use, and optimizing operational costs. This role requires a proactive individual with strong analytical and project management skills to support internal businesses and collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance real estate efficiency.

What you will do:

• Real Estate Interface & Inventory Management:
  • Manage the Real Estate interface, overseeing global seat inventories and space utilization information to support internal businesses.
  • Extract and report data from real estate inventory systems (e.g., Archibus/Web Central).
  • Maintain and update seating, floor plan, and cost center data within Archibus, including GOCs (Global Occupancy Codes) and seat registrations.
  • Process space request forms, Corporate Move Program (CMP) requests for moves, Citi Immigration, and RLP (Real Estate Lifecycle Planning) approvals.
• Space Optimization & Cost Reduction:
  • Drive transformational changes related to space use, seat sharing, utilization, and optimization.
  • Develop and deliver reporting and presentations to demonstrate opportunities for reducing operating costs and enhancing real estate efficiency through precise space allocations and waste reduction.
  • Champion the Citi Works seat sharing model, driving over-subscription targets and promoting enabling technologies.
  • Partner with Real Estate to optimize the existing footprint to solve seat demands internally before requesting additional space.
• Strategic Planning:
  • Collaborate with Citi Realty Services on strategic planning for future real estate growth and space releases to achieve cost savings.
• Data Analysis & Reporting:
  • Conduct comprehensive data analysis for all real estate projects, including headcounts, real estate inventories, seat utilization, and work patterns.
  • Provide businesses with insights into how real estate portfolio efficiency contributes to business objectives and cost reduction.
  • Generate weekly real estate reports.
• Project Management (Campus Restacks & Densification):
  • Manage campus restack projects aimed at creating additional seating capacity.
  • Coordinate and communicate all aspects of personnel moves, workplace reconfigurations, construction timelines, technology and equipment changes, and post-move support.
  • Lead densification efforts to accommodate growth within leaner, cost-efficient footprints.
• Liaison & Stakeholder Coordination:
  • Act as a primary liaison between Real Estate and the business for various real estate initiatives.
  • Facilitate communications with Technology teams regarding the above initiatives and office seating arrangements.
  • Coordinate with Corporate Security and Investigative Services (CSIS) and Citi Technology Infrastructure (CTI) during office changes for tasks such as badge access modifications, deployment of new technology (e.g., laptops), and provision of user lists.
• Space Utilization & Forecasting:
  • Collaborate with Real Estate to right-size business footprint based on utilization data.
  • Identify and manage the reallocation of underutilized seats to other businesses.
  • Collaborate with the RLP contact from your business to ensure the RLP tool is updated on a quarterly basis and to make corrections as needed if RLP data is inaccurate, supporting both space management and headcount forecasting.
• Documentation & Communication:
  • Maintain and update a SharePoint site for storing and sharing critical documents related to multiple large-scale projects.

What do we need from you:

• 6-8 years of proven experience in an analytical role - real estate management, space planning might serve as an asset.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and generate actionable insights.
• Flexibility and a proactive approach to collaborating across diverse regions, readily adapting to North American time zones for seamless meeting participation
• Experience with real estate inventory systems (e.g., Archibus/Web Central) is highly desirable.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal businesses and stakeholders at all levels. Excellent written and verbal English knowledge is a must.
• Proficiency in creating reports and presentations to convey strategic information.
• Familiarity with technologies promoting flexible work environments (e.g., VDI cloud computing) is a plus.

What we can offer:

By joining Citi Hungary, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive compensation package and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well:

• Cafeteria Program
• Home Office Allowance (for colleagues working in hybrid work models)
• Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave)
• Private Medical Care Program and onsite medical rooms at our offices
• Pension Plan Contribution to voluntary pension fund
• Group Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to a wide variety of learning and development programs, online course libraries and upskilling platforms, such as Udemy and Degreed
• Flexible work arrangements to support you in managing work - life balance
• Career progression opportunities across geographies and business lines
• Socially active employee communities with diverse networking opportunities

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities

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Job Family Group:

Corporate Services

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Job Family:

Supply Chain

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

14 768 850,00 Ft - 24 762 350,00 Ft

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Automated Processing and AI

We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening. Additionally, if you so choose, or consent, we can match your skills and abilities to other suitable roles at Citi.

Importantly, all our hiring processes and decisions, including determining your suitability for a role, are conducted, checked, and decided by individuals. Our automated processing and AI do not involve relying on automatic or autonomous decision-making. Please refer to any Jurisdictional Considerations, with specific provisions for your country (where relevant) for further details.

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