Assistant Director, Transformation, Change Management, Operating Model - Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management

About this role

Basic information

Business Line

Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

17-Jul-2026

Req #

24216

Job description

Connect to your Industry

This is your opportunity to join the Deloitte Real Estate advisory team (which is part of our wider Infrastructure & Real Estate business unit, within our Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory service line). This blends consulting, finance, construction, digital and property skills to address the most complex challenges in real estate and facilities management.

We are the go-to strategic advisor to a global network of corporate and public sector clients when it comes to Real Estate and Facilities Management consultancy. We utilise the latest technology and industry insights to help clients optimise their real estate and facilities management operations to achieve their corporate and strategic goals.

We are looking for curious minds who will join one of the largest and most respected real estate advisory teams in the UK. You will be joining to a multi-disciplinary team of chartered surveyors, cost consultants, project managers, engineers, technology specialists and accountants.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Are you a seasoned transformation leader passionate about shaping the future of Real Estate and Facilities Management? We are seeking an Assistant Director to join our dynamic team, driving significant strategic change for our diverse client portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to lead high-impact engagements, leveraging your expertise in Corporate Real Estate (CRE) and Facilities Management (FM) to deliver innovative solutions for complex, large-scale organisations."

Either coming from management consulting or from one of the major FM or RE companies, you’ll be part of a team working with industry’s highest profile Occupier consultancy engagements.

In this role you will be expected to support client engagements across a range of industries. Some of these may look like:

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For a large pharmaceutical company, creation and implementation of a new operating model across the organisation’s entire real estate portfolio. Including:

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Preparing the business case for change leading the cost benefits analysis of the new RE / FM operating model

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Developing the CRE and FM strategy for the delivery of a high-profile facilities and workplace services transformation programme;

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Leading a team of consultants to manage the change and implementation processes

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Design and establishment of a new target operating model for a client organisation, including the supply chain and service delivery models;

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Working alongside with the client’s senior Real Estate and Facilities personnel, and leading a team of 3 Deloitte consultants to develop the procurement outsourcing strategy and business case for facilities and estate management activities across 200 locations across the UK for a public sector client;

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Conducting options analysis around development of technology and AI solutions for the next generation of FM and RE services for a major Bank – including analysis of the existing technology landscape, workplace applications and identifying value creation through technology and AI in FM / RE.

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Preparation of robust business cases supported by detailed strategic sourcing and category plans, including an in-depth analysis of potential service delivery models.

There are four key reasons this opportunity presents an excellent prospect for successful applicants:

1. You will work with the biggest clients, global organisations

We work with the world’s largest and most influential organisations. In addition to our public sector focus, we support a cross sector of global private sector organisations (including Financial Services, Energy, and Life Sciences, Telecoms and Technology) with significant Real Estate portfolios and Facilities Management requirements.

2. You will work on the most relevant, pressing, and complex challenges

There has never been a more exciting time to work with our clients on the challenges they face. Our clients’ Real Estate and FM functions are supporting their organisations in evolving to embrace the future of work, disrupting the RE market with AI and adapt to post-pandemic ways of working. Their employees are acting as consumers, making choices about when / how / why they consume space, and physical space can be a key attraction to talent for the best organisations. However, the economic environment provides critical challenges such as the need to significantly reduce cost, through leveraging new / lower cost locations, reducing portfolio size, restructuring the supply chain and service delivery models and making an impact on the bottom line by lowering operational spend.

These are generational challenges for our clients, with which they need our support.

3. You will engage with senior stakeholder of organisations

The breadth, strategic importance and complexity of our clients’ challenges mean we work with colleagues from across Deloitte (e.g. Human Capital, Digital), and engage with the C-suite in our client’s organisations. We frequently engage with CEOs, COOs, CFOs, HR Directors of FTSE 100 organisations.

4. You will be part of a high performing team with the opportunities to develop your career in a large professional services firm and the opportunities that can provide

We take personal development seriously, offering a comprehensive range of learning and development opportunities within a stretching yet highly supportive environment. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive so you will receive continuous training and ongoing supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. You will be part of an environment where excellent client service, creativity, hard work and ambition are rewarded.

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