Philip Clayton was Director of Real Estate and Facilities, Bulgaria Telecommunications Company (BTC) from 2005 through to 2008 
Philip had overall responsibility for the management, rationalisation and consolidation of Real Estate, in excess of, 4,200 properties across Bulgaria. BTC needed to release capital from its Real Estate, as well as to scale down its operational processes, consequently releasing approximately 60% of the property portfolio. This was planned and scheduled by migrating personnel and technical equipment from properties and releasing a multi-million Euros property pool onto the market including modelling sale and leaseback options.
Philip managed th co-ordination and execution of valuations of standing assets and development sites including fixed line switches, mobile base station sites, offices, retail, logistics and leisure property and resulting in making recommendations for disposals and city consolidation programmes.
From starting the position in 2005, Philip achieved headcount efficiencies within the facilities, environment and safety team reducing staff from 110 to 51, with a noticeable improvement in levels of service and "real" year on year reductions in operating expenses by some 25% (2006) and 18% (2007) respectively.
Philip was responsible for selecting and managing the build out of 4 Call Centres (one being for international 3rd party customers) and refurbishment projects in excess of 60,000m2 and one data centre.