Sr Mgr, Corporate Real Estate Transactions EMEA

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Position Overview

• Reports directly to the Senior Director of Global Real Estate, Facilities and Fleet; is responsible for integrating and delivering effective real estate transactions, project leadership and portfolio management for Baxter’s global office real estate portfolio in EMEA, APAC and the Americas
• Accountable for supporting and accomplishing Baxter’s global real estate strategies. Value-focused leadership for continual improvement to, and effective implementation of, real estate projects, processes, policies and procedures. Effective management of critical dates, transactions, and projects. Outstanding collaboration and integration with real estate collaborators, team members, and providers to optimise Baxter’s global real estate
• Provide global transactional real estate expertise and sound financial management. Deliver short- and long-term efficiency gains, cost savings, and guidelines for continuous improvement, transformation, and optimization of Baxter’s real properties.

Critical Responsibilities

• Promote, manage and lead strategy, governance, process/policies/procedures, standards, and operational excellence for worldwide real estate activities; including regional transactions, project execution, process improvement, governance, operations, resource strategy and management, compliance and reporting of same. Serves as the transactional real estate expert for offices Globally. Ensures sound financial evaluation and management which optimizes Baxter’s worldwide property office portfolio; driving and influencing results in a prod uctive manner.
• Identifies, develops and leads collaborator relationships and project teams; including consultants, contractors, providers and SME’s. Proactively collaborates with Baxter’s business groups and functions. Evaluates provider performance and ensures effective real estate operations, transaction management, innovative solutions and performance criteria are being met. Prioritizes and integrates CRE processes, policies, goals and objectives for collaborators, providers, projects and systems. Effectively improves Baxter’s real estate through continuous improvement of strategic real estate principles, operating mechanisms, transactions and collaborator interface; including business groups, property ownership and management, vendors and service partners .
• Identifies, manages and leads real property transactional strategies and solutions; including the acquisition, disposition, lease renewal, restructuring, renegotiation, subleasing, building and land due diligence, research and valuation. Provides oversight and collaborative support for the real estate capital and expense plan of global real estate projects. Identifies and accomplishes portfolio optimisation initiatives; delivering to corporate objectives and real estate goals.
• Work with the Global Real Estate Group at Baxter to formulate strategic solutions to effectively manage the real estate portfolio, deliver savings, and support corporate initiatives.
• Apply, and act as a source of, guidelines, process, tools, techniques and continuous improvement for real estate transactions, processes, task coordination and portfolio optimization. Refine and ensure policy compliance.

Strategic Solutions and Relationships

Develop and improve the role of CRE as a proactive driver of corporate success, collaborator, and shareholder value. Use the global real estate portfolio, operations, systems, teams, and vendor networks to lead, support, and provide effectively.

• Alignment of Global CRE portfolio and processes with business and corporate objectives
• Sourcing strategies and ongoing service evaluation; improvement of the operational platform, organisational design and delivery model;
• Negotiations; including transactions and vendors (e.g. RFPs, MSAs, SOWs, real estate contracts)
• Technology review and strategic improvement
• Portfolio and workspace optimisation; effective asset utilisation
• Strategic decisions for the worldwide property holdings, assets and management of same; including analysis and advisement (financial, organisational, implications, risks/benefits, impacts and operational excellence)
• Strategic relationship management; including effective communication and presentation skills

Operational Expertise

Experience in accomplishing global real estate transactional strategies. This includes defining operational systems, processes, and tactics for all CRE functional areas. These support company goals and enhance efficiency and financial outcomes, including:

• Results and objectives oriented leadership
• Portfolio management and optimization; scope includes manufacturing, warehouse, office, R&D, compounding, and mixed use real properties
• Global real estate process, site selection, transaction and project management expertise
• Excellent relationship management and communication skills (Internal and External); expertise in engagement, facilitation and influencing skills with senior management
• Global project vendor and partner management, financial management, site selection and approaches for project conclusion, incentives, entitlements & permits, portfolio and critical date management, negotiations and carrying out real estate projects and transactions

Experience, Education & Attributes

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Real Estate, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related field is required. Candidates must have 7 to 10 years of global industrial or commercial real estate experience in a corporate environment. Global Life Science experience preferred; EMEA experience required.
• Previous experience in the development, leadership and execution of global real estate; including property portfolio management, strategy, transactions, project management and collaborator engagement and leadership. Able to provide global oversight and expertise to effectively acquire, manage and dispose regional real property assets at strategic and tactical levels. Understanding of the full life cycle of real estate portfolio and project management.
• Effective financial competence and real property asset management and optimisation skills required; including understanding of GAAP, cash flows, impact to bottom line, capital, operating expense, capital markets, interest rates, investments, currency fluctuations, and fiscal/monetary policies which affect real estate and real estate transactions.
• Strong ability to partner across business groups and internal Baxter team members while building effective networks of external providers and resources. Prior management of enterprise-wide global projects and strong negotiating skills are critical. Understands how to define, implement and optimize property portfolios and transaction management at the strategic and tactical level. Ability to lead, direct and motivate others; managing multiple priorities and many projects across the company.
• Real Estate License or related professional designation required.

What are some of the benefits of working at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package including base salary and bonus
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance

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