AVP, Strategy & Operations

Revantage a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company is a global provider of corporate services.

With a corporate purpose of In Pursuit of Better Revantage delivers value-added services and world-class talent for Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies spanning diverse asset classes including residential logistics office hospitality and retail sectors. Headquartered in Chicago the companys footprint extends across North America Europe and Asia Pacific.

Rooted in a commitment to collaboration and inclusivity Revantage goes beyond traditional corporate services and acts as a trusted partner. Across offerings that include finance technology human resources and operations Revantage proactively anticipates stakeholder needs recruits exceptional talent and enables its business partners to thrive.

What We Value: Our Culture

Our people are our most important asset enabling Blackstone portfolio companies and investments to scale and thrive. Together we foster a workplace where everyone can be themselves enabling them todo their best work.

At Revantage we have exceptional people who live our values and help us pursue better every day. We offer dynamic and meaningful work competitive compensation benefits and flexibility. We listen and take action to ensure our organization evolves to reflect our employees voices and support an inclusive culture.

Our demonstrated commitment to our people and collaborative culture have earned us numerous awards as a top employer.

Our culture is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Learners We learn from our challenges and successes

• Leaders We commit to continuous improvement

• Enthusiasts We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible

• Achievers We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams

• Partners We deliver value and positive impact to our partners

Grow your career with us. As a member of our team youll gain hands-on experience in the real estate industry and benefit from a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth.

Why This Role Is Valuable

The Strategy & Operations team is responsible for facilitating strategic and business planning processes delivering and managing a broad portfolio of strategic projects providing regional and global transformation management services ensuring operational quality and compliance and continuously improving operational performance to meet the evolving needs of partners and stakeholders. This role will work broadly across the organization enabling the effective delivery of the organizations value proposition and transformation agenda.

The AVP will conduct research and analysis develop hypothesis based and data driven recommendations to business challenges develop and implement operating model enhancements manage and deliver projects to support the high-impact strategic priorities drive efficiency consistency and speed in operations and develop socialization materials for executive leaders creating value for Blackstone portfolio companies and Revantage. This position is based out of Revantages headquarters in Chicago IL.

How You Add Value

Strategic Initiatives

• Strategic planning: Assist and facilitate strategic planning processes and the development of strategic plans business cases and roadmaps by conducting market research analyzing industry trends market dynamics and customer needs

• Operating model enhancements: Identify opportunities to streamline processes improve efficiency and optimize resources across the platform by collecting analyzing and synthesizing data supporting process reviews benchmarking and performance analysis to identify areas of cost savings and operational improvements

Transformation Management:

• Operational Planning: Collaborate with functional leaders to develop and optimize business plans and operational strategies that align to company vision goals and success measures

• Portfolio Management: Support the portfolio management life cycle from demand management prioritization project execution to results management and reporting

• Transformation Management: Establish and manage governance structures and mechanisms to provide oversight and accountability for transformation initiatives

• Change management: Develop change management plans communicate changes effectively to stakeholders and support the implementation process to ensure successful execution

• Benchmarking: Identify leading practices and trends applying insights to enhance the organizations approach and methodologies

Operations:

• Business Partner management: Support partner lifecycle management to include partner onboarding and offboarding strategy and supporting processes and operational support and infrastructure to improve partner experience

• Offering management: Support the lifecycle of service offerings from initial ideation and value proposition development through launch delivery and management of offering catalogs and underlying collateral

• Performance measurement: Manage data collection verification and report production for in-place offering performance measurement and monthly management reporting

• Offshore delivery center management: Support centralized management of offshore delivery center and support development of thought leadership accelerators and repeatable processes to guide partners in developing their offshoring strategies

Platform & Business Support:

• Executive presence: Demonstrate discretion and professionalism when working on sensitive business and organizational issues manage ambiguity and propose workable solutions to challenging problems

• Decision making: Develop storyboards and analytical frameworks synthesize findings and identify key insights from analysis of data and qualitative insights

• Project management: Support project planning and execution of business plans and initiatives by managing timelines deliverables and stakeholder communications effectively

• Stakeholder collaboration: Collaborate with Revantage leadership to develop and optimize business strategies that align with company vision goals and success measures and design operating model transformation initiatives

• Employee engagement: Collaborate with the People & Culture team on hiring initiatives employee engagement initiatives and communication - continue to make Revantage a great place to work

What You Bring To The Role

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in business engineering finance or technology

• Minimum 6 years of demonstrated success and experience in Management/Strategy Consulting Corporate Strategy or Business Transformation Corporate Finance or Investment Banking

• Ability to think creatively and outside the box to simplify complex metrics and information into easy-to-understand concepts and senior executive messaging

• Action-oriented creative strategic thinking that identifies and connects opportunities sees gaps and finds points of connectivity across the enterprise

• Courage in challenging thinking and pushing the collective toward better outcomes to improve the health of the business

• Expert analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills

• Expert verbal and written communication skills developing presentations for a wide variety of audiences

• Demonstrated history of collaboration inter-personal and influencing skills

• Comfort in working effectively with people at all levels of an organization including C-suite

• Passion for enhancing team engagement and value proposition and building an inclusive equitable collaborative and fun work environment

• Bias for action ability to deal with ambiguity and natural perseverance to overcome obstacles and deliver outcomes when leading change

• Strong team player with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while thriving in a fast-paced work environment

• Outstanding record of professional and academic achievement

• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft office tools

Preferred:

• Shared Services Organization Management experience

• Proficiency with Collaboration Tools (e.g. SmartSheet Teams SharePoint etc.)

• Proficiency with business intelligence tools

Base Compensation Range:

Total Direct Compensation:

This job is also eligible for discretionary bonus and incentive compensation on an annual basis.

Benefits: The Company provides a variety of benefits to employees including health insurance coverage retirement savings plan paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

The additional total direct compensation and benefits described above are subject to the terms and conditions of any governing plans policies practices agreements or other materials or documents as in effect from time to time including but not limited to terms and conditions regarding eligibility.

Perks for You

• Competitive salary overall compensation and 401(k)

• Work-life balance offerings include:

  • Hybrid Work Policy

  • Productivity Hours weekly meeting-free work time

  • Summer Fridays

  • Work From Anywhere Month

• In-house and external learning & development opportunities

• Generous health insurance and wellness benefits

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EEO Statement

Revantage is an equal opportunity accordance with applicable law we prohibit discrimination against any applicant employee or other covered person based on any legally recognized basis including but not limited to: veteran status uniformed servicemember status race color caste immigration status religion religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices) sex gender gender expression gender identity marital status sexual orientation pregnancy (including childbirth lactation or related medical conditions) age national origin or ancestry citizenship physical or mental disability genetic information (including testing and characteristics) protected leave status domestic violence victim status or any other consideration protected by federal state or local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations if you need an accommodation to complete the application process please email