Real Estate Regional Director, Canada, NE, E and SE

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 andmaintainclose 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 withBusinessUnits Finance and Legal tocrafttransactionand project strategies for implementation

• Develop location and site strategiesthatsupport businessobjectives(e.g. potential site consolidations use of co-working space front/back-officesplits etc.).

• Act asescalationpoint for real estate issues within assigned region and business units.

• Support implementation of GCRE policies & standards that lead to more effective assetutilization improved serviceperformanceand reduction of total real estate costs.

• Cultivate a bench of qualified real estate professionals withclearfocus on succession planning.

• Drivetransparencyin real estate decision-making and costsfor business unit and regional leaders around key real estate metrics which support businessobjectives.

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

• Manage stage-gated decision framework for transactionsprojects&tacticaldelivery of real estate services.

• Manage the annual operating budget for the sites in regionwithfocuson targeted savings initiatives.

• Support Portfolio and Workplace teams in shaping overarchingreal 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 keystakeholderand GCRE leadership.

• Communicate onand 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 workeffectively as a member of amulti-disciplinaryreal estateteam

• Ability to build and deliver compelling presentations

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

• Extraordinary written and oral communicationsskills10 years in corporate or commercial real estate with specific experience in areas of transactionsstrategy planningfinancialacumenand project management direct experience inthreeof thefourareas broader exposure and responsibilityrequiredfor third.

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

• Bachelorsdegree or equivalent experience MBA preferred

• Expertisein Microsoft Office specifically Excel and PowerPoint

• Travel at 10%