Matt Phillips Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Lead Americas real estate services team, providing coaching and mentoring, encouraging innovation and supporting learning within the organization
• Develop business-aligned real estate portfolio strategy throughout Americas in collaboration with senior leadership
• Provide thought leadership, incorporate leading practices to elevate real estate execution, and leverage technology to optimize the workplace

Tampa, Florida

• Trusted mentor across international geographies within and outside real estate team
• Develop and execute real estate portfolio strategy for fixed and serviced offices (3.5m SF, 100+ US and international locations), including CapEx and OpEx planning and budget management
• Elevated real estate strategic value to Americas business leadership via five (5) year future of work strategy aligned to workforce planning
• Led the Global Real Estate Center of Excellence, creating global consistency and innovation with international peers, successes include ESG site selection and launching L&D communities to upskill global team
• Partner with senior leadership and other internal organizations including Talent, Legal, Sustainability, Communications and Branding, and Technology on workplace enablement of business priorities
• Accountable for portfolio strategy and execution, real estate metrics reporting, site selection, RFPs, lease negotiations, capital planning, and project delivery

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa, FL

Tampa, FL

• Proactively managed a real estate portfolio including lease negotiations, reconfigurations, relocations, dispositions, and benchmarking against firm guidelines (Portfolio: 650K SF, 40+ locations)
• Developed market specific real estate strategies that capitalize on market conditions, tax incentives, maintain independence, align with firm strategy, and improve the firm’s brand and people experience
• Co-lead firm wide initiative to align real estate strategy to profitability, including capital planning, small office review, and becoming advisor to business unit leaders on client/office profitability opportunities
• Provided oversight for all construction and project delivery activities within portfolio
• Developed alternative delivery model including new workplace design and construction guidelines, reducing project costs by 50% and increasing speed to market
• Responsible for special projects including: the launch of new practices, short lead time projects, and mergers & acquisitions including the divestiture of PwC’s Public Sector practice (1,500 people)

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Designed and implemented a portfolio optimization function that generated $10M+ in cost avoidance and $2.5M in savings through business intelligence, analytics, and workplace consulting
• Created PwC’s space mix design standards, standardizing real estate design to maximize utilization of space
• Developed and executed change management plans to transform workplace behaviors
• Implemented framework to capitalize on lease flexibility options to right-size underutilized assets and gain leadership alignment on expansion locations
• International experience consulting PwC Caribbean firm to develop their real estate and workplace strategies

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Managed 297K RSF of real estate in Tampa, including a 222K RSF single tenant occupied facility
• Led execution of hoteling workplace strategy, including customer experience and operational support
• Successfully outsourced team to service provider with an 80% retention rate and zero missed deliverables

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Accountable for the Office Services operations from Baltimore to Miami including: overseeing outsourced operations, general facility maintenance, and project management for minor renovations
• Achieved $300K of cost savings in three years while managing 400K+ sq. ft. of real estate in the Southeast

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelors, Business- Marketing