Real Estate Director

-; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB is seeking a Real Estate Director to manage leasing and buying transactions across its Canadian portfolio. This role involves building strategic relationships, overseeing real estate assets, and ensuring compliance with legal standards, with a focus on enhancing work environments across divisions.

Responsibilities

• Building strategic relationships with local division leadership.
• Overseeing acquisition and management of real estate assets.
• Leading and managing all real estate transactions.
• Ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Skills

Business Strategy

HSE Management

Budget & Performance Targets

Communications & Public Affairs

Portfolio Management

Finance

Systems

Sustainability

Workplace Strategy

Real Estate related Legal knowledge

Strong presentation skills

Job description

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world

This Position reports to:
National Real Estate Manager

The Real Estate Director manages leasing/buying transactions over the Canadian real estate portfolio. He/she is the main point of contact to provide internal businesses optimal working/production/warehousing environments. This role requires a dynamic leader who can build productive relationships with internal/external stakeholders and ensure compliance with company policies and relevant legal requirements.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Building strategic relationships with local division leadership to understand their future real estate related supply and demand requirements.
• Participating on the real estate strategic development plans for all business areas and divisions to enhance the local division facilities for both current and prescribed future needs.
• Overseeing the acquisition, development, and management of real estate assets to support business operations and growth.
• Being responsible of the action plan define with the business to ensure deadlines are met and communicated.
• Leading and managing all real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, and lease/sublease negotiations.
• Provide regular updates and reports to senior management on the status of ongoing transactions and projects.
• Hires and manages third party, consultants and professionals.
• Ensuring the analysis of legal documents related to real estate (deeds of sale, rental offers, leases, subleases, easements, and their amendments) to identify the rights and obligations of the parties.
• Ensuring the management of the process for exercising options provided in leases and subleases.
• Sending issues notices to tenants and subtenants, follows up on the required approvals to proceed with the exercise of options in compliance with legal deadlines.
• Managing the leasing of vacant properties owned or rented by the company, appoints brokers to find tenants, ensures that their activities are compatible with the purpose of the property, verifies the solvency of tenants, and negotiates the terms of the lease or sublease (rent, work, etc.)
• Being responsible for office space leasing files, including the exercise and negotiation of renewal options, the search for alternative locations, and the expansion of existing spaces. These tasks include appointing brokers, comparing alternatives, and, if necessary, negotiating leases, with the collaboration of the Legal Department.

Qualifications for the role :

• Business Strategy
• HSE Management
• Budget & Performance Targets
• Communications & Public Affairs\Portfolio Management
• Finance\Systems
• Communications & Public Affairs\Sustainability
• Workplace Strategy Real Estate related Legal knowledge
• Strong presentation skills

ABB values the dedication, commitment, and expertise of our employees. As an Employment Equity Employer, we believe in an inclusive and diverse workforce. We are committed to ensuring that our policies and practices align with the Employment Equity Program, aiming for a workforce that is truly representative of the four designated groups:

• Women
• Indigenous peoples
• Members of visible minorities
• Persons with disabilities

ABB is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities and encourages candidates to self-identify during the application process.