Real Estate Regional Director

The purpose of the Regional Director is to act as the customer relationship manager, single point of contact and subject matter expert for the delivery of all GCRE functions in your region and with stakeholders in your assigned business units in partnering with the GCRE and Regional Business leadership.    

In this role, you are responsible for the management of the portfolio of properties within your assigned region and business units.  You will build strong partnerships with real estate colleagues, corporate teams, client-facing external and outsourced professionals and leadership.  You will establish an effective stakeholder engagement approach that includes support functions (Finance, HR, Legal, Technology, etc.) and business segment leadership to understand the range of requests and requirements, to gain alignment, and to update stakeholders on project delivery.   

The successful candidate is an inspirational leader who can build strong networks, is comfortable with outsourced service providers, and could maneuver through competing priorities applying a rigorous attention to detail without losing sight of overarching objectives. 

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Build and maintain close working relationships with business leaders and regional/country executive management to ensure the Global Corporate Real Estate (GCRE) plan is aligned with top-level business drivers and initiatives. 

• Partner with Business Units, Finance and Legal to craft transaction and project strategies for implementation    

• Develop location and site strategies that support business objectives (e.g., potential site consolidations, use of co-working space, front/back-office splits, etc.). 

• Act as escalation point for real estate issues within assigned region and business units. 

• Support implementation of GCRE policies & standards that lead to more effective asset utilization, improved service performance and reduction of total real estate costs. 

• Cultivate a bench of qualified real estate professionals with clear focus on succession planning. 

• Drive transparency in real estate decision-making and costs for business unit and regional leaders around key real estate metrics which support business objectives. 

• Support coordination of Global Security policies and risk assessments in the region. 

• Manage stage-gated decision framework for transactions, projects & tactical delivery of real estate services. 

• Manage the annual operating budget for the sites in region with focus on targeted savings initiatives. 

• Support Portfolio and Workplace teams in shaping overarching real estate strategy and conforming local projects to it. 

• Act as the primary liaison to our landlords within your region. 

• Provide regular and insightful reporting to key stakeholder and GCRE leadership. 

• Communicate on and effectively manage risks as they arise. 

• Ability to conduct high-level creative thinking and strategic visioning 

• Ability to structure problems, develop an analytical approach for solutions and lead efforts to drive insights and synthesize findings into actionable recommendations 

• Ability to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary real estate team 

• Ability to build and deliver compelling presentations 

• Ability to effectively communicate findings and recommendations to senior executives and influence the enterprise to act appropriately to capture the value in such findings. 

• Extraordinary written and oral communications skills10+ years in corporate or commercial real estate with specific experience in areas of transactions, strategy planning, financial acumen and project management – direct experience in three of the four areas, broader exposure and responsibility required for third.   

• P&L acumen with a clear understanding of how to convert real estate needs into positive P&L outcomes 

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, MBA preferred 

• Expertise in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint  

• Travel at 10%