Real Estate Programme Manager in Manchester, England at Hoxton

About Hoxton

Hoxton is a client-side workplace partner working across real estate, workplace strategy, workplace environment, and the wider decisions that shape workplace performance.

We're built for clients who want clear thinking, commercial judgement, and delivery that holds up in the real world. We say what we think, we make the call, and we stay close to the work from first conversation through to handover.

This is not a business built on layers, scripts, or politics. It's built on the people who do the work, and we're careful about who we bring in to represent us.

Workplace Partners, Built Different.

What We Are Recruiting For

We're looking for an experienced real estate professional to lead global portfolio optimisation programmes on behalf of our clients.

You'll own the programme end to end, from shaping the portfolio strategy through to negotiating the transactions and planning the works that deliver it. Our clients are global, so you'll be working with colleagues, landlords and partners across multiple regions and time zones, which means some flexibility outside core hours and some travel.

Success in this role is measured in outcomes. Consolidated portfolios that are fit for purpose, cost efficient, and support the client's business strategy.

What You Will Do

Strategy development. Work with stakeholders and function leads to further develop the portfolio strategy for physical spaces.

Programme management. Provide updates at agreed governance forums on progress against strategy, including realisation of benefits for individual transactions and investment requests for future transactions.

Options analysis and modelling. Develop and consider options across multiple dimensions for spaces within the portfolio, based on inputs from business strategy, commercial goals, lease restrictions and market data, and make sound recommendations on how to deliver the agreed strategy.

Transaction management. Work with internal teams, landlords and partners across the globe to negotiate transactions across the full lifecycle, including new sites, moves, renewals, downsizes and terminations, and optimise opportunities such as break clauses and rent reviews.

Project management and scheduling. Work with the real estate lead to plan the execution of works, including relocations, move outs, shut downs, build outs and temporary swing spaces, so business disruption is kept to a minimum.

What You Bring

• Expertise with lease negotiations and developing lease agreements
• A track record of managing design and build partners to deliver projects on time and in budget
• Projects delivered with measurable outcomes
• Numeracy, particularly with the principles of real estate finance such as capital expenditure and depreciation
• Comfort evidencing outcomes through data

About You

• Highly organised, with a detail-oriented mindset
• Strong project management and delivery execution skills
• A quick learner with positive energy
• Decisive, and able to articulate your decisions clearly to stakeholders of varying levels and backgrounds
• You understand the importance of change management
• Flexible and collaborative
• Comfortable working with legal, finance and operations teams

Nice to Have

• Portfolio experience across more than one region, particularly APAC, LATAM or North America
• Experience working client-side rather than agency or landlord side
• Experience building and maintaining portfolio-level data and reporting
• Additional languages, given the global nature of the work

Why Hoxton

Hoxton isn't a large consultancy with layers of hierarchy and well-worn playbooks. We're building something different.

Joining Hoxton means rolling up your sleeves and helping build a consultancy from the ground up. You'll work closely with senior people, see how the business runs, and play a real part in shaping it.

Your work will go out into the world. Not into a folder.

If you want a predictable environment with rigid structures, Hoxton probably isn't the right place.

If you want a real first chapter, or your next one, with proper responsibility and the chance to build alongside us, you'll feel at home here.

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