Job Title: Senior Portfolio Strategy PM
Company: Apple Inc.
Location: San Diego, CA

The Software Engineering (SWE) Operations & Planning team is looking for a Senior Portfolio Strategy Program Manager to join our Space and Lab Planning team. Responsible for driving long-term real estate planning for Software Engineering globally by developing and maintaining headcount projections by market. This presents an excellent opportunity for an independent and self-motivated individual to demonstrate their business acumen, critical thinking, collaboration and relationship-building skills, and execution prowess to make meaningful impact.

You will be a key point of contact with Apple's central Space Planning function, advocating for Software Engineering's needs across work spaces, labs, and amenity space requests. You will be tasked with creating long-term occupancy planning strategies and leverage analytics to support executive-level reporting and strategic real estate portfolio decisions. You will work cross-functionally with Places, senior leadership, and engineering leads to deliver world-class customer support to our teams. You will also be tasked with providing actionable data visualizations and insights to our internal customers by partnering with the Tools & Insights team to develop dashboards and reports to help drive decisions for space forecasting, allocation, and planning.

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated and proactive problem solver who can think strategically and have a customer-focused mindset. We are looking for someone who possesses a high level of integrity, creativity, initiative, accountability, communication and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to teamwork and excellence. You are comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement work space strategies aligned to staffing trends and objectives of the organization
• Develop scenario modeling to analyze the impact of headcount changes on markets and recommend updated plans and rebalance as needed
• Evaluate space utilization and develop strategies to optimize portfolio; articulate occupancy risks and propose mitigation strategies
• Drive data management strategy and lead development of space planning reporting tools and develop data visualizations that will help to quickly and thoroughly answer commonly asked questions about space and space allocation
• Partner with key business and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute plans for securing and allocating space to enable world-class work environments
• Support business units in the development of more precise future headcount and specialty space needs
• Identify, document, and drive policy and process improvement initiatives to create efficiencies and improve transparency
• Consolidate and validate data from multiple sources to drive intelligent decision making

Well-organized, self-starter that is able to balance multiple projects with minimal supervision in a dynamic environment. Ability to discern and manage business requirements and projects that have competing priorities.

Strong leadership and relationship building skills; proven ability to partner and drive results with cross-functional teams. Excellent communication skills and an aptitude for blending qualitative and quantitative data into executive level presentations and messaging. Ability to understand business processes and work with large data sets to derive key insights to create space forecast models; Experience developing and working with Tableau dashboards, ability to create clear and concise visualizations. Proficiency with Excel, Numbers, and Keynote, in addition to a suite of enterprise tools including Tableau and Tririga application suite. 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience Bachelors Degree