Real Estate Portfolio Planning Analyst
| Posting date: | 06 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £44,447 to £46,547 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 451087/8 |
Summary
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.
The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.
Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.
We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.
DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:
- Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
- Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
- Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
- Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
- Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession
Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:
• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments
• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption
• SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP
• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP
• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government
There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.
Supporting the strategy planning processes and analysis for a significant portfolio across the DWP Estate, this role will establish core links between our Real Estate Relationship Managers and our Business Intelligence Teams. It will play a critical role in blending data-driven knowledge and insights with strategic customer insights, channelling these to design and drive forward the Portfolio Strategy Plan.
Government Property Profession Career Framework (Link)
This role sits within the following:
- Job Family – Strategic Asset Management
- Core Role – Estates Strategy
- Level – Practitioner
Key accountabilities
- Understand the strategic drivers for Estates, aligning activities to contribute to the wider DWP organisation priorities to understand how the strategies and activities of the team create value and meet the diverse needs of all stakeholders
- Support evidence based decision making and shaping into the development of the Estates Strategic Portfolio Plan, using data and MI from the Estates team, Integrator and supplier partner network in conjunction with the intelligence gathered from our customers to determine our strategic view and optimal use of the estate
- Analyse business and portfolio data and insights to provide the strategic portfolio lens to translate and apply this information to shape and form an effective strategic portfolio plan. Understanding and incorporating the strategic drivers of Estates and our stakeholder
- Support the optimisation of the DWP property portfolio based on lease events, market opportunities and business requirements, consulting with others to ensure the potential impacts on end users have been considered
- Factor demand, scenario plan and analysis of the options available to optimising the estate, bringing together views, perspectives and diverse needs of stakeholders to gain a broad understanding of the issues surrounding activities and plans
- Develop long term strategic space needs in order to proactively address demand and ensure the best use of Portfolio space ensuring stakeholders and colleagues have a clear understanding of objectives, activities and timeframes
- Analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information to evaluate properties and assessing opportunities for their reallocation or disposition
- Develop site-level strategies, developing business cases with strategic rationale, costs, benefits, risks and impacts, to support informed decision making and secure stakeholder alignment and approval
- Apply problem‑solving to proactively identify and resolve project challenges as they arise
- Encourage joined up teamwork and collaboration in assisting project team in the early analysis of real estate needs
- Work in collaboration with internal DWP estates team, Integrator and Landlord, Leasehold Management (LLM) to facilitate the renewal strategies for properties across the portfolio, collaborating to share information, resources and support as required
- Analyses business challenges and opportunities that emerge across the Department through the development of feasibility management, financial appraisal and return on investment analysis
- Assist project team in the early analysis of real estate needs, challenging assumptions whilst being willing to compromise if beneficial to progress
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