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Senior Office Strategy & Occupancy Planning Manager
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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential - whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or an exciting new direction, we offer opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. We’re one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network that covers more than 50 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.
We are seeking a Senior Office Strategy & Occupancy Planning Manager, Global Real Estate Services
You will be responsible for operationalising and supporting real estate strategy across our non retail portfolio and lead on occupancy planning. This is a key role in shaping and managing the relationship with our supplier partners and ensure a robust framework is in place and adopted across geographies consistently. You’ll lead the occupancy planning operating model and embed insight-led portfolio planning, using occupancy, capacity and utilisation tools and analytics to inform portfolio strategy, options and investment decisions.
You’ll work closely with the RES team to support demand planning with input on workforce plans and headcount projections embedding this into the office planning process, whilst facilitating the provision of data and insights required to support strategy planning and decision making.
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As an HSBC employee in the UK, you’ll have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
In this role, you will:
- Translate business priorities into actionable portfolio direction and provide decision-ready occupancy, capacity and utilisation insights.
- Ensure consistent tools, artefacts, evaluation criteria and decision governance across regions/markets.
- Act as SPOC for Demand Planning, aligning real estate plans with workforce plans and headcount projections (using talent/labour market intelligence).
- Provide end-to-end oversight of the global BC pipeline, assuring accuracy, securing endorsement, and progressing approvals through the right forums/systems.
- Oversee outsourced partners delivering strategy/analytics; drive simplification, automation and standardisation to improve planning effectiveness and decision speed.
To be successful in this role you should have the following skills:
- Extensive experience with Real Estate capacity/space planning and utilisation reporting, producing decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders.
- Establishing governance, frameworks and standard ways of working across a Real Estate multi-market environment.
- Proven ability to set direction/outcomes with outsourced partners and maintain performance oversight through to resolution (including managing seconded resources where relevant).
- Ability to engage and influence diverse senior audiences; communicate complex issues clearly and concisely.
- Consulting-style problem solving using data to shape office strategy; understanding of workplace strategy/standards.
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Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk via hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com.
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