Principal Transaction Manager, Corporate Real Estate

Workday•Atlanta, GA

1d•$134,000 - $238,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Global Real Estate & Workplace team creates and continuously improves Workday’s productive and safe office environments while supporting our core values and distinction as a great place to work. With this critical contribution to the company in mind, we partner with other Workday departments to ensure that we are successful in delivering on this goal. We are looking for a Principal Transaction Manager to drive our most sophisticated Corporate Real Estate (CRE) deals. In this critical individual contributor capacity, you will lead transactions from the initial Letter of Intent (LOI) stage through to completion. Serving as the primary point of contact, you will coordinate with external brokers and internal stakeholders to ensure each deal is compliant, de-risked, and perfectly matched with our strategic objectives. Success in this position requires a project management mastery, along with strong financial and legal acumen. We are looking for a professional who excels at resolving ambiguity, managing global strategies, and transforming intricate data points into an actionable path forward.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive corporate real estate experience, successfully executing complex transaction management strategies, including commercial acquisitions, dispositions, and leases.
Bachelor's Degree is required
Proven expertise in managing and executing complex, high-value commercial real estate transactions on a global scale.
Strong history of creating significant financial value and delivering impactful, de-risked results for corporate portfolios.
Master-level project management skills with the ability to manage multiple fluid, high-stakes deals simultaneously.
Advanced understanding of real estate financial modeling, forecasting, transaction accounting, and value creation metrics.
Comfort operating in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments with the ability to carve a clear path forward amidst incomplete information.
Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively orchestrate, influence, and unite diverse internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to confidently navigate real estate contracts, LOIs, leases, and purchase agreements in partnership with legal counsel.

Responsibilities

Direct the full lifecycle of high-value, global commercial real estate transactions, ensuring all critical milestones are met on time and within budget.
Prepare, recommend, and implement comprehensive transaction strategies for both the acquisition and disposition of properties.
Develop and communicate highly sophisticated investment recommendations and deal summaries.
Track all transaction activity, driving clean and effective partnership to impacted stakeholders, both internal and external.
Create a checklist that incorporates all elements needed to make a decision that includes aspects from Operations, Safety/Security, Design/construction and sustainability. This should be shared with Brokers when reading out options and weighting them for selection purposes.
Partner closely with internal teams—including Design & Construction, Operations, Safety/Security and Legal—as well as external brokers to ensure total alignment on all transactional nuances.
Lead new initiatives, processes, standards, and operational plans that support and elevate broader functional goals.
Facilitate a clean, structured hand-off to Operations teams post-closing to guarantee minimal business disruption and on-time project execution.