Join our Tribe – Exponential outcomes through exceptional people
25 May 2022,
by Dean Croucher
E22 = (IQ + EQ + C) * P
The TwentyTwo Tribe creates exponential property outcomes (E22) for many of New Zealand’s largest and most well-known businesses.
We deliver exceptional value and innovative solutions for our diverse clients across property, workplace, infrastructure and technology by working together and building trusting relationships.
Critical to our success is the fusion of technical excellence (IQ), engaging leadership (EQ), unrivalled experience and capability (C) and our 30+-year “playbook” of know-how (P).
Across our offices in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington, we provide a flexible and fun work-life experience working with stellar clients and solving complex issues alongside industry leaders.
To grow our Tribe, we have several roles available across our business:
Property Adviser(s) – (Auckland, Tauranga or Wellington)
Workplace Technology Adviser(s) – (Auckland or Wellington)
Strategic Analyst – (Auckland, Tauranga or Wellington)
If you have the IQ and EQ to help to deliver E22 and want to be part of a vibrant Tribe that will support your professional and personal growth, we want to hear from you!
Snapshot descriptions for each role are outlined below. If these sound like you, email us today for the full job descriptions on the individual roles and details on our expectations.
1. Strategic Analyst
About us
TwentyTwo’s Strategy22 team is at the confluence of management consulting and property advisory. We work alongside CEs and leaders to help align their business planning with their asset/property planning. We do this by helping businesses understand how their investment in property, infrastructure and other assets can in fact be a catalyst for wider change, that can deliver transformative outcomes for their strategic intent, their organisation and their workforce. Through our collective intelligence across business, property, infrastructure, workplace and technology, we straddle the physical and virtual landscape, providing a current and new-world view in an increasingly complex operating environment.
About the role
We need exceptional business thinkers to support the work we do. You will get to work closely with large organisations with complex businesses and often complex and diverse property and infrastructure. You will get to engage with the leaders of these businesses (public, private, NFP) and help them transform their organisations by applying a fresh lens to their “property”. You will help create strategies, plans, roadmaps and strategic artefacts by running workshops and interviews and engaging with diverse stakeholders, undertaking indepth research and discovery, applying critical thinking and analysis and preparing reports and visual presentations that provide key insights.
About you
You will have a tertiary qualification in something that made you think (like business or law) or in management consulting, planning, property, accounting, economics or a related discipline. You will be curious. You will be future focused. You will be comfortable dealing with imperfect information, but quickly able to sort and rationalise what’s important. You will be agile and flex as needed to meet client and team priorities. You will care about the difference our work can make on businesses being more successful.
You will have 1-3 years of “transferable experience” and perhaps currently working in a Big 4, boutique consultancy or related discipline and are looking for your next step. You want to get closer to the client and work alongside principals doing interesting and challenging work.
We are open to applicants with diverse backgrounds and with junior, intermediate and senior levels of experience. The key is demonstrated IQ, matched with engaging interpersonal skills, and the right fit with our Tribe and with our values.
Want to know more?Email us today for the full job description.
2. Property Adviser
About us
TwentyTwo’s Advisory22 team is recognised as the “first choice” commercial property adviser in the market. We work alongside senior business leaders (CEOs, CFOs, COOs) and property teams to provide acute commercial property, transaction and portfolio advice across all asset types (office, industrial, retail, housing, special purpose) and across all New Zealand markets.
We have unmatched experience (built over the last 30 years) and a well-developed “playbook” of methodologies, tools and techniques to help clients make well-informed and robust property decisions, whether devising the direction of a property outcome, leasing new premises, entering into a development project, disposing of existing assets or managing day-to-day issues like rent reviews and renewals. We provide trusted, independent advice in a cluttered and increasingly conflicted market, applying strategic insights and tactical commercial acuity to ensure our clients get the best outcomes.
About the role
We need exceptional people to support the work we do. You will get to work closely with key people within large organisations with complex businesses and often complex and diverse property and infrastructure. You will get to engage with the leaders of these businesses (public, private, NFP) and help their organisations be more successful by ensuring their property decisions are aligned with their strategic intent and are commercially prudent. You will help create premises briefs, undertake market searches, develop stay/go analysis and financial models, prepare commercial term sheets, negotiate leases and development agreements, work alongside legal advisers and other consultants, resolve rent reviews and lease renewals and contribute to a wide range of property related advice. To support this work you will also develop roadmaps and other artefacts, facilitate workshops, engage with diverse groups, undertake market research, apply critical thinking and prepare reports and visual presentations that provide key insights. This role provides a diverse range of opportunities and experiences where the application of your skills will never be one dimensional.
About you
You will have a tertiary qualification in property or valuation, in something that made you think (like arts or law) or in accounting, economics or a related discipline. You will be curious. You will be future focused. You will be comfortable dealing with imperfect information but quickly able to sort and rationalise what’s important. You will be agile and flex as needed to meet client and team priorities. You will care about the difference our work can make on businesses being more successful.
You will have 3+ years of “transferable experience” and are perhaps currently working in a related field like property management, valuation, agency or property law and are looking for your next step. You want to get closer to the client and work alongside principals doing interesting and challenging work.
We are open to applicants with diverse backgrounds and with junior and intermediate levels of experience. Ideally you will have an REAA licence or be willing to study towards one. The key is demonstrated IQ, matched with engaging interpersonal skills and the right fit with our Tribe and with our values.
Want to know more?Email us today for the full job description.
2. Workplace Technology Adviser
About us
TwentyTwo’s Workplace Technology22 team is at forefront of reinventing how workplace technology is made customer-centric. We work with COOs, CIOs and business leaders to design and deliver integrated solutions for the workplace including hybrid working, virtual meeting experience, network alignment and security. Once the new solution is delivered, we provide ongoing support to ensure the technology remains fit for purpose, updates and upgrades are implemented seamlessly and UX remains front of mind.
We do this by helping businesses understand how their investment in new workplace technology (whether as part of a building project, new fitout or BAU) can better support the way work is done, how customers are engaged with and how productivity can be improved. Our positioning in the market is unique. We offer independent advice, agnostic of vendor or technology, and take a truly holistic view across property, people, work and technology, focused on what is “best for business”. We then design and deliver integrated solutions and provide change management and training support.
About the role
We need exceptional people to support the work we do. You will get to work closely with large organisations across diverse sectors often in the early stages of major investment in technology. You will get to engage with the leaders of these businesses and help them identify the technology they need to support their teams, engage with their customers and to ultimately transform their organisations by applying a fresh lens to their “technology” and a “whole of business” perspective.
You will help create strategies, plans, roadmaps and strategic artefacts by running workshops and interviews and engaging with stakeholders, undertaking indepth research and discovery, applying critical thinking and analysis and preparing reports and visual presentations that provide key insights. You will also provide design and delivery support and ongoing customer care to ensure their entire workplace technology suite of hardware, software and tools remain fit for purpose.
About you
You will have a background in workplace technology* or a related IT field. You will be curious. You will be future focused. You will be comfortable dealing with imperfect information, but quickly able to sort and rationalise what’s important. You will be agile and flex as needed to meet client and team priorities. You will care about the difference our work can make on businesses being more successful.
You will have 3+ years of “transferable experience” and perhaps currently working in a consultancy, sales, delivery or an in-house IT role and are looking for your next step. Ideally, you will have a tertiary qualification (in something that made you think), but ultimately you will be "passionate" about technology. You want to get closer to the client and work alongside principals doing interesting and challenging work.
We are open to applicants with diverse backgrounds and with junior, intermediate and senior levels of experience. The key is demonstrated IQ, matched with engaging interpersonal skills, and the right fit with our Tribe and with our values.
*Including virtual meeting technology such as Teams and Zoom, AV, wireless networks, LANS and WANS, structured cabling, security and CCTV, smart workplace technology, digital signage, visitor management.
Want to know more? Email us today for the full job description.
About the author
Loves anything blue. Avoids routine and making plans. Dreams of playing golf on the senior tour. Should have been a chef or writer. Fond of chardonnay and food (any kind).
Dean is one of NZ's leading property advisers with 30 years of consulting experience acting for major tenants and owner-occupiers. He specialises in property strategy, tenant representation, project leadership and major transactions. He also continues to provide peer review advice across all major projects.
At the forefront of guiding organisations in aligning place-based investment decisions with strategic intent, our Strategy22 practice continues to excel.
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