Senior Advisor in Planning at the Real Estate Department

Attendance

Hybrid

Job number

29280

Category

Senior Professional

Status: Permanent

Type of Contract

Permanent

Schedule: Full-Time

Full Time / Part Time?

Full-Time

Posting date

19-Nov-2025

Area(s) of interest: Operations

Location(s): Montreal

A career as a Senior Advisor in Planning at the Real Estate Department of National Bank means being responsible for supporting, prioritizing, and coordinating real estate projects that affect our entire real estate portfolio. This position allows you to have a positive impact on our organization, thanks to your ability to optimize processes, your positive leadership, and your effective management of priorities.

Your Job:

Deploy the real estate project planning strategy in collaboration with business sectors.
Participate in needs analysis, propose layout scenarios, and contribute to maximizing the use of spaces according to business objectives.
Advise and support partners in identifying needs and deploying real estate projects.
Stay up to date with industry’s best practices and continuously improve the planning process.
Anticipate and resolve issues efficiently and follow up with partners to ensure common objectives are achieved.
Contribute to enhancing user experience while ensuring financial objectives are met.

Your Team:

The real estate business strategy sector consists of several experts who work in an agile, proactive, and collaborative manner to seize opportunities and continuously improve processes. Within the sector, you are part of a team composed of two planning advisors, one market development advisor, and one principal advisor who report to the Senior Director and work in a matrix structure with several internal experts. The team is mainly responsible for developing the strategy and planning of real estate projects.

Basic requirements:

Bachelor’s degree related to the field and six years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree related to the field and four years of relevant experience.
Experience in needs analysis, space planning and layout
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and establish credibility with senior executives from different business sectors.
Comfortable in a role of influence and stakeholder management.
Excellent synthesis skills at all levels of the organization.
Strong organizational skills.
Proven track record of achievements and exceeding objectives.

Languages:

English, French

Reason to require this language: you will need to discuss frequently with our service providers or partners who speak a language other than French.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence Diversity & Inclusion Teamwork Cybersecurity Empathy Initiative Learning Agility Resiliency

Your benefits

In addition to competitive compensation, upon hiring you’ll be eligible for a wide range of flexible benefits to help promote your wellbeing and that of your family.

* Health and wellness program, including many options

* Flexible group insurance

* Generous pension plan

* Employee Share Ownership Plan

* Employee and Family Assistance Program

* Preferential banking services

* Opportunities to get involved in community initiatives

* Telemedicine service

* Virtual sleep clinic

These are a few of the benefits available to you. We have an offer that keeps up with trends as well as your needs and those of your family. 

Our dynamic work environments and cutting-edge collaboration tools foster a positive employee experience. We actively listen to employees’ ideas. Whether through our surveys or programs, regular feedback and ongoing communication is encouraged.

We're putting people first

We're a bank on a human scale that stands out for its courage, entrepreneurial culture, and passion for people.   Our mission is to have a positive impact on peoples' lives. Our core values of partnership, agility, and empowerment inspire us, and inclusivity is central to our commitments. We offer a barrier-free workplace that is accessible to all employees. 

We want our recruitment process to be fully accessible. If you require accommodation, feel free to let us know during your first conversations with us. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?

Come live your ambitions with us!

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For an environment that supports your career path

There are many varied opportunities for you to progress and develop, and move ahead in your career. This includes on-the-job learning and training, co-development and pairing with other employees, professional support and mentoring, internal career days or discussion forums with our leaders.

For an inclusive and diverse environment

We foster inclusion in an environment where each person’s unique qualities, whether visible or invisible, are celebrated and valued. We welcome all candidates! What can you bring to our team?