Real Estate - Director

Trinity Health•Livonia, MI

About The Position

The Real Estate Director provides leadership, guidance, direction, and accountability for performance, regulatory readiness, and operational results across large, strategic, diverse disciplines, teams, departments, or service domains. The role provides functional expertise and enables system- and region-level strategy, helping address business and regulatory issues while ensuring performance and service standards are met. It may oversee direct staff, including leaders with direct reports, or large and complex programs without direct reports. The Director advises health ministry, market, service area, and regional leaders on strategy and performance goals; enables collaboration and consistency across the organization; and guides and mentors colleagues involved in strategic planning. The role supports growth opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions, and leads standardization, optimization, vendor and contract labor management, and financial and operational strategy. It is accountable for functional leadership team success, governance over financials and staffing, communication across organizational leaders, and the measurement and reporting of key performance indicators and value delivery. The position requires at least five years of experience related to corporate or healthcare real estate portfolios, outsourced providers, or multi-state corporate/commercial real estate. Travel by air or ground may be required up to 50%, and a valid driver’s license is required where applicable. The role is subject to the physical and environmental conditions described for direct healthcare services and indirect healthcare/support services, including occasional exposure to hazards, biohazards, noise, infectious waste, interruptions, and stressful situations. It may involve work indoors or outdoors and travel to worksites with variable conditions. The position requires compliance with Trinity Health’s mission, values, policies, procedures, and Code of Conduct.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, real estate, accounting, finance, urban planning, architecture, or engineering; equivalent experience is considered.
At least five years of experience related to corporate or healthcare real estate portfolios, outsourced providers, or multi-state corporate/commercial real estate.
Valid driver’s license where required by assignment.
Ability to travel by air or ground up to 50%.
Ability to comply with Trinity Health’s Code of Conduct, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Ability to perform the physical activities described for the role, including computer use, manual dexterity, occasional lifting up to 30 pounds, and work involving standing, walking, bending, or variable worksite conditions.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), Healthcare Administration (MHA), or a closely related field; equivalent experience is considered.

Responsibilities

Advise, guide, and lead health ministry, market, service area, and regional leaders in developing strategies and achieving performance goals.
Enable collaboration across and within System Services, Service Areas, health ministries, and regions to support consistent, integrated strategy and operations.
Guide, train, mentor, and monitor colleagues and contribute to the development and implementation of strategic plans.
Provide leadership and advice on growth opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions.
Lead standardization, systemness, optimization of policy and process, and establishment of a national community of practice.
Oversee vendor and contract labor management, including centralizing strategy and optimizing spend.
Collaborate in system-wide strategy development and deployment of functional priorities and initiatives, and support regional compliance with those priorities.
Select, evaluate, and ensure the overall success of functional leadership teams.
Establish functional strategies and governance over financials and staffing.
Ensure communication among System Services, Service Area, health ministry, and market leaders.
Measure and report key performance indicators, metrics, and value delivery.
Implement and drive financial and operational strategies for the assigned function or service area.
Provide advice, guidance, and leadership for the colleague life cycle.
Maintain knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, compliance requirements, and organizational policies to support ethical conduct and safe work practices.
Address internal or external business and regulatory issues through system- and region-level strategy and functional expertise.
Identify, define, and solve complex problems affecting management and business direction.
Provide decision support and operations or optimization leadership, and manage risks affecting functional operations.
Oversee direct staff or large and complex programs.
Travel by air or ground up to 50% as required.