GWS EMEA Regional Director

Microsoft; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company seeks a seasoned manager to oversee real estate and facilities operations in London. This role requires extensive experience in managing budgets, leading teams, and developing strategic initiatives within a multinational environment. An ideal candidate will have a proven history of driving continuous improvement and innovation while managing relationships internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in multinational corporate environments.
• Demonstrable people management experience and ability to solve complex business challenges.
• Domain experience in corporate real estate or facilities management.

Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, and develop direct reports, ensuring performance reviews.
• Accountable for regional budget execution and financial reviews.
• Oversee construction and real estate projects, ensuring risk mitigation.

Skills

People Management

Budget Management

Client Relationship Management

Construction Project Management

Continuous Improvement

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration

Degree in Finance, Engineering, Architecture, or related field

Job description

Responsibilities (Text Only)

People Management: Manage, lead, and develop direct reports including clearly communicating performance standards; ensuring that all team members have annual, measurable priorities and that all employees receive timely, performance reviews against those commitments; and ensuring that team members have updated career development plans and receive appropriate career coaching. Drive culture, values, and behaviour consistent with an "exceptional" GWS team. Identify and execute best practices within the region to support the continuous development of global knowledge base. Cultivate a culture of collaboration and inclusion. Lead as an active people developer and build a high-performing team. Budget & Accountability: Fully accountable for the execution of the regional budget. Oversees the budgetary execution. Authorizes spending up to the approved limit. Makes business case for budget approval. Socialize the budget and impact with key stakeholders. Establishes budget by forecasting costs and updating spending targets in partnership with the Finance team and leadership. Reviews and approves financial models to understand specific development pro forma and valuation components. Reviews and approves associated capital plans. Drives budget planning, forecasting, and tracking for facilities in collaboration with finance stakeholders. Identifies and incorporates cost-effective solutions for the delivery of construction projects. Optimizes costs to align with the allocated budget. Client Relationship Management: Sets the vision when partnering within one's own team and other internal teams. Builds coalitions of support across the business and industry, and holds internal teams and external partners accountable for sharing information and meeting mutual commitments. Creates clarity to operate the business and manage the organizational resources. Partners with senior business group leaders to identify strategic requirements. Accountable for real estate & facilities commitments to the business based on a large-sized portfolio. Construction and Real Estate Project: Oversees and guides the team of construction and project management (e.g., letters of intent, contract negotiations). Sets the overall project strategy. Reviews and provides feedback internally to help ensure approval of projects and the mitigation of risk. Guides cross-team delivery in the review, due diligence, design, and entitlement to allow for the construction. Seeks and provides approval in line with corporate policy. Continuous Improvement / Innovation: Oversees continuous process-improvement programs. Coaches staff to act on program, account, and service-delivery feedback. Evaluates new global internal and external automation solutions and vendor recommendations to enhance efficiency and employee experience. Drives and delegates the development and implementation of efficient process updates and optimizations. Champions the innovation process and promotes initiatives for their team. Facilities and Services Management: Ensures the team delivers strategic lifecycle planning for employee services and facilities management for a select district. Work with business groups and partners to align facility services and performance levels with business goals and drivers. Partners with vendors to drive strategic initiatives, ensure technology is leveraged appropriately, and look across Facility Management performance at a regional level. Reviews the team's performance (e.g., customer satisfaction) and creates strategic performance goals. Seeks and provides approval in line with corporate policy. Partnership Management: Engages with and manages the relationship and performance with service providers on a quarterly basis. Establishes goals and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge vendors' performance. Resolves escalated issues from service providers. Creates contracts in partnership with Legal. Prepares Request for Proposal (RFPs), reviews vendor proposals, helps to select a vendor, and negotiates pricing in partnership with Legal and procurement teams. Develop long-term relationships with industry vendor-leading companies. Real Estate Evaluation: Reviews the team's location assessment results and recommendations and provides feedback. Oversees strategic acquisition opportunities and facilitates executive proposals aligned with regional strategies and new site acquisitions. Provides final approval for the evaluation. Real Estate Program Management: Program manages and owns a complex portfolio of regional real estate activities by leading the team in evaluations, selection, development, and management of real estate transactions for property, office, etc. Provides strategic guidance for the team's portfolio of regional real estate activities. Develops and presents regional long-term plans and defines resources needed to accomplish the plan. Updates for Microsoft stakeholders, government entities, economic development agencies, and new business partners. Oversees execution of strategic goals in partnership with global and regional leadership. Collaborates with Microsoft executives to update and operationalize the global strategy and communicates plan to team and stakeholders. Real Estate Transactions: Provides the team with oversight and guidance of all broker transactions (e.g., letters of intent, contract negotiations). Reviews and provides feedback internally to help ensure approval of projects. Oversees the team through the development, negotiation, documentation, and approval of complex acquisition agreements, business cases, and deal summaries. Guides cross-team delivery in the review, due diligence, design, and entitlement to allow for the construction. Seeks and provides approval in line with corporate policy.

Qualifications (Text Only)

Required Qualifications - Bachelor's or Masters or equivalent degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Construction/Project Management, Technology, Design or related field AND extensive experience of multinational corporate environment experience - Or equivalent experience - Successful track record working in a multi-national corporate environment and across international boundaries. - Demonstrable people management experience - Demonstrated experience working with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges - Demonstrated domain experience in corporate real estate and/or facilities management Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor'sOR equivalent degree in Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Construction/Project Management, Technology, Design,OR related field AND extensive experience of multinational corporate environment experience. - Master's OR equivalent degree in Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Construction/Project Management, Technology, Design,OR related field AND extensive experience of multinational corporate environment experience. This role will be based in either London or Dublin and requires in person attendance at the designated place of work for a minimum of 3 days per week, subject to change. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a requestvia the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.