Talent & Organization – Real Estate Associate

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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 sponsor backed corporate structure.
• Experience operating in a talent/human capital adjacent function preferred.
• Experience operating in a global context across the US, EU and Asia preferred.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at HR-Recruiting-Americas@Blackstone.com.

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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