Real Estate Director, Chubb Life

The purpose of the Real Estate Director Life role is to act as the customer relationship manager single point of contact and subject matter expert for the delivery of all Real Estate-related functions within the Life business and partnering with GCRE and Life Business leadership.

In this role you are responsible for the operation maintenance and management of the portfolio of properties within the Life business. 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 builds strong networks is comfortable with outsourced service providers and can maneuver through competing priorities applying a rigorous attention to detail without losing sight of overarching objectives.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for all Real Estate-related activities in the Life portfolio of 120 locations in 11 countries in a total of 1.5M SF

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

• Partner with GCRE Business Units Finance and Legal to craft transaction and project strategies

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

• Develop and lead implementation of efficient quality corporate real estate solutions (transaction management project management portfolio strategy) representing best-in-class practices and costs below benchmarked levels for our industry

• Provide regular on-the-ground guidance and direction to facilities management leadership.

• Support GCRE & in-region resources for lease administration & office administration

• Act as escalation point for real estate issues within the Life business.

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

• Work with GCRE to 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 and projects

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

• Partner with business leadership to shape overarching real estate strategy and conform 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 skills

• Resiliency and humor

• 10 years in corporate or commercial real estate with specific experience in areas of transactions facility management and project management direct experience in two of the three areas broader exposure and responsibility required for third.

• 10 years managing a team of independent contributors

• Expertise in occupier and investor real estate financial modeling required with direct knowledge of US GAAP lease accounting

• 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 30%