Sr. Associate, Strategy & Operations

Who We Are
Revantage is a Blackstone Company that provides a highly skilled employee base, best-in-class processes, and state-of-the-art technology to multiple Blackstone real estate portfolio companies. Sectors include Hospitality, Industrial, Multi-Family, Office, Retail, Senior Housing, and Manufactured Homes.
Revantage, headquartered in Chicago, is one of three global offices that includes Revantage Asia and Revantage Europe.
What We Value: Our Culture
Creating a culture that inspires change and momentum require the right team. We know what it takes to lead an industry, and are looking for leaders who seek constant growth, want to excel, and continuously improve upon themselves and the industry. The culture at Revantage is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Leaders - We commit to continuously improve our performance
• Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes
• 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

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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 organization's value proposition and transformation agenda.
The Senior Associate 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 Revantage's headquarters in Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX.
How You Add Value
Strategic Initiatives

• Strategic planning: Assist in 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
• Benchmarking: Identify leading practices and trends applying insights to enhance the organization's 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
• Change management: Develop change management plans, communicate changes effectively to stakeholders, and support the implementation process to ensure successful execution
• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, finance, or technology
• Minimum 3 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
• Exceptional 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

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

EEO Statement
Revantage is an equal opportunity employer. In 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 [email protected]