Real Estate-Americas
About The Position
The Area Manager – Commercial Real Estate & Workplace Services is responsible for overseeing real estate and facilities operations across a defined cluster of office and R&D sites within the Americas Region. The role delivers localized leadership for real estate execution, site operations, and workplace experience while serving as a key connection point between internal business stakeholders, outsourced service providers, and the global real estate team. In addition to ensuring day-to-day operational excellence, the role contributes to global real estate initiatives in sustainability, workplace analytics, and PropTech enablement.
Requirements
- ~10 Years experience in real estate and/or facilities management
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Construction Management or Building Systems Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical or Civil).
- Interested in real estate and/or facilities management within office and/or R&D environments
- Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, AutoCad, Bluebeam and real estate/FM systems
- Fluent in English (written and verbal).
- Willingness to travel within Region US, Canada and Mexico (~20%) and collaborate globally across time zones
Nice To Haves
- Experience with space planning, lease support, or workplace transformation
- Familiarity with technical or R&D campus environments
- Exposure to sustainability programs and smart building systems
- Understanding of global real estate operations and cross-cultural collaboration
- Experience with workplace analytics platforms
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily site operations, ensuring safety, compliance, and an engaging employee experience
- Manage performance of outsourced facilities providers under a centrally coordinated Facilities Management model
- Support real estate transactions, site fit-outs, space changes, and occupancy planning
- Serve as the primary contact for local business leaders and end users
- Lead regional implementation of global workplace strategies and initiatives
- Promote adoption of global standards and support business continuity planning
- Champion sustainability efforts at the site level, including energy, water, and waste reduction
- Ensure compliance with internal ESG goals and environmental, health, and safety regulations
- Maintain accurate reporting on occupancy, service metrics, and operating costs
- Provide regional insights to global workplace dashboards and analytics tools
- Support the deployment and adoption of smart workplace and building technologies
- Assist in delivering small to mid-sized workplace and facility projects (e.g., renovations, relocations)
- Monitor vendor performance against SLAs, safety, quality, and compliance requirements
- Manage local operational expenses in line with established budget, support forecasting and planning
- Support capital projects including scope of work development, financial planning and stakeholder engagement from project conception through completion
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
