Description

The role will report to the Director of Real Estate (RE) for North America (NAM) and will work closely with the different Adecco business units and departments across the region.

The Real Estate Manager’s primary objective is to ensure that the entire Real Estates process, from establishing the business need to the invoicing, is efficient, data-driven, compliant, and well communicated internally. A key part of the process is first to understand the business requirements and then to find the best solutions to design and adapt the existing Portfolio.

The Real Estate Manager will work closely with our Leasing Administrator with all aspects of new leases, lease renewals and lease terminations.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· Managing the assigned Real Estate Portfolio of North America (US & Canada)

· Mediate between and internal customers and our Adecco branches.

· Negotiations of new terms and extensions, driven by data-analysis and Benchmarks from the NE region

· Assessing and supporting needs from the Business and deploying RE solutions according to the Region’s strategy.

· Leading, interacting with and steering internal and external stakeholders in the development from miscellaneous Project types: Openings, Closures, Merges, Refreshes and Rebranding

· Close collaboration with Real Estate Project Managers, Facility Management, and other daily Business issues & tasks

· Work with and challenges internal stakeholders during new lease and lease renewal decision making processes.

· Analyze, deliver and monitor relevant metrics for the organization, explaining and illustrating cause-and-effect relationships between business behaviors and financial implications.

· Reporting KPI’s on a regular basis to the head of RE NE, Finance, and other stakeholders

· Ensure contract compliance.

· Maintain the property inventory file ensuring all properties with leases expiries/break options within the next 12 months are monitored and managed in line with business strategy.

· Manages all challenges we may face with landlords and suppliers.

· Identify and eliminate non-value-added services / activities at every level within the business operation.

Essential Skills / Experience

· At least 5 years of experience within complex Real Estate organization with multi-dimensional portfolios across geographies.

· Proven track record of leases negotiations

· Good understanding of US (and possibly Canadian) tenancy law.

· The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with many simultaneous projects.

· Understand how the Property Management function operates, the opportunities and challenges that such an operation brings and how to minimize the risks and challenges to maximize effectiveness.

· Excellent communication skills in English both spoken and written

· Able to provide excellent customer experience, through performance and embedding a culture of continuous improvement

· Passionate about creating an environment that is oriented towards the highest ethical standards, trust, open communication, and creative thinking

· Strong familiarity with Real Estate management in the United States is a requirement.

· Familiar with the deployment of RE projects, from pre-projects to construction to the move.

· MS Office skills – particularly Excel

· Previous experience in developing and managing Real Estate contracts

· Experience in collecting, analyzing and presenting data

· Familiarity with property management systems required. Familiarity with CoStar is a plus.

· Occasional travel 5-10%

Personal Attributes

· Excellent interpersonal skills, Service minded

· Highly numeric

· Tenacious and determined, able to influence others through negotiation and communication

· Passionate about collaboration

· Ability and willingness to travel across the Nordics frequently