Talent & Organization – Real Estate Associate

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
 

Reporting to the Global Talent Lead for Real Estate, the Blackstone Talent & Organization Real Estate Associate will be responsible for enabling Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies (“portco)” to execute on key talent, organizational and compensation initiatives. This includes supporting BX RE Talent and Compensation leads in the communication, deployment, execution, and project management of key human capital strategic capabilities across the portfolio globally. By ensuring seamless and efficient execution, the associate will help forge trusted advisor relationships both with the Real Estate Asset Management team and the portco leadership teams globally.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with Portfolio Talent Lead to drive critical talent initiatives.
• Supporting the annual portco review process across the Americas, EU and Asia regions.
• Partnering with the Executive Compensation Lead to drive effective annual compensation, KPI and goal setting processes.
• Facilitating the contact profile creation and document management of all opportunistic introductionsinto contact management systems.
• Partnering with portcos to support the execution of annual organizational assessments and organizational design initiatives.
• Supporting the ongoing reporting requirements for Blackstone Real Estate Talent.

Qualifications:          

Blackstone seeks candidates who are highly motivated and creative individuals and who have demonstrated professional and/or academic achievements, who can work independently and as a member of a team. We are looking for candidates interested in being leaders who will add innovative perspectives to our business.

Critical qualifications for this role will include:

• Managing execution: Translate strategy and vision into actionable plans to achieve desired results. Establish clear goals, break down tasks effectively, and direct resources efficiently. Drive accountability with effective communication and follow up.
• Engaging and influencing: Proactively invest in ongoing professional relationships and dialogue across the organization and externally; build trust with and adeptly serve as a thought partner to portco executive teams on all critical talent related initiatives. Communicate effectively to shape stakeholder agendas and build a broad base of support both inside and outside the organization.
• Communicate effectively: Communicates in messages with clarity, projects a credible and confident image to a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders and audiences to maximize impact.
• Values Strong Professional Relationships:  Develop strong working relationships to allow for a thorough understanding of how the business works. Engender trust and treat others with respect, showing an openness to different ways of thinking.
• Business Mindset: Understands the business objectives and keeps those as your guiding stars when giving advice. Know how to go beyond pure theory, and combine it with practical, business-oriented advice to help the company move forward.

In addition to the above, the successful candidate must meet the following additional qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in consulting or similar professional services environment.
• Proficient in the use of analytical tools, database management and the creation of executive level briefing packets.
• Experience in project management for multi-workstream initiatives across a distributed client set preferred.
• Communicates effectively across a diverse set of stakeholders in a