Director, Real Estate Business Partner

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Job Category

Real Estate & Facility Management

Job Details

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Business Engagement

• Lead senior-level regional relationships with Operating Units (OUs) to positively impact their employees' performance, productivity, and connection
• Partner with OUs to understand their operational requirements as it relates to all areas of REWS, including workplace experience, workforce strategies, occupancy needs, space utilization levels, workplace strategies, facilities management, and critical environment requirements.
• Define real estate and workplace business strategies, and ensure alignment of the real estate portfolio and REWS services with OU and enterprise strategies

Business Recommendations and Solutions

• Act as REWS primary point of contact with OU; consolidate inputs from multiple REWS functions to develop real estate and workplace solutions that align with OU priorities and strategies
• Develop and present executive level REWS presentations, with input from required REWS teams
• Proactively engage with OU Leaders to review current and future office plan and attendance requirements; translate insights back to REWS teams
• Obtain approvals and key decisioning from OUs for REWS, inclusive of project and lease approvals and initiative decisions, in partnership with other REWS functions
• Integrate and share data analytics, reporting, thought leadership, industry standard methodologies and market insights to OUs to advise recommendations and decisioning

Salesforce and REWS Integration

• Provide clear communication to the REWS organization to ensure alignment for real estate and workplace strategies, recommendations, and delivery for OUs
• Provide management and oversight of REWS Business Partnering support team, as appropriate
• Integrate across REWS, Employee Success, BT, and other functions to provide comprehensive solutions to OUs for cross-functional initiatives (e.g., Workplace Experience)

Desired Skills

• Data analytics and financial foresight to analyze portfolios and develop business cases
• Proven experience engaging OUs and developing solutions in the context of the business
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage with executives
• Track record of leading cross-function and / or global teams
• Proven knowledge of Workplace, Real Estate, Project Management and / or Facilities Management (preferred)

Desired Behaviors

• Highly collaborative approach with clear and thoughtful communications and engagement
• Proactive, not reactive, approach and mentality to customer relationships and a bias toward action
• Innovative thinker driven by curiosity and a desire to constantly learn
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to lead through the unknown
• Leadership presence that can connect across levels, OUs and functions; ability to influence

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $181,300 to $262,900.

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