Real Estate Asset Strategy and Management Lead

Real Estate Asset Strategy and Management Lead

Telefónica
Telefónica
SpainCompetitiveHybridAdded 4 days agoSenior · 8-10 yearsPermanent🇪🇸Spanish: Fluent

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About the role

REAL ESTATE ASSET STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT LEAD

Telefónica España

Do you want to join a leading company in the technology industry?
We know you are looking for a change…
And that is why, at Telefónica España, we offer you the opportunity to join our team.

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WORK LOCATION: MADRID

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

People with a strong desire to give their all and make a difference. Passionate about innovation and cutting-edge technologies.

With this opportunity, you will be able to dive into the exciting technology universe and be part of the change: a more connected, more human world, full of stories that transform lives.


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WE WANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU...

To define and lead the management and optimization strategy for the corporate real estate portfolio (more than 5,000 assets), ensuring the efficient use of tied-up capital, the reduction of structural costs, and the full alignment of the portfolio with the company's industrial and financial strategy.

The role requires a strategic asset vision, based on financial, analytical, and value-creation criteria, as well as in-depth knowledge of the Real Estate sector.

What you'll do

  • Design the overall portfolio strategy, establishing segmentation criteria (core, non-core, divestible, optimizable) and action priorities.
  • Analyze the profitability, efficiency, and risks of assets, identifying value-creation opportunities and underperforming assets.
  • Develop 3–5 year optimization, rotation, and divestment plans, ensuring their consistency with corporate and financial objectives.
  • Lead business cases for purchase, sale, renovation, or relocation with a macroeconomic perspective that maximizes value and optimizes the cost structure.
  • Coordinate initiatives with the legal, financial, urban planning, and operational areas, ensuring integrated and efficient execution.
  • Present strategic proposals and results reports to Senior Management with technical rigor, a global vision, and a value-driven approach.

WHAT CHALLENGES WILL YOU FACE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS

  • End-to-end execution of asset transactions:

Design and execute the asset marketing strategy, ensuring the creation and management of a portfolio oriented toward optimization and value maximization. This includes the systematic identification of divestment opportunities, improving portfolio profitability, and actively prospecting sales channels and market agents to drive efficient operations aligned with corporate objectives.

  • Operational and strategic portfolio management:

Comprehensive —operational and strategic— management of asset portfolios (residential, office, logistics, commercial, and infrastructure), ensuring their proper operation, maintenance, and alignment with optimization and value-creation objectives.

Marketing and market relations. Coordination of the marketing processes for the designed portfolios, including organizing site visits, liaising with property managers, family offices, funds, real estate agents, suppliers, and public administrations. Driving sale or lease opportunities both individually and in lots.

Lead the end-to-end execution of portfolio rotation transactions (sales, purchases, renovations, relocations), ensuring compliance with deadlines, quality standards, financial criteria, and legal requirements.

Conducting market studies, competitive analysis, and evaluation of sector trends in order to define optimal sale, value-enhancement, and/or leasing strategies, ensuring decisions are based on the overall portfolio strategy.

  • Coordination and compliance in contractual transactions:

Align and comprehensively coordinate the negotiation and formalization process for purchase-sale deeds, private contracts, and lease agreements, in close collaboration with the technical, legal, and financial teams, ensuring the proper preparation, review, and validation of all associated documentation. Ensure rigorous compliance with internal policies, economic objectives, and the execution deadlines established for each transaction.

  • Executive reporting and continuous improvement:

Prepare executive reports and decision proposals for Senior Management, providing a clear, rigorous, and value-driven view of portfolio performance and asset transactions. Drive continuous optimization initiatives —including operational efficiencies and structural cost reductions— through comparative analysis and key metrics. Constantly evaluate the strategy to identify improvement opportunities and define proactive action plans that strengthen the effectiveness, control, and sustainability of the asset management model.

  • Identify, prioritize, and lead the implementation of AI and automation solutions that eliminate manual tasks, improve data exploitation, and support business decision-making. Process simplification and efficiencies.

DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH THIS? IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE LEAP!

What we're looking for

  • Knowledge of automation tools, AI, and advanced Excel (essential).

Nice to have

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THAT ADD VALUE

  • Advanced modeling:
  • Profitability and economic feasibility analysis.
  • Preparation of real estate business plans.
  • Knowledge of the corporate real estate market.
  • Databases:
  • Valuable experience with BI tools (Power BI, SAP RE-FX, etc.).
  • Key competencies:
  • Strategic vision and value-creation orientation.
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Cross-functional influencing ability.
  • Corporate and financial mindset.
  • Autonomy and technical leadership.
  • Synthesis skills for the Executive Committee.

Education & certifications

VALUED EDUCATION

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Architecture, or similar.
  • MBA or postgraduate training in finance (highly valued).

How you'll work

Permanent

About the company & team

Telefónica defines a high-impact culture and a common leadership model that allows us to turn strategy into action, based on three key attitudes:

  • Giving our best
  • Challenging our limits
  • Growing together

And on six capabilities that make the difference on a day-to-day basis:

  • Customer focus
  • Excellence in execution
  • Digital innovation
  • Clarity and courage
  • Driving responsibility
  • Developing people

At Telefónica, we firmly believe that promoting diversity and inclusion is a great opportunity to connect talent, grow as a company, and grow as a society. There is a place at Telefónica for all types of talent; above all, we seek diversity of talent. What is yours?

WHY TELEFÓNICA?

If you join Telefónica, you join one of the TOP TEN technology companies to work for in Spain and a team that never stops reinventing itself to remain a leader in its sector.

And at Telefónica España, we firmly believe that it is people like you who give meaning to technology, not the other way around. We want to make our world more human by connecting people's lives. And for that reason, we aspire to digitalize all of society, leaving no one behind.

In addition, we are one of the best employers:

  • Immersing you in novel and challenging projects.
  • Boosting your professional development through continuous training tailored to your needs and motivations.
  • We are committed to work-life balance. At Telefónica España we promote flexibility, positioning ourselves as a benchmark in new ways of working, schedules, working hours, and work-life balance measures: you will be able to enjoy a hybrid working model.
  • We offer you a permanent contract and very attractive compensation.
  • Life insurance, pension plan, and private medical insurance.
  • Inviting you to participate in our volunteering program.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

  • 8–10 years of experience in:
  • Real estate asset management.
  • Portfolio management at funds or SOCIMIs.
  • Corporate real estate at a large company.
  • Strategic real estate consulting.
  • Demonstrable experience managing a broad and diverse portfolio.
  • Participation in investment/divestment transactions.

Additional information

You must be familiar with our company's Responsible Business Principles. We seek trustworthy professionals with integrity who are committed to ethical and transparent management, promoting fairer and more sustainable social and environmental development.

You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.This job was automatically translated to English, .

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