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What will your typical day look like?

Are you passionate about driving strategic transformation in a global organization? As Manager, Location Strategy Optimization, you will lead the day-to-day management and governance of our Location Strategy Optimization function. You will ensure disciplined execution, cross-functional alignment, and high-quality engagement with senior stakeholders while championing ongoing improvements and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Act as the primary owner and representative for Location Strategy Optimization, engaging with executive stakeholders and representing the function in leadership forums.
• Execution & Cross-Functional Alignment: Refine operational processes, prioritize initiatives, and ensure seamless alignment with global optimization objectives. Drive cross-functional alignment by orchestrating efforts to deliver results and resolve challenges.
• Governance & Operating Rhythm: Manage the governance calendar, council readiness, decision logs, and closure of actions. Provide end-to-end support for location-focused councils, including agenda setting, executive briefings, meeting facilitation, and follow-up.
• Performance Management: Define and track KPIs, generate insight-driven reports, monitor performance, and drive corrective actions. Prepare leadership reports and conduct post-implementation reviews.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Oversee the Risk, Issues, and Opportunities log, from intake to resolution. Lead scenario planning and contingency management for location-related risks, including organizing tabletop exercises and codifying lessons learned.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivate and manage senior stakeholder relationships across geographies and functions, communicating complex topics clearly and credibly.
• Change Management: Lead change initiatives to drive adoption of location strategy and hub development through playbooks, training, and communications. Guide and embed ongoing methodology enhancements.
• Innovation & Data-Driven Decision Making: Promote AI-enabled ways of working, automation, and data-driven decisions across the function.
• Talent Development: Coach and mentor team members, set standards for quality and stakeholder experience, and effectively allocate and prioritize workload.

About the team

The Global (DTTL) People team supports our talented, forward-thinking professionals with a broad range of development, well-being, and engagement programs to enhance their professional and personal journeys. We provide top-notch, leading-edge thinking and advisory support and partner with our businesses to ensure our professionals develop the right skills and talents to deliver on ambitious priorities. 

Why Join Us?
You’ll be at the forefront of shaping our global location strategy, working alongside senior leaders and diverse teams to deliver meaningful impact. We offer a collaborative culture, and the chance to drive innovation in a dynamic environment.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

• 7–10 years of experience in program/portfolio management, operations strategy, or HR within global, matrixed organizations, with a track record of leading multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, Strategy, Operations, HR, Economics, Public Policy, Data/Analytics, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and leading governance frameworks, operating models, and process documentation.
• Strong executive engagement skills, including stakeholder mapping, influencing, and presenting to senior leaders.
• Quantitative and financial acumen, including cost/risk/talent analysis and dashboard interpretation.
• Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Copilot/GenAI) and data storytelling required, business intelligence platforms (Power BI, Tableau) considered an asset.
• Working knowledge of risk, compliance, and structured triage/escalation processes.
• Experience leading through matrixed teams and dotted-line reporting relationships.
• Flexibility to occasionally work across time zones as needed.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $156,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth.  Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.