Senior Consultant – Strategic Real Estate Advisory (Defence)

Company: Turner & Townsend
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Location: Edinburgh
Job Description:

Overview

As an Associate Consultant in Real Estate Advisory, you help clients shape major estate and infrastructure investment programmes across defence and broader public sector. You’ll work with multi-disciplinary teams to define investment needs, scope, outcomes, and evidence-based recommendations. You’ll engage senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, and develop robust business cases aligned to Treasury guidelines. This role offers exposure to high‑impact projects and a culture that values career growth and client outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

  • flexible working environment
  • healthy work-life balance
  • inclusive work culture
  • voice to affect change
  • opportunity for career growth
  • competitive compensation (implied)

Responsibilities

  • Define investment needs and outcomes for estate and infrastructure programmes
  • Develop strategic business cases and investment strategies
  • Support option development, appraisal, and scope definition
  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement and workshops
  • Produce high-quality reports and presentations for senior decision makers
  • Support governance, assurance, and approvals processes
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on capital investment programmes
  • Develop benefits management and realisation planning
  • Ensure compliance with HMT Green Book for public sector cases
  • Position proposals for private sector clients and support programme mobilisation

Key requirements

  • Experience in defence, government, real estate, infrastructure, or consulting
  • Proficiency in strategic planning and investment decision support
  • Ability to define business or operational needs
  • Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
  • Business case development and investment appraisal
  • Estate or infrastructure planning and governance and assurance
  • Ability to produce senior-level reports and presentations
  • Option appraisal and benefits management
  • Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
  • Collaborative teamwork with senior clients
  • Structured problem solving
  • Business case development
  • Option appraisal and investment appraisal
  • Benefits management and realisation planning

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Posted: September 30th, 2026