Senior Manager, Workplace Strategy, Projects, and Transactions

Job Title:

Senior Manager, Workplace Strategy, Projects, and Transactions

Requisition ID:

R019684

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Manager - Workplace Strategy, Projects and Transactions

Reporting To: Head of Global Workplace Strategy and Business Operations Actions

Department: Workplace

Location: Los Angeles, CA or New York, NY

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

The ABK Workplace Organization is part of Activision's CAO Organization and is responsible for delivering excellence through safe, cost effective real estate strategies and services. With a portfolio of over 2 million sq. ft. across the globe, Activision's workplace is a critical to delivering on the company's strategic goals while serving as a destination for employee collaboration and productivity.

Globally across Activision, Blizzard and King (ABK), you will be responsible for managing a team of two expert workplace analysts and leading initiatives for three functional heads within the Global Workplace Organization - the Global Head of Workplace Strategy, Global Head of Transactions and Global Head of Design & Construction.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Workplace Strategy: Responsible for the management of the workplace financial and operational data - embedding analysis, data, and reasoning into the decision-making processes. This includes data management, developing cases and financial/data models, defining processes, management reporting and collaborating with Finance.
• Data Governance and Management: Partner with global and regional management teams to ensure alignment of financial and portfolio data.
• Management Reporting: Support of culture of data-driven decision making through enhanced governance and analytics. Identify and implement system and data enhancements to ensure continuous improvement.
• Financial and Portfolio Modeling: Develop financial models and cases for critical decisions, including post-approval tracking through completion. Perform portfolio analytics globally across ABK for Workplace - design, develop and promote use of reporting, dashboards, and metrics to provide effective oversight of ABK's portfolio.
• Transactions: In partnership with the Global Head of Transactions, responsible for the development of transaction strategy, reporting and analysis, including broker engagement, market surveys, mark to market assessments, lease option reporting and site tours.
• Transaction Strategy and Analysis: Support the development of lease transaction strategies that are aligned to business unit strategic goals while optimizing for economics, flexibility, and efficiency. Lead the development of financial modeling and analysis as it relates to comparing options of different locations and terms.
• Transaction Reporting: Develop and maintain a process/system for managing critical lease dates. This includes timely socialization of upcoming decisions for senior management, timely market engagements and coordination with all internal Workplace partners. Also includes the implementation and roll-out of a transaction management database.
• Design & Construction: In partnership with the Global Head of Design and Construction, responsible for project budgeting, approvals, reporting and cost control initiatives.
• Project Budgeting and Approvals: Partner with Operations, Transactions, and external project management teams to develop robust cost estimates that are aligned to the requested scope. Refine these budgets throughout the detailed design phase until project commencement.
• Project Reporting and Cost Controls: Support the development and implementation of a sustainable project reporting and cost control regime, including senior management project progress dashboards, escalation points, PO control and budget contingency management.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• Previous experience in similar role
• Proficient in the use of Tableau or other Data Visualization Platforms
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets
• Knowledge of accounting, strong capabilities in financial modelling
• Ability to communicate information and concepts clearly and logically, setting time specific and achievable expectations at all levels of the organization
• Solid understanding of principles and practices of project management
• Proactive in identifying improvement opportunities and helping the team understand the best way to achieve goals.
• Experience to influence and direct teams remotely
• Understanding of the whole property life cycle.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office / Google Suite
• Effectively problem solve and resolve a variety of issues and topics within the job scope
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills including strong grammatical skills
• Ability to work both independently and cooperatively in a fast-paced environment
• Deliver a range of analysis activities - data extraction, analysis, and recommendations
• Technical / systems knowledge, experience and capabilities required with direct exposure to Real Estate and Facilities Data systems (e.g. CoStar & JIRA), database management and reporting tools (e.g. Tableau, Looker, QlikView, Qlik Sense)

Extra Points:

• Previous working knowledge of Google BigQuery / Google Cloud Platform
• Qualified Accountant is desirable (CIMA / ACCA / ACA / CA etc.)
• Previous knowledge of CoStar

COVID-19 Hiring Update

This role is anticipated to be assigned to work fully on-site at an Activision Blizzard office.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to [email protected] General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet.

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $105,120.00 - $194,400.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.